Lucy Hoff

Anna Wintour was quite involved in that side of things, helping her pick her dress.

And so over the past eight or nine months, there's just been a kind of very sort of gradual sort of influx from the Bezos side

couple into the fashion industry and we've kind of reached it's kind of the tip of the iceberg here which is funding or partially funding the Met Gala and it's thought that they are donating 10 million dollars I don't know the exact figure and there's kind of different figures kind of on the internet but it's a lot of money basically

It has come at, I mean, the timing is terrible, obviously, with laying everybody off at the Washington Post.

So he's not, he's obviously not shy about his involvement in it.

And some people describe the Zomet Gala as the big box clout store, which is kind of the idea that these people are kind of vying for cultural relevancy.

The thing about fashion is people have an idea of it and it seems kind of rarefied.

It seems exciting and exclusive.

It's

It's something that even if you've got all the money in the world, you can't necessarily access it.

And I think that's kind of what these people with big money, what they want is the one thing they can't, apart from happiness, they can't necessarily get into that world.

And they like to be associated with something quite rarefied and exclusive like that.

the whole thing is it's a right with symbolism because it is obviously all about optics and it's about you know amazon are selling clothes as well and this this sort of circular aspect of this is kind of quite sort of startling and that's kind of what makes it sort of feel so shocking because at the same time it's in the middle of new york which you know is obviously is a wealthy city but there's there's great growth inequality there and you have this one night where there's people always people kind of walking up these steps because essentially it's just a

It's some steps.

People walk up the steps and they go into a room.

We don't see them.

They have a dinner and they have a dance and they pay an extraordinary amount of money for it.

But they do, big people go, like Kamala Harris went last year.

I mean, she went round, she slipped in the back, but she still went.

And people do say yes to it.