Has any woman loved a corset as much as Lauren Sánchez Bezos? Mae West, perhaps, but that was back in the heyday of her Hollywood career, almost a century before Ms. Sánchez Bezos burst into the public consciousness as the new object of the Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos’ very public affection.
Now that she and Mr. Bezos have made their union official, and the foam and fervor surrounding the wedding that riveted the world has (somewhat) settled, so, too, her affiliation with that garment has been formalized.
Her troth was clearly pledged at the prenuptial bash, when Ms. Sánchez Bezos wore an off-the-shoulder Schiaparelli couture gown so tightly bound at the waist that she resembled nothing so much as a vintage perfume bottle. It reached its apogee at the wedding ceremony, with a Dolce & Gabbana gown that may have been covered with sheer lace at the top but was so molded from the bosom down that it shaped her body into the platonic ideal of an ivory siren’s curve.
And it finished off the following day at the couple’s going-away pajama party with a strapless pink Atelier Versace number that thrust Ms. Sánchez Bezos’ breasts out to there and pulled her waist into here.
In many ways, Ms. Sánchez Bezos’ penchant for a garment most associated with monarchs and courtesans has become a symbol of the complicated, impossible-to-ignore feelings that their relationship, and wedding itself, have engendered. The ones rooted in age-old stereotypes about feminism, wealth, class, women’s advancement and how it all looks. Or should look.
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