Jeff Bezos’ New Year’s Disco Style Hits a Nerve

 

In 2012 he served as the honorary chair of the most prestigious fashion event of the year, the Metropolitan Museum’s Costume Institute gala benefit, wearing a tuxedo alongside co-chairs Carey Mulligan, Anna Wintour and Miuccia Prada. That event, for which Amazon contributed a sizable contribution estimated at $1 million, was a kind of debutante ball for Mr. Bezos in the world of fashion. In the intervening years he appears to have developed a growing interest in his image, as shown by a more toned physique and trimmer tailoring. In 2020, he sat front row next to Ms. Wintour at a Tom Ford fashion show, wearing a suit and knitted polo.