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Almost like the new neighbors next door: Bezos
and
Sánchez
at the “Vogue” shoot
Photo: Annie Leibovitz / Vogue
He is wearing a T-shirt and cowboy hat, she is wearing a white ribbed undershirt. An ordinary couple from Texas taking a quick break in the driver's seat of the pickup truck on a road trip through the desert. Average All-American, you might think - if there wasn't a 20-carat diamond sparkling on her finger and a suspiciously tight shirt over her biceps.
It is Amazon founder
Jeff Bezos
(60) and
Lauren Sánchez
(54) who
can be seen in a photo by
Annie Leibovitz
(74) for the American “Vogue”. Since they gave their big engagement interview in November 2023, the picture has been going around the world.
Because the couple is the ultimate power couple
staged in the present. Because there are rumors on the Internet that Bezos had his muscles pumped up using Photoshop (everyone has their vanities). And also because Bezos and Sánchez nonchalantly ignore any discussion of taste, and not just in the glossy engagement photos. He prefers to wear leather jackets that his peers would classify as a mid-life crisis-fighting look; She loves skin-tight party dresses as well as colorful yoga pants.
Popular understatement (not without my hoodie!) and outrageous luxury (a $500 million yacht) always go hand in hand for these two.
The only true status symbol, as the billionaire couple demonstrates, is not just enduring supposed contradictions - but also turning them into a stylistic device.