Here's what we know ahead of the Bezos-Sanchez wedding
After a stormy evening in Venice, CNN's Melissa Bell explains why details remain closely guarded ahead of the Bezos-Sanchez wedding.
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Business Insider
29 minutes ago
- Business Insider
I was in Venice for George Clooney's wedding. Jeff Bezos' feels completely different — and not in a good way.
Christine Matthey is a Swiss-Italian art gallery owner. Business Insider interviewed her in Venice, where she lives, ahead of Jeff Bezos' wedding to Lauren Sánchez. This interview has been edited for brevity and clarity. I was living in Venice when George Clooney married Amal Alamuddin. The mood in the city was nothing like it is now, for the wedding of Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez. To start with, George Clooney is not Jeff Bezos. Bezos is a friend and donor to Donald Trump. Ivanka Trump is even here for the wedding. For that reason, among others, I'm not happy with Jeff Bezos being this close to my house, or in Venice at all, for that matter. It's not only because of politics, but also because of Amazon, what he represents, and the potential damage his wedding is bringing to this city. I grew up in Venice until I moved to Switzerland for school. I now live here for six months of every year, and I care about the city's preservation. One major concern is the "moto ondoso," or "wave motion." It refers to the damage caused by the yachts, water taxis, and other boats in the canals, which erode the foundations of Venice's historic buildings. It's causing real damage to the city. Bezos has hired fleets of water taxis. It adds to the problems of a city already in danger. He says he has donated 3 million euros to three local institutions, but what does 3 million euros mean to him? (Editor's note: The wedding will use around 30 of Venice's 280 water taxis, according to Venice city officials.) Sure, the wedding brings money to the local economy. But I don't think the long-term damage is worth the short-term gain. Around San Marco, many people depend on tourism. They sell expensive goods to wealthy visitors. I imagine they're happy to see celebrities, and less concerned with the politics. But for young Venetians, it's a different story. Wages are low. Housing is nearly impossible to afford. It's hard to be OK with a billionaire wedding in the middle of all of these difficulties. That's part of what is fueling the protests. On Monday, I passed by San Marco Square just as Greenpeace unfurled a huge banner with Bezos's face. It read: "If you can rent Venice for your wedding, you can pay more tax." I've also been following the "No Space for Bezos" movement on Instagram. As of Thursday, I haven't noticed major disruption. But I'm nervous. I have an art gallery near the Arsenale, and I just hope I can get to it this weekend without being blocked by police because of the wedding. The wedding has divided Venice. For me, I sit in the camp of thinking the protesters are brave, especially so in a country where the police can be tough. They're putting themselves on the line, unafraid of being hurt or brutalized, to make their point. And honestly, I admire them for it.
Buzz Feed
34 minutes ago
- Buzz Feed
Jeff Bezos Wedding Protestors Throw Dummy Into Canal
I'm sure you're aware of all the controversy surrounding the Bezos wedding. If you're not in the loop, billionaire* Jeff Bezos is expected to marry his longtime partner Lauren Sánchez today in a lavish ceremony in Venice, Italy. Numerous celebrity guests are in attendance, including Leonardo DiCaprio, Kim Kardashian, Oprah Winfrey, and Orlando Bloom, to name but a few. According to multiple outlets, many of these attendees rocked up to Venice in their private jets. In the run-up to the wedding, numerous residents in Venice have protested the multimillion-dollar affair, namely due to the fact that overtourism and climate change have caused the city to slowly start sinking. Things started out with numerous people holding up signs that read things like 'No Space for Bezos' and 'If You Can Rent Venice For Your Wedding, You Can Pay More Tax.' However, things reached a new level on Wednesday, June 25, with protestors throwing a life-sized Jeff Bezos dummy into the Venice Grand Canal. The dummy was dressed in an Amazon worker's jumpsuit and pointedly clutched an Amazon box while holding fistfuls of cash. Reacting to photos of the dummy online, one person wrote, 'The Venetians have taken these protests to an art form. Absolutely sensational stuff, great work.' Elsewhere, fans were left cringing as they reacted to photos of Lauren seemingly waving out to a crowd of protestors as she hopped onto a boat with Jeff. Let me know what you think in the comments.
Vogue
38 minutes ago
- Vogue
David Koma Resort 2026 Collection
David Koma had just returned from Stromboli, where he'd been on set shooting a Blumarine lookbook, when it was time to present his own resort collection in London. Lace, pearls, and sugar-rush pastels—signatures more closely linked to Blumarine than to the graphic, femme-fatale-coded vision of his namesake womenswear—cooed from the rails of his Shoreditch studio. The influence was fun to speculate on, but Koma was sure to dismiss any direct comparisons between his respective brands. 'I always swing between extremes,' he explained. 'Last season was tough, whereas this time, I wanted to see how soft I could take it while still making the clothes feel strong and empowering to women. I wanted to use femininity as a sort of weapon.' Koma set forth on his mission with a rewatch of the hit series Mad Men—the 1960s remain his favorite decade in fashion—and found inspiration in its glamorous female leads, who, beneath their sweet floral-print dresses, were often more hardcore, and hardened, than their male counterparts. He sought to channel that tension into clothes where flowers became a kind of battledress: chrome stems clutching bikini bottoms and tracing babydoll dress cutouts; three-dimensional silk roses puncturing nude-illusion inserts on draped and deconstructed satin gowns. Elsewhere, circles of studded denim and bonded lace were hand-appliquéd across bralettes, pant sets, and boudoir-ish minidresses to form barbed clusters. The designer's notes might well have read: 'You can look, but you can't touch.' It would, of course, be a struggle to imagine Betty Draper and her peers in looks as revealing as these, but fashion is in a different place now. For example: Koma transformed the notion of tweed two-pieces into sequin-scattered cocktail dresses, and twinsets and pearls into pearl-encrusted hotpants in buttercup yellows and powdery lilacs. This lighter-than-usual palette was informed by the American pop artist Mel Ramos, whose 2014 lithograph Maidenform Molly—in which a striped figure is depicted with an absent square at her bust—influenced this season's hazard-tape leather skirts and T-shirt dresses with stark holes in the torso that, in Koma's words, 'mimicked a television.' The designer has spent a lot of time replaying the past, but his next task will be to consider his own: he's spent 15 years in the business, and should celebrate the milestone away from a screen—that includes a viewfinder in Stromboli.
