Think Conde Nast’s Portfolio meets Sex and the City. At least that’s how we imagine the pitch meetings went when Darren Star pitched his new show, Cashmere Mafia, which is about four professional women in New York City. But where SATC emphasized the relationships of the women (it was, after all, based upon a Candace Bushnell’s dating column in the New York Observer), Cashmere Mafia will focus on the careers of its four protagonists.
They are all ridiculously successful, it seems. The sort of women who Portfolio hopes will make up its projected 40% female readership. (A highly unlikely demographic makeup for a business magazine. DealBreaker’s readership is only about 18% female.) One runs a hotel chain. Another, inevitably, is a managing director at an investment bank. (Francis O’Connor, pictured left).
The Sun reports that the pilot just wrapped filming. “The characters are all friends from business school who are in the power echelons of New York. The show is about their work and how they balance work, family and relationships and in some ways the extra workload that women have to bear in times like this,” Star tells the Sun.
Cashmere is the new Sex [Sun]
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an MD at an I bank that looks like that – what does he have a diet of strictly vodka sodas and blow……
vespa,
Clearly she’s middle market.
bsd
my oversight…….
Speaking of Television – does anybody have news on that new HBO show that’s supposed to be Entourage but with Hedge Fund PMs?
is that BL?
hmmm, 18% female readership — why does that not surprise me??
cuz really, who wants to hang around guys that refer to themselves as BSDs and subscribe to Trader Monthly??
yes the money can be good (about 75% of our 3-legged colleagues, but hey it’s better than that $75k marketing job!) ..
but 18% is really just sad — it’d be so nice to have some company …
Hell, the last thing we need is another series focusing on some stupid career cunts and their professional lives in NYC. Get this: “The show is about their work and how they balance work, family and relationships and in some ways the extra workload that women have to bear in times like this.” Poor bitches. Go cry me a fucking river, ladies.
To provide context to that figure, you should keep in mind that it’s on the high side for a business-oriented publication. Females make up about 16% of the readership of business magazines.
“who wants to hang around guys that refer to themselves as BSDs and subscribe to Trader Monthly”
“Artists”, “models”, “designers”, “entrepreneurs” and every other type of golddigger. Also IB analysts who are willing to do what it takes to land in a hedge fund (they don’t ask for money, just a post-coital look over their resume).
“…they don’t ask for money, just a post-coital look over their resume.”
Classic! (Hehe)
Someone give that dork his own blog. He is way funnier than Muffie Benson-Perella!
must have touched a nerve, but I had no idea on top of bravado there’d be so much insecurity too
guys, please relax .. you WIN on so many fronts it’s not worth getting upset over ..
take a deep breath and keep telling yourself over and over, “models like me for ME, not my money!!”
Where is there insecurity? No guy worth his salt is under the delusion that it’s about anything other than money and power. If he is, then he’s a pussy. Let’s cut to the chase. Money and power: that’s what women are really interested in, when it comes to guys. Let’s be honest here. :)
C,
Just how dense are you, sweetie? Didn’t I explicitly say they’re only after my money (“golddiggers”)?
Attention to detail is key in this industry. Maybe you should stop blaming your career failures on your gender and instead focus on your own shortcomings.
If that’s too much of a hurdle to clear just get lipo, a tit job and some short skirts. See, as men we really don’t have that alternate route.