Anna Wintour is grateful to have a friend in Lauren Sánchez Bezos .

After Lauren and Jeff Bezos were revealed as the primary donors funding the 2026 Met Gala —sparking some backlash online—the former Editor-in-Chief of Vogue shared her two cents.

"I think Lauren is going to be a wonderful asset to the museum and to the event," Anna—for whom the 2026 Gala will mark the first with her successor Chloe Malle handling the reigns— told CNN Nov. 23 . "[I'm] very grateful for her incredible generosity, and she's a great lover of costume and obviously of fashion, so we're thrilled she's part of the night."

The Amazon founder and his wife’s roles in next year’s Gala—the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s biggest fundraising event every year—were announced along with the event’

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