Just one day after longtime Vogue chief Anna Wintour announced she would step away from her role as editor in chief of the U.S. edition, the magazine published a digital cover story featuring Lauren Sánchez (now Lauren Sánchez Bezos) in her wedding dress, with details about her final fitting and the dress itself.
The piece opens breathlessly: “The bride is corseted and cosseted in her high-necked, hand-appliquéd Italian lace wedding dress on the grounds of an 18th-century brick villa outside of Milan. ‘I’m gonna cry!’ says the soon-to-be Lauren Sánchez Bezos.”
The magazine had previously featured the bride in a lavishly-photographed 2023 piece appropriately titled, “Lauren Sánchez Is Looking to the Future.”
It’s not just Vogue. The New York Times has published at least nine pieces about the so-called “wedding of the century” between the Amazon founder and the former Extra anchor in the past week, with titles such as “Italian Destination Weddings Are Having a Moment — Again,” “At Bezos’ Venetian Wedding: Buzz, Bling and Backlash,” “The Bezos-Sánchez Wedding and the Triumph of the Tacky” and, of course, “Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez Tie the Knot.”
The cost of the wedding has been estimated at up to nearly $50M, infuriating locals and activists who claim Amazon pays minimal taxes in European countries and point to Bezos’ use of his extreme personal wealth to effectively take over parts of the historic city, disrupting daily life.
Still, the wedding seems to have gone off without a hitch. The bride took to Instagram to share a happy shot from the nuptials that included her wedding dress, announcing her name change and at least partially stepping on Vogue’s digital exclusive.
