Commentary: This year's Met Gala proved one thing: The real devil who wears Prada is Jeff Bezos

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Apparently not content with bankrupting Sears, Toys R Us, Radio Shack and countless other businesses; buying and then maiming the Washington Post; and leading the Tech Bro right turn to MAGA, Jeff Bezos did his level best to ruin this year’s Met Gala.Simply by being a part of it.The normally frothy run-up to Monday evening’s annual over-the-top fashion fundraiser for New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute was less about which A-listers would attend and who they’d be wearing and more a moratorium on Bezos and his wife, Lauren Sánchez Bezos, who sponsored the event and served as honorary co-chairs.Not even a tie-in with the much-anticipated and box-office-gratifying debut of “The Devil Wears Prada 2” (which opens with Meryl Streep’s Miranda Priestly exiting what appears to be the Met Gala) could cut through the news of anti-Bezos protests and calls for boycotts.Guerrilla activist group Everyone Hates Elon plastered New York with anti-Bezos signage and on Friday, activists placed 300 bottles filled with fake urine inside the museum, drawing attention to complaints by Amazon workers that they are not allowed to take bathroom breaks.Entertainment & Arts The best looks from the 2026 Met Gala, including Heidi Klum, Rihanna, Beyoncé, Kylie Jenner, Kim Kardashian, Sabrina Carpenter, Emily Blunt, Emma Chamberlain and Connor Storrie.(Though honestly, these could have also served as fashion satire — many of the outfits worn by gala attendees appear to defy the ability to heed nature’s call.)New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani declined his invitation, saying that he wanted to focus his time on “affordability.” Streep got dragged personally into the fray; her absence, as well as that of others including Zendaya, had some wondering if certain members of the glitterati were too incensed by the Bezos-ification of the event to attend.

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