Hop in the Delorean, we're gunning this baby to the douche-tastic (but much loved) days of 2007. Put on your sunglasses cause we assure you, second-hand embarrassment will ensue:
Broke bankers and struggling models mobbed the rooftop of the Empire Hotel last night for the latest installment of Fashion Meets Finance. A tipsy brunette on crutches was trying to put her Burberry coat on so she could leave, but guys wearing suits sans ties kept jostling her as they moved past.The party was billed as a return to the halcyon excesses of 2007, and enough unemployed finance types fished the necessary change from their couch to pony up for a bottle of Absolut. Liz, a 20-something fashionista in a low-cut black cocktail dress, eyed them skeptically and said, "just look at all the douches in those seats. They're all so broke." A line-up of seven models was in the DJ booth nodding to anemic dance music.
One of them, Sabrina Roberts, a six-foot Afro-Chinese stunner wearing a tiny creme-brulee-colored dress--told me she wasn't giving up on finance dudes. "One, they're more interesting; and two, can you imagine if everyone was in fashion?" I asked her if she had ever thought of dating so-called normal people. She twirled around, took a sip from her champagne flute and asked happily, "How do normal people pay for champagne?"
Graphic assault to the senses after the jump (via pictures from one of our readers who braved the storm).
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Posted by guest , Jan 23, 2009 4:06PM
That Gallardo is from that Collectors Rental Club
Posted by guest , Jan 23, 2009 4:07PM
That Gallardo is from that Collectors Rental Club
Posted by girl , Jan 23, 2009 4:07PM
You managed to suck the humor out of something that is, inherently, a joke. Well done.
Posted by guest , Jan 23, 2009 4:07PM
Too Leveraged Sell Out, didn't read.
Posted by guest , Jan 23, 2009 4:09PM
I <3 you Girl.
Posted by guest , Jan 23, 2009 4:11PM
pic 1 = cankles
Posted by guest , Jan 23, 2009 4:11PM
Casting for tool academy?
Posted by guest , Jan 23, 2009 4:11PM
Awesome. Just awesome.
Posted by guest , Jan 23, 2009 4:14PM
haha @6 good eye
Posted by Investorcluzo , Jan 23, 2009 4:16PM
such a sad state of affairs, not impressed. more pictures please and not the blurred kind - these girls look like hacks, I've seen better looking assistants on the trading floor. the real models must be south for the winter.
how does ableson take himself seriously? "I'm doing god's work" c'mon man, stop drinking your own kool-aid.
Posted by guest , Jan 23, 2009 4:22PM
"A sillier clash of cultures I cannot imagine"
How about, "Fashion Meets World of Warcraft?"
Or, "Fashion Meets Trekdom?"
High-end finance and high-end fashion are both basically big scams to take money away from people who have too much of it. I think the two scenes are quite complementary, really.
Posted by guest , Jan 23, 2009 4:24PM
WTF? That