More News From Popbitch: Fashion

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Here Condé, gone tomorrow?

"How much darker can the clouds get over Anna Wintour at Conde Nast? The gimmicky robots on the catwalk at Vogue World: Milano, weren’t a hit - especially with designers Miuccia Prada and Alessandro Michele, who greeted them with stony faced horror.

With Vogue World being sponsored by Meta’s Ray-Bans, the extravaganza’s 2027 stop announced for fashion-indifferent San Francisco, plus the eyebrow-raising involvement of Jeff and Lauren Bezos in the last Met Gala, the brand’s sudden appetite for tech oligarchs is starting to make advertisers a little queasy.

The once seminal September issue of Vogue in UK is thin; a large proportion is just house ads and classifieds.

Together with the Galliano kerfuffle and the mockery in the wake of the GQ Tom Cruise cover story, how much more pressure can the Wintour-Conde Nast relationship withstand?

Soft power analysts are focusing hard on the one key indicator of fashion week status: who she can summon to sit next to her at this week’s shows. A-listers and the wealthy Euro elite? Or grisly influencers and her new tech pals...”

POPBITCH

I have always felt queasy around the stories of the super rich and The Met Gala and its sponsors in particular (did no-ne think to boycott something funded by Bezos?! ) but this confirms what I thought

EAT the RICH?

So long as I get first dibs on the billionaires . . . you know like Rihanna and such