The 2026 Met Gala raised a record $42 million — and a lot of questions. With Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez Bezos as honorary co-chairs, a labor organizer tackled outside, and a rival ball in the Meatpacking District, fashion’s biggest night forced a long-overdue reckoning.
While the Met carpet unspooled uptown, hundreds gathered in the Meatpacking District for the Ball Without Billionaires — a counter-event organized by the Service Employees International Union, the Strategic Organizing Center, and the Amazon Labor Union, co-hosted by fashion editor and stylist Gabriella Karefa-Johnson and “Abbott Elementary” actress Lisa Ann Walter.
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