As I’ve now said repeatedly, I still believe that Lauren Sanchez and Jeff Bezos’ wedding was the final straw for Anna Wintour. This is an increasingly popular theory too – Wintour has completely avoided featuring any MAGA cultist or Trump-adjacent within Vogue. But she couldn’t say no to Jeff Bezos, who has made a hard-right turn straight into MAGAville. Conde Nast must have told Anna Wintour that she had no choice but to give Sanchez a cover, even if it was just a digital cover. Wintour relented, but resigned as EIC of Vogue. Behold, the digital Vogue cover. At least Wintour kept Jeff Bezos off the cover – it’s just Lauren. You can read the Vogue piece here. I… could not get through the whole thing.
So, the wedding dress. Lauren and Jeff both wore Dolce & Gabbana. I thought she would wear D&G, and I also thought Roberto Cavalli would probably be in the mix. She would not take Anna’s advice to wear Oscar de la Renta or Valentino or one of the more elegant designers. No, it would have to be a tight, corseted bodice with lots and lots of lace. It would have to be a face so full of Botox, it makes her eyes look crossed. She’s long in the tooth for this virginal Apollonia Corleone cosplay (Apollonia wore it better). Lauren said she was actually inspired by Sophia Loren’s wedding gown in Houseboat (the movie where Loren was like 19 years old). The row of buttons is the worst part, honestly.
Wedding guests included: Queen Rania, Leo DiCaprio, Orlando Bloom, Oprah Winfrey, Gayle King, Kim Kardashian, Khloé Kardashian, Kris Jenner, Kylie Jenner, Karlie Kloss, Usher, Bill Gates, Tom Brady, François-Henri Pinault, Diane von Fürstenberg, Domenico Dolce, Sydney Sweeney and more. The newlyweds’ first dance was to a cover of Elvis’s “Can’t Help Falling in Love,” which was sung by Matteo Bocelli. As someone pointed out, this weird collection of wedding guests shows how few “real” friends they have. Anyway, I’m glad that this tacky extravaganza is over (or close to being over). I really think Venice might ban Americans from the city after this.
Cover courtesy of Vogue.
I wore lace at my wedding so I do love lace but this fakakta thing was not good in any way. It looked like a lace sausage casing.
I scrolled down without reading to comment that very thing: “sausage casing”. This design could’ve been helped so much if the neckline was lower or even just opened up a little (which, this is a woman who went the Inauguration with her tits out. You’d think she’d be the last person who needed convincing!). With the tight corseting and high neck, it’s like her head is a bit of sausage bursting out its casing. She’s visibly uncomfortable in every single photo, like she’s struggling to inhale.
Lace sausage 😂
Was she trying for the mermaid look?
Bezos is no Prince Eric, that’s for sure. People usually look good on their wedding day. These two failed the mission.
This is a great thread excoriating the design and D&G:
https://x.com/moorehn/status/1938710707459236307
Thanks for the link, very interesting & thought-provoking comments.
A casing so tight she can’t stand upright.
Her hands in that photo look so weird. I don’t know if it was just an awkward moment of if there is AI involved but I can’t believe that got past the editors at Vogue.
They’re Prince Louis hands.
Sausage casing was exactly what I thought too – the Sophia Loren dress it was allegedly based on had a classic 50s crinoline skirt which made it seam lighter and more balanced.
JESSICA RABBIT!
Fugly. Whoever was the photographer for this cover – Tierney Gearon…this is a career low. 🤮
Maybe that’s why it was badly shot. The reflection on the left side of her face and forehead shows Tierney couldn’t get a really good shot of her.
Oh well, I suppose Mario was busy that day.
The dress and the person..She’s genuinely ugly. I don’t get it. She’s truly hideous. It’s surely a joke?
OMG I lknow Tierney and love her as a person. a former fashion model, she is now a famous photographer but not really known for fashion shots, more for fine art surreal photos. Too bad – with that dress and his offf tux, she didn’t have much to work with
I honestly think she looked beautiful would’ve prefer less buttons but she looked fine.
