Silicon Valley's Cultural Cosplay at the Met Gala Is a Dangerous Smokescreen
After many years of Silicon Valley nudging its way into Vogue's Met Gala, this week's edition marked the completion of tech's semihostile takeover of the fashion magazine's annual party to raise money for the Costume Institute at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art.
This year, the event's co-chairs were Amazon founder and tech billionaire Jeff Bezos and his wife, Lauren Sanchez, who had reportedly paid $10 million for the honor. Also in attendance were executives from Meta, Snapchat, OpenAI and others, which has ignited outrage -- especially among those who consider the Met Gala not a vulgar display of excess, but the most exclusive and stylish event on fashion's calendar.
What next? Will the 2027 theme celebrate AI slop? Will Mark Zuckerberg fund a rebrand so that next year we'll be talking not about the Met Gala, but the Meta Gala? Why, oh why, would Anna Wintour, global...
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