What the Tech Guys Wore to the Met Gala

It is not exactly news that the billionaire tech elite are increasingly interested in fashion, both professionally (think: Web3’s virtual duds) and personally, upgrading their personal wardrobes and embedding themselves in the buzzy social milieu that accompanies fashion’s many splashy events. Earlier this year, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, sat front row at Prada’s fall runway show, both of them dressed in the brand’s designs—months after Meta had linked with Prada to produce “smart glasses” with the label’s eyewear partner, EssilorLuxottica. Back in January, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and his wife, Lauren Sánchez Bezos, sat front row at Schiaparelli and Dior during Paris Couture Week. Then, on Monday, the Bezoses served as honorary co-chairs at the 2026 Met Gala, reportedly donating $10 million to the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute.

While her husband skipped the famous carpet photo op at the so-dubbed “Tech Gala,” Sánchez Bezos posed on the Met steps in a strapless navy gown designed by Schiaparelli’s Daniel Roseberry, in a look styled by celebrity “image architect” Law Roach. An unmissably hulking rock sat on her finger, which one of my coworkers quipped you could “spot from outer space.” Like Jeff Bezos, Zuckerberg and Chan skipped the carpet too, but per The New York Times, the first-time Met attendees respectively wore Prada and Alaïa.

Several other tech titans made the opposite move, posing for shutterbugs and abiding by the dress code, “Fashion Is Art,” in their own way. Adam Mosseri, CEO of Instagram and Threads (both owned by Zuckerberg’s Meta), wore an earthy, hand-embroidered linen suit from the Delhi-based label Kartik Research—a brand recently seen on New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who opted to skip the gala altogether. Google co-founder Sergey Brin wore a black suit with royal blue details that formed a Matisse-like face across his chest, punctuated with a matching pussy-bow tie and a Lion and Sun pin of the historic Iranian national flag. Former Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield donned a rather dandyish get-up comprising an upturned collar, unfinished lapels, and cropped trousers, accessorized with an ornate brooch and a brightly patterned cummerbund. OpenAI’s Charles Porch wore a creamy custom Kallmeyer tuxedo that the brand said was inspired by Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring. John Imah, CEO and creator of SpreeAI, wore an elaborate, gold-festooned and beige-toned suit by Harbison Studio, complete with a balloon-sleeve robe. Like the Hollywood celebrities on the carpet, these CEOs leaned into the glitz.