Amazon Is About to Decide What You Wear

Tech has money. Fashion has cultural power. The Met Gala is where those forces meet. Bezos, Zuckerberg, Anna Wintour, AI, luxury houses — everyone's trying to buy taste, influence, or legitimacy. Here's how tech crashed fashion's front row, and where this is all going.

00:00 Intro – Tech Crashes the Runway
00:24 The Devil Wears Prada Sequel and Fashion's Breaking Point
00:38 Why Fashion Needed Tech Money
01:20 Bezos Buys the Met Gala
01:51 Backlash, Protests, and “Buying Influence”
02:05 The Corporate Logic: Humans as Data Points
02:42 Fashion Houses Aren't Innocent Either
03:14 Zuckerberg Shows Up at Prada
04:11 Then OpenAI, Snap, and Shopify Bought In Too
04:23 The NYC Mayor Opted Out
04:36 How the Met Gala Became a Tech-Fashion Merger
05:33 Tech's Habit of Commodifying Everything
06:28 The AI Threat to Taste and Creativity
07:23 “80% Designed by AI” and My Grandpa's Take
07:58 Fashion as Art vs. Metrics as Culture
08:27 Why Tech Wants Women's Loyalty
08:54 Outro – Couture in the Amazon Basics Carousel

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The wall art behind me: Fons Heijnsbroek (via Unsplash).

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