Lucy Hoff

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128 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 27 May

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Today in Focus · Why the Bezos-backed Met Gala is so controversial – The Latest · 4 May 2026 podcast

but there was a lot of backlash on the left and the right that she just didn't need to go really they don't pay for their tickets uh in their defense but it's it you know the problem is is it is it is a it is the whole thing is the performance it is about how good you look it's about clothes and the clothes cost money and so the optics just you know however you sort of try and frame it attending is just not necessarily the right optics if you do do align yourself as a sort of socialist

Well, I mean, it's interesting because there is an idea that it is very exclusive and very elitist.

And it's all those things.

It's invite only.

But at the same time, she is a gatekeeper, but also she needs the right people there.

It's all about optics.

It's about having... Optics is about securing financial backing.

And Jeff Bezos is kind of at the back of that.

And wealthy people have always...

had their sort of playthings, there's kind of a Gatsby element to it, right?

So if you think of a culture institution, it's always got slightly murky benefactors.

And we know that from sort of the Sackler involvement in lots of museums.

Exactly.

And, you know, in many ways, he's just another kind of version of that.

The function of the gala itself, you know, it's a grotesque pageant.

But this kind of this very sort of nefarious sort of race pipeline between the benefactors and the museum is not sort of unique to fashion.

It's sort of a sort of striking representation of the way that rich people co-ops arts and sport and culture.

And at the moment, the big tech has the money.

Now, you know, this earlier this year, Mark Zuckerberg was on the front row at the Prada exhibition.

No, no, no.

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