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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Ellie Muir

Lauren Sánchez Bezos cozies up with Anna Wintour to unveil Met’s new Costume Art exhibit amid gala backlash

Lauren Sánchez Bezos appeared all smiles alongside her friend Anna Wintour in New York today to unveil the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s new Costume Art exhibit ahead of the Met Gala this evening.

Sánchez Bezos, whose sponsorship of this year’s star-studded fashion event and accompanying exhibit with her billionaire husband Jeff Bezos has proved controversial, was welcomed to the stage at a press conference Monday morning by Wintour, the gala’s chair since 1995, who credited Sánchez Bezos as the only person in the room who could “wear a bias cut dress while banking a helicopter.”

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