Tacky. Tacky. Tacky. Cheap and classless no matter the cost. These out of touch f#ckers who gleefully interfere with politics and social dynamics need to be taxed out of existence and legally forced to pay their employees living wages. Allowing them to double dip (recieve tax breaks while also forcing tax payers to supplement their employees because they don’t them pay enough) has to stop. They are destroying the social fabric of civilization. This is disgusting.
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The dress was more tasteful than I expected but I guarantee that was because Anna said “I’m not putting you on the cover of my magazine with your tits out!”
I was also surprised how conservative it looked.
I am not because a virginal bride fits a fantasy he has. Here, her job is to play untouched pure body, the body of a young virgin. Here, she is covered, demure, innocent for his despoiling.
And yeah, I did almost puke writing that. But it’s the truth.
@NoHope, I mean wasn’t the wedding in a church? It might be just that. I don’t know where you got his lust for virginity. I don’t like Jeff Bezos, but he never dated some teenager as far as we know?
@sevenblue You are 100% correct–this is not about a predilection for actual young persons–at all. What is nauseating is his ongoing display of kink, control, and fantasy that I can see all the way here from the Peoples Republic of Brooklyn. This is scene-ing, this particular one about brides.
It is lovely to think her demure outfit might be about appropriateness and location, but this is a woman who wore nothing but a bra under her one-button blazer as a state-invited guest to an inauguration of a world leader. There, it was a humiliation kink. There’s the hired hooker looks at other White House functions.
I am sure he is warmly encouraging and loving about all her procedures and her willingness. I think that’s why she thinks she is okay.
The way she had modified her body to looks like a porn star suggests Bezos has certain interests. She has disfigured herself for him and it’s really sad. She looked way better before the inflated bj lips and bolt on boobs that don’t fit her body type. Pure male fantasy.
The dress barely contains this trashiness but that is what he wants.
She could have tried for Playboy (does that still exist?) Wedding Special.
@Aimee The dress was very similar to Kitty Spencer whose wedding looks were great and she was paid or sponsored.LS looks for her wedding seems like someone playing dress up or society lady. The take is influencer in the worst way possible! I think the Kadashians and others were paid to be there..
https://www.tatler.com/article/lady-kitty-spencer-wedding-dress-designer-dolce-and-gabbana
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I heard that Kris Jenner demanded her daughters be invited. LOL! 🤣
Nah, those kardashians will show up anywhere there are cameras and they have an excuse to wear tacky, tight, revealing, hideous clothes
The Kardashians live by what Dolly Parton says: it costs a lot to look this cheap.
Lady Kitty had the good sense not to want her dress to hug her body from neck to ankle. Lauren’s dress look like she was saying tighter, tighter! during the fittings.
I agree. At least the boobs weren’t bare and gushing outta place!
“As someone pointed out, this weird collection of wedding guests shows how few “real” friends they have.”
I was thinking the same thing. I bet the footed the bill for these celebrities too. They have industry friends it appears. It was about “showing off” all the famous people they know.
All that money and she still looks trashy. I can’t think of two people who deserve each other more.
In a world of Lauren Sanchezs be a McKenzie Scott. His ex wife seems to be a genuinely kind giving person.
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I was sure that it would be another” boobs on parade” so having covered cleavage was unusually tasteful. For her.
I do wonder why Mackenzie Scott got divorced from the second husband, and relatively quickly. I really hope he did not cheat on her.
Is that related to this?
MacKenzie Scott is Jeff Bezos’s first wife so it’s related. I wonder why she got divorced from her 2nd husband so fast too. Second marriages sometimes get starry eyed and jump too soon due tot he relief of falling in love again after a hard divorce. May have found out incompatible or the money did weird things to him. In any event, MacKenzie Scott is the gold standard of philanthropy and charitable giving. – a saint compared to conspicuous consumption Bezos- Sanchez
No, Chez, it isn’t relevant but some people have to get their kicks in where they can. Distract from trashy Jeff B and his new MAGAT blowup doll wife.
