Lauren Sánchez Bezos is facing a wave of online criticism over her 2026 Met Gala look , which many have found “boring” and “disappointing.”

The 56-year-old journalist, who is sponsoring this year’s event alongside her billionaire husband Jeff Bezos, arrived Monday at New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art in a midnight-blue mermaid dress with a heart-shaped neckline and beaded straps.

This year’s dress code , “Fashion is Art,” encourages guests to think about how they can use their bodies as a blank canvas.

Speaking to host La La Anthony about how her dress embodied the theme, Bezos said it was designed by Schiaparelli as a tribute to John Singer Sargent’s 1884 painting Madame X .

“It’s a painting that’s actually in the Met,” Sánchez Bezos said.…