by Many of the best details from Jeff Bezos’ spectacular 60th birthday party have been provided by his indiscreet guests. This despite the fact that Beyoncé, Bill Gates, Oprah et al were instructed to put their phones in sealed pouches upon arrival at the billionaire businessman’s Beverly Hills mansion.
We hear that caviar and McDonalds were on the menu (the Amazon founder and aerospace entrepreneur worked at the fast food chain as a 16-year-old) and that the party’s décor included a covered photobooth as a tribute to the businessman’s first office.
But what no one in attendance could resist posting on social media was a picture of his outfit. Dressing for the prescribed ‘space age’ theme allowed for some very varied (but always very expensive) interpretations.
Paris Hilton dazzled in a heavenly crystal Oscar de la Renta gown, one of seven gowns worn by the heiress at her wedding in 2023.
Ivanka Trump received a vintage Roberto Cavalli dress with a spaceship wing beaded bodice. Katy Perry’s metallic contoured forehead had grown prosthetic antennae.
At least half a dozen of designer Judith Leiber’s novelty UFO detector bags have been spotted – new at $5,000 a pop.
But it was the host who attracted the most attention. Not Bezos – we don’t know what he wore, let’s take a silver suit. Rather his wife, Lauren Sánchez, who made sure she was unmissable in a hot red Laura Basci dress and her own custom Leiber rocket bag.
Sánchez staged a photo shoot in her boudoir before the party, surrounded by a glam squad of four for the occasion. ‘Getting ready is sometimes the best part of the night,’ she told her 398,000 followers on Instagram.
Sánchez’s appearance as a rich woman is completely visible. This is not a style of stealth wealth – the kind of subtle luxury we’ve come to associate with the billionaire crowd on TV Succession. I don’t care about the space bling (a-ling a-ling a-ling) she has.
It is Sánchez, 54 years old, who has been engaged to Bezos since the spring of 2023, and it seems that he has brought this private billionaire out of his lair. Before going public with the former news anchor in January 2023, Bezos was married to novelist MacKenzie Scott for 25 years and rarely stepped off a red carpet.
Sánchez is the main planner of the party, the launch pad of his new social life – she has achieved fame and fortune that he had never been interested in before. “She’s a glimpse into Jeff’s life,” says broadcasting billionaire Barry Diller, speaking to him Vogue.
The Bez-Chezes (the portmanteau of course?) maintained their own super-rich club, surrounding themselves with other style-adjacent tycoons – various media agency owners and fashion brand heads (including Tommy Hilfiger) were present, along with the Hilton and Kardashian Dynasties.
“Jeff Bezos has long been drawn to star power, but his appetite for celebrity seems to have increased since his relationship with Lauren Sanchez began,” said one Hollywood social insider. The Telegraph.
They are in all the right places – the attraction of the guest list for his elegant birthday is evidence: air, famous billionaires, technology lords, heiresses and political dynasties – together, the center of power in America today.”
The Vanderbilts of the Golden Age confirmed their status with European couture, pretending to print black and white images in the columns of early society – Sanchez and Bezos are on a similar formula today, aligning themselves with fashion power players to gain visibility ensure
Bezos and Sánchez spent their first public summer together courting friends like Leonardo DiCaprio on Koru, the ex-boyfriend’s sailing yacht, and the largest in the world. They made their first red carpet appearance as a couple, attending Hollywood parties after the Oscars and at the premiere of the new lord of the rings on Amazon Prime.
The couple invited an American Vogue into her life for the December issue – Sánchez posed in (yet another) gem-encrusted red dress, by Dolce & Gabbana, and a pose wrapped around Bezos’ engineering achievement, his 10,000-year underground clock, dug under the Sierra mountains Diablo. “Wouldn’t it be nice to have a Halloween party [in] here?” she thought.
When the couple sat front row at the Dolce & Gabbana fashion week show in Milan earlier this month, they embodied the internet’s favorite fashion trend: the so-called “mob wife” aesthetic. Echoing the leather, diamonds and fur worn by characters such as Carmela Soprano, Sánchez saw the time to emphasize her rich and porous aesthetic and ran with it.
“The crowd wife aesthetic is drama,” says a spokesperson for fashion website Zalando. “It taps into various trends seen on the spring 2024 runways including faux fur, animal print, and underwear as outerwear. It’s the antithesis of minimalism.” There is definitely more to this couple’s orbit.
It is this spirit and fun that has helped the couple capture the attention of the fashion and celebrity crowd. Who doesn’t want to go to a billionaire’s party?
After that, to their wedding. The date is unknown, but rest assured that no expense will be spared.
Sánchez will no doubt be developing her look further, as she works with her stylist Kelly Johnson (Jennifer Lopez’s former stage costume designer) to develop her dream wardrobe for a billionaire’s wife. Spending your wealth is back. And Sánchez is the woman who will leave.