@alteya — what’s wrong with you? You tend to write such snarky responses to people. It IS relevant because MacKenzie used to be married to Bezos for a long time and they have 4 kids. She was always the epitome of good taste in the way she dressed and behaved, even when they were going through the separation and divorce. She is an amazing philanthropist, the complete antithesis to the new Mrs. Big Dollars Bezos. Sanchez is a classic plastic LA bimbo with boobs on display 24/7 and so much cosmetic surgery, botox and injectibles she looks like her lips are going to explode. We are merely making a comparison between the two women and noting that MacKenzie’s second marriage unfortunately did not work. This is NOT getting “kicks in” or “distracting” from the Bezoses. SMH…
Ariel called. She wants her tail fin back.
LOL! My first thought as well. Ariel with a touch of Jessica Rabbit.
HA!! That was my first thought as well! Def. Jessica Rabbit with the cleavage covered.
She used to be a pretty good looking woman back when she was on the news here in L.A. Now, all she is, is a fantasy blow up doll to satisfy one ego driven, narcissistic, money-hungry a$$wipe.
Her body is a canvas for his desires. Her body looks like those museum mannequins wearing dresses from when people were small and women suffered for tiny waists. I find myself hoping that she was photoshopped because this tiny waist and razor flat stomach feels like discipline and fantasy. This is marriage as possession.
She’s Jeff’s Barbie so she’ll do whatever he wants. Mackenzie probably has her own independence of mind and Jeff got fed up with that. He wanted to be with a “Yes, sir” I dream of Jeannie woman.
But looking at the bad photographs of her especially underneath that tree, I think I can pinpoint why she looks so awful. Did she do something to her jaw? It looks like she has the freakish Habsburg jaw. Or maybe the photographer really dislikes her because that jaw is popping out at me.
I keep thinking yikes when I see her, her life must consist of exercise, eating nothing and plastic surgery. What’s the point?
I often wonder how many years of accumulated days do they give up to surgery and surgery recovery. Life is short.
And rib surgery to get that Marie Antoinette extreme cinched waist effect.
Not a museum mannequin. At least I am unfamiliar with museums that have inflatable sex dolls as exhibits.
But he’s a billionaire so she will do a lot for the money. In about five years he will tire and she will regret the transformation. Hope she had a good number in the pre nup.
Lauren Sanchez was channelling Jackie Kennedy o n a s s i s when she wore wore the white Dress and headscarf and sunglasses the day before the wedding
Did she? Couldn’t see the Jackie O homage at all.
Well her husband has that 500 million dollar yacht. Ar i Had his expensive yacht Maybe lauren wanted to channel jackie the a r i years.
@Tessa Agree with the yacht. I could see the Grace Kelly dupe with the lace and buttons but that’s about it. Never heard of Lauren until Jeff.
This wedding sure ain’t La Dolce Vita.
Jackie O never transformed her body for male consumption. So there is no resemblance.
The dress is completely unremarkable except that she’s covered up. Styling is worse than unremarkable, anyone could do better.
It could have been so much worse, is the general vibe 🤣🤣🤣
Why does her hair look like she just stepped out of the shower and towel dried it?
&BW .. Why is the ponytail extension so bad? I’m guessing it’s the lighting but color match one side of the bang.
Anna had no problem putting Melania Trump on the cover when she got married so I’m not buying the narrative that she resigned because she had to put Lauren Sanchez on the cover. I was surprised that Lauren covered up for wedding. The dress is better than I thought it would be.
Hated Melania dress but at least we didn’t know her then.
I believe Mango was still a democrat at that point. The Clintons attended that wedding.
Eh, I think Dolce & Gabbana is actually the perfect choice for this wedding – tacky, problematic, and unapologetic.
Good point. The Italian aristocracy would prefer to wear Armani.
Maybe D&G appeal to that new money, tasteless crowd: “Look at me! I’m a billionaire! My destination wedding is in VENICE!”
There’s no Italian aristocracy in Italy, all titles became redundant in 1946 when the Kingdom of Italy became Republic.
I hope to live long enough to see the same for the U.K. and be rid of all those stupid nobles we have.
It’s more covered up than I expected. I’m not crazy about this mermaid all lace dress though. Maybe lace but not the tight mermaid silhouette. But that’s my tase. I almost never like a mermaid silhouette.
I really can’t stand mermaid dresses either, and can’t think of a single person who looks good in one. I am surprised every time some uber rich woman chooses one. They just aren’t flattering, IMO.
