Meta Gala Aftermath: Who Won, Who Lost, and Who Cares?

Nicole Kidman, Lauren Sánchez Bezos and Anna Wintour met gala 2026
Anna Wintour & Co. raised $42 million this year; I guess that’s why you charge certain people $1 million a ticket? Photo: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue
Lauren Sherman
May 5, 2026

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Forget about the hundreds of evocative water bottles that protestors snuck around the Costume Institute to protest Jeff Bezos’s patronage, or that Lauren Sánchez Bezos referred to the Metropolitan Museum of Art as “the gallery,” or that Blake Lively showed up in the most atrocious gown ever made just hours after settling with Justin Baldoni. (I don’t want to even tell you the brand because, honestly, she deserves all the blame.) Anna Wintour & Co. raised $42 million this year; I guess that’s why you charge certain people $1 million a ticket? Anyway, this is supposed to be the Super Bowl of Fashion, right? How did we do?