"The Way I Rescinded My Like When I Saw The Sponsor": The Internet Is NOT Happy That Jeff Bezos And His Wife Will Be Sponsoring The Met Gala 2026

Over the past 2 decades, the Met Gala has gone from a fancy depository fundraiser to a immense taste infinitesimal that draws the biggest celebs and designers successful the world, and, astir recently, influencers too. The celebs dainty the carpet similar their ain idiosyncratic catwalk, and we radical astatine location justice each look (don't enactment similar you don't!). At this point, it's easy the biggest and astir important manner lawsuit of the year, rivaling lone the Oscars successful glitz and glamour.

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And earlier this week, The Met announced that The Costume Institute's yearly accumulation and Met Gala taxable is "Costume Art."

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Using an representation of a statuette of the Greek goddess Nike arsenic portion of its artwork design, The Costume Institute described the accumulation as: "Focusing chiefly connected Western creation from prehistory to the present, the amusement volition research creator representations of the dressed body, pairing fashions and artworks from the Museum’s immense postulation to item the inherent narration betwixt covering and the body."

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The video announcement posted connected some The Met's and Vogue's Instagram accounts highlights that the accumulation is being sponsored by Jeff Bezos and his wife, Lauren Sánchez Bezos.

Traditionally, large manner houses person been the superior sponsors of The Costume Institute's yearly accumulation and the Met Gala. Like past year, erstwhile Louis Vuitton sponsored "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style."

Needless to say, the announcement of Bezos and his woman sponsoring this year's taxable has been met with a less-than-enthusiastic absorption online. Over connected X, the quality was met with a batch frustration:

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While implicit connected The Met's Instagram account,* radical successful the comments were outraged astatine the Bezoses involvement, with galore saying that it was ruining the full Met Gala for them:

*Vogue's Insta comments seemed similar they mightiness person been scrubbed of thing mentioning the Bezoses. 

Alright, I americium funny what you guys deliberation astir the Bezoses being the sponsors. Was it the incorrect telephone connected The Met and Vogue? Or bash you deliberation radical are making excessively overmuch of the happening astir it since affluent radical donate to museums each the time, and astatine slightest this is going to a hugely fashionable exhibit? Or possibly you already deliberation the Met Gala is an elitist event, truthful having Jeff and Lauren arsenic the sponsors isn't a stretch? Well, fto america cognize successful the comments below!!!