Dressed and designed by nasty, self hating homophobes is quite the statement. Her look is reminiscent of Kim’s dress in her wedding to Kanye. It’s like because both women dress in a hyper sexual way and trashy way—so they chose demure looks for their weddings. It’s remarkable how unattractive Sanchez is.
Kim’s dress was much better, imv.
The cover photo makes her look fresher and less surgically enhanced – somehow they’ve toned down the balloon lips and cat’s eyes. Add the demure lace on top and it’s not a horrible photo.
Yes, but that photo of her under the tree has her face moving into Jocelyn Wildenstein territory. It’s getting very scary. And if you look at old pictures of her, she used to be very pretty before she destroyed her face. Such a shame….
She’s full scale Jokermouth now.
I will never understand why women choose to do this to themselves, especially when they were so naturally beautiful to begin with. I looked up photos of LS when she was younger, before the horrible cosmetic work and she was truly stunning. She reminded me a lot of Catherine Zeta Jones. Just goes to show that even the beautiful ones can be chock full of insecurities.
@smcollins – It’s kind of slippery slope, isn’t it? You get tempted to start tweaking your face early and then you have to keep doing it and the scar tissue builds up and the injectables start shifting…
She was so gorgeous, I just don’t get it.
That was what I was coming to post. This is the best she’s looked in years. They especially toned down the lip fillers which really spoil her looks. She was an attractive woman back in her correspondent days.
My god that dress looks uncomfortable and she looks hideous. I wonder how she would manage to use the facilities while wearing this monstrosity. Asking for a friend.
Wait, she’s under a tree in her underwear? Why!? (I know, it’s so she can be photographed with her tits out, but it just looks weird.)
@ FYI, Sánchez will take any and all opportunities to have her tits out. The mere fact that she attended a presidents inauguration with a jacket draped over her bra is a clear indication that she has nothing to offer but her breasts/body. That’s why she chose such a tight fitted wedding dress that most likely wouldn’t give her a chance to take a deep enough breath.
Interestingly, what no one seems to taken notice is the fact that their wedding in Venice is not considered a legal wedding, which leads me to believe that Bezos held this event in Venice simply to shut her up…. Given they have been engaged for years and there had still been no wedding Bezos decided to go down this path. Given that they have been engaged for years, I am pretty certain that given that Bezos was dragging his feet pretty firmly and LS may have given him an ultimatum. With his history pertaining to his divorce with Mackenzie he had to split his entire wealth with her and he certainly isn’t about to jeopardize his wealth again, especially to a woman like Sanchez as she isn’t in this marriage for love alone.
They had a civil ceremony stateside a few days before going to Venice. So they are legally married. And yes the Venice wedding isn’t legal but in this case it doesn’t matter.
My thought was post coital when you grab your boyfriend’s shirt to cover up to go in the kitchen and make a snack for both of you . *Boyfriend shirt*
It’s giving “Miss Kitty down at the saloon married herself a railroad baron.”
Wish we had like buttons. Please accept my humble trophy.🏆.
That’s so catty, I will take it 😹
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LMAO!
Pure gold! Thank you for the grin you put on my face!😂
I never really talk about a woman’s (or man’s) attractiveness but she’s hideous. I don’t get either of them.. She’s so unattractive, so ugly, wtf? When you deliberately make yourself so ugly, why? What’s the point
Yeah, it’s fair game when someone purposefully sculpts his or her face and body to look a certain way.
I am relieved that she covered up her boobs, but she still looks cheap, tacky, and trashy. She’s too short for this silhouette, the buttons are too much, the sexy bustier with the Appolonia/Grace Kelly lace didn’t work at all.
Why the shot of her half-nekkid in the trees?
I don’t get it? She’s genuinely ugly. She looked fine originally. But when you change yourself to look that bad, on purpose. Why? She looks so bad. It’s clearly their choice but she’s awful.
Why the shot under the tree? To show to the world (again) exactly what Jeff paid for.
It’s the fashion in faces. The Kardashians are the same – they’re all chasing the same face. But unlike this year’s fashion, which you can wear for a while and then throw away, you’re stuck with this year’s face until you can have more surgery to meet the next fashion. And if you’re 56-years old, you have age and gravity to worry about on top of it.
The dress is horrific, but I dont like D&G clothing. I find it trashy which is why the Kardashians like it so much, I guess. I didnt much care for the inspiration, either though (Sophia Loren’s dress), but i liked it better than Sanchez’ s dress. She really should have gone with Oscar de la renta. That beautiful dress whe wore at the Met gala last year was the best I’ve ever seen her.
It could have been 100x worse so, at least it’s not just lingerie which I thought it would be
Sophia Loren’s was of a specific time & place–and body–and looks absolutely perfect on her. This one, ugh, I wouldn’t know where to begin with my intense dislike of it all. I don’t know how she could enjoy her wedding day with the hours needed to get into that dress, let alone out of that dress, and then all the in-between time wherein she couldn’t really walk on her own, couldn’t eat or drink anything, couldn’t really sit down I bet.
It seems to me to be the epitome of all the bridezilla lists they do on buzzfeed, this day/weekend has nothing to do with two people who love each other wanting to celebrate that love and everything to do with putting on a huge $$$$ production to show themselves and their $$$$ to the world.
The mermaid silhouette seems very dated at this point. It was popular, what, 15-20 years ago? She was going for timeless and classic but it looks old and cheap on her.
I hope Anna Wintour writes a memoir of her time at Vogue.
She looks better than I thought she would on the cover. I’ve never liked that silhouette though. That photo with her shirt yeah no. Her face looks weird. Kind of like the Joker.
Hopefully this is the last article you run on this trash.
Agree, although in the spirit of #trueconfessions, I am actually only reading the headline and the comments. Because all of you give me life every day and remind me that there are still corners of reason in the world.
Two thoughts. I wonder how much people were paid or bribed to come. And I wonder who and how many declined the invite.
I don’t know how she does it, but she makes everything she wears look like it came from SHEIN.
Mermaids don’t walk. How can one walk, sit, or breathe in that gown?
It is soooo tight that breathing had to be difficult. In that heat and humidity I’m surprised she didn’t pass out.
I think the dress is pretty. The problem is that Lauren isn’t.
I don’t understand all those buttons in the front when there’s also buttons down the back. Is he expected to peel her like a lace banana on their wedding night, or does the dress magically split open at midnight revealing the reptile creature hiding within?
OTOH, Kate was home drooling over the dress wishing she had a dress with that many buttons
You have got me rolling with laughter Henny Penny!!
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@HennyPenny for the win!
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I try to avoid commenting on people’s looks so all I will say is there is something unnatural about this image. The dress isn’t suited for her. It looks so so tight.
This outfit was ridiculous when you factor that there’s of the party she had the boobs out on full display. I find them so distasteful. He won’t let his employees take bathroom breaks or pay fairly but will drop 50 million to show off his blow up fill Wife and paid friends
What’s the point of having buttons running down both the front and the back of the dress? Is that the newest status symbol? Buttons?
You just know that it’s gone on Kate’s mood board.
It looks like they are bisecting her into a pair of pants, and it’s not pretty
I thought it wasn’t too bad until I scrolled past her waist.
It doesn’t matter how much money you have.you can’t buy class.
Shocking that her tits weren’t out. I expected to see more of the gals than she usually displays. I guess Vogue drew the line.
I give the Sanchez Besos about 3 years.
Yeah, it’s gonna be a tabloid gold divorce, was my first thought.
I only see her bizarre mouth…
I’m shocked that the outdoor wedding photo looks lovely and simple with the tree canopy and simple white chairs. I thought they’d be indoors with gilt and excess everything Ala the Trump-Melania wedding.
What surprised me about that photo was that all the people around them were smiling & happy for the couple. I mean, they look like they genuinely cared & that surprise me, given that guest-list. But then again, reporters aren’t going to tell us about aunties & uncles & cousins & childhood friends, & etc., they’re going to concentrate on the names we know.
I looked up images of the,”Housebost” wedding dress and it wasn’t that great, not the best choice for inspiration.
Don’t let Anna off the hook too easily. She’s been a no to MAGAs but she said yes to a splashy Asma Assad pictorial and soft focus interviews.
Problem is, there’s only one Sophia Loren. Looking to anything worn by Sophia you’re doomed to failure. Plus, the 1950s were a particular time & place with all the body-con dresses & fishtail hems & Hollywood bombshells. They’re really best left in the past.
Sophia in real life chose Carlo ponti over cary grant.
Bezos could have used his stolen wealth to help solve world hunger, but instead, he married a gold digger.
It’s way past time to organize society around meeting people’s needs. We need to invest in agriculture, education, and health care. It’s doable.
To me it was giving that kid who dressed up as a fart for Halloween.
Gonna pull up Carolyn Bessette’s wedding picture. As a palate cleanser.
Just relieved Gaga didn’t attend or perform. (And I don’t think Elton was there/did either?)
I don’t like the dress, but I am sick of seeing her boobs. Someone mentioned that she used to be on the news, and I looked up footage. I guess this is her ethos, because she was dressed, to me, in a very inappropriate way to be on the news. She had a VERY short skirt on, and a flimsey short sleeved top draped loosely so a black bra showing prominently. A VERY serious news woman was what I was getting. Not. She seemed and seems quite vapid. Perhaps she is a woman of substance, but it ain’t showing, and optics matter. There is such a thing as taste, and you can be either born with it or learn it…..or just throw it out the window. I’m so sorry for her for her face. I would hate for anyone to have to live with that. Surely she hoped for better when she got it. Perhaps it could be corrected.
Her face is so incredibly freakish. She has gone over the top into joker territory it’s the mouth especially. I find it bizarre that With all her money she couldn’t she get it fixed to look good.
Also in the photo under the tree in her knickers her whole face looks deformed and the amount of photoshop is just crazy.
I was shocked that she was covered up with the wedding dress. I actually liked the high neck and the lack of boobage on show as her breasts are just gross hard basketballs . Again with all that money and you cant get a decent boob job? Makes me wonder do they actually think they look nice?!
Look if this were a random person in her 50s who had never had the money to wear the white wedding dress of her dreams, I’d be cheering her on. But I find something so gross about the rich, virginal cosplay going on here.
FFS, lady, you have all the money in the world to get an elegant dress, and you choose this lacy abomination?
I was just musing on this being the ‘wedding of the year’ and could I just manifest the funniest gossip thing that could possibly happen? Taylor Swift throws a surprise wedding next weekend with an even shinier A-list guest list with everyone from Paul McCartney and to Sabrina Carpenter and Gigi Hadid/Bradley Cooper plus half the NFL and other assorted sports stars. She does love a July 4 celebration… and y’know, it would make me laugh if after all this fuss this mess gets drowned out after a week.
I love your thinking.
Ha! That would be awesome!!!
Please let this happen!🙏
Admittedly fascinated by how genuinely unattractive this woman is now by choice. The excessive plastic surgery. The terrible fashion. The poor tailoring on the fashion. It’s money can’t buy class but on a farcical level. Make you realize Suzanne Collins wasn’t too far off in the insane styling of the Capitol residents on her books. The wealthy are so desperate to keep themselves above the lower classes, that they’ll go to extreme lengths to be inaccessible.
She looks physically uncomfortable in that dress, as if she were somehow compressed into a concrete corset. I can’t imagine all the pain of countless surgeries she must have had to transform her face and body.
When they started dating, she was gorgeous. Why would she torture herself like this? It obviously hurts.
Also, he fell in love with her while she looked like a normal beautiful woman. Why would either of them want her to suffer like that to change into this?
In all fairness, this could have been a lot worse. I think this was probably subdued for them.
I don’t hate the veil. She is trashy as f.
The best is the gays all coming for his clip on tie. Girl. You get a custom made, dolce and gabbana tux made and you wear a clip in tie..I cannot.
That dress looks so awkward to me. It was like she couldn’t commit to one style, so she picked a bunch. The turtleneck long-sleeves would have looked fine without the buttons that make it look like the dress is on backwards. Weird choice for a Venice summer wedding too. But then she has those thin straps that look like a bra or spaghetti-strap nightgown. Throwing in a cheap lace tablecloth meets a botoxed mermaid. She has billions but can’t buy taste.
Apollonia Corleone cosplay – genius lol.
Agreed! Kaiser nailed it! However, Apollonia wore it better.