2026 Met Gala: Beyoncé and celebrities to walk the red carpet
Protesters collect outdoors the Met Galarevealed at 22:07 BST
Kali Hays
US enterprise reporter
The Met Gala is drawing its justifiable share of backlash this yr, with protesters gathering outdoors.
It’s a response that is been constructing for weeks – primarily over the sponsorship and involvement of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his spouse Lauren Sanchez Bezos.
Last month, vivid red posters started exhibiting up at bus tops, subway stations and on the partitions of Manhattan’s ubiquitous development websites calling for folks to “boycott the Bezos Met Gala.”
On Friday, protesters positioned tons of of bottles of what was apparently urine inside The Met, and installed, external a basket of empty water bottles outdoors the museum, each in obvious reference to claims by Amazon workers over the years that they’re so overworked they can not take satisfactory toilet breaks.
When the museum revealed in February that the Bezoses weren’t solely sponsoring the occasion, however can be honorary chairs, some members of the vogue trade elite had been dismayed.
Federico Marchetti, former chief govt of the Yoox Net-a-porter group, stated on-line: “Jeff Bezos, please start paying the fair amount of taxes before sponsoring anything you want.”
Image supply, Reuters
