Overview
- The Met Gala, which took place Monday in New York, saw Lauren Sánchez walk the carpet with Anna Wintour while Jeff Bezos skipped the step photos and attended the dinner.
- Activists from Everyone Hates Elon plastered boycott posters and said they placed about 300 bottles with urine‑like liquid inside the Met to spotlight reports that some Amazon drivers resorted to bottles during shifts.
- New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani said he would not participate, and Zendaya and Meryl Streep were absent as attendance choices became statements for some invitees.
- News outlets reported Bezos and Sánchez contributed about $10 million, and Wintour publicly praised Sánchez as a generous resource for the museum.
- The gala opened the Costume Institute’s Costume Art exhibition and the new Condé Nast Galleries, keeping focus on fashion‑as‑art even as debate over billionaire influence in culture intensified.