The price tag on Lauren Sánchez’s statement bag is sure to wake you right up.
You may know Sánchez as the the vice chair of the Bezos Earth Fund and Emmy Award-winning journalist leading a star-studded crew of women to space in April. Or, perhaps you remember her as the woman seated front-row at Donald Trump’s inauguration wearing a white lace bra underneath her white Alexander McQueen suit.
Well, on March 28, the fiancé of Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos stepped out in another look that’s certain to stir up some discourse. Just two weeks ahead of her Blue Origins mission to space, Lauren Sánchez was photographed in Los Angeles wearing an Alaïa denim pencil skirt and matching top with brown suede pumps and large aviator sunglasses.
While she looked highly caffeinated with a large coffee cup in her pinkish-nude manicured hands, the Backgrid photo agency reports that her cup of joe is actually Balenciaga’s 9am Coffee Cup purse. The loud luxury piece is currently out of stock in white but is still being sold in black at Bergdorf Goodman for $5,750.

Lauren Sánchez in Studio City on March 28, 2025.
GIDEFunny enough, Kim Kardashian seemingly carried the same piece back in December 2023, though this writer believed it to be the luxury brand’s $150 porcelain travel cup at the time. Unlike Sánchez, Kardashian leaned into norm-core with a pair of $450 flip-flops and a grey sweatsuit while toting around two separate iPhones.
If that’s the case, this bag would not be the only Balenciaga item these very wealthy friends have in common. Back in November 2023, Kardashian told Vogue she once found herself in a bidding war against Sánchez for a couture dress being sold at auction. During the Kering Foundation event, Kardashian says she called out to Sánchez from across the room, saying, “We’ll share it!”
In the end, Kering offered to have two dresses made for $200,000 each, with both women attending their first fitting in Paris together. “Lauren and I are always sending DMs building each other up,” Kardashian told Vogue. “Every time there’s a look that we like, she’ll say, ‘WOW,’ or, ‘OMG you look amazing.’ She’s such a girl’s girl.”