Lauren Sánchez Bezos doesn’t just pilot helicopters, she also shares fashion inspo on the fly.

When Alice + Olivia founder, creative director and CEO Stacey Bendet was working on her spring 2026 presentation to be held Manhattan’s Surrogate’s Court, the new Mrs. Bezos sent her a vintage Vogue image of ten models in jacquard dresses posing in an elegant blue Gilded Age room. “She goes, you have to recreate this,” Bendet told Alexa.

“I was staring at this set, trying to figure out what to create in the Hall of Records under the staircase,” said Bendet, referring to the famous double-flight marble staircase in the Beaux-Arts-style edifice. “And when I saw that image, it was like this magical moment. I was like, ‘Are you reading my mind?’ We recreated the set.”

On Saturday, the designer sho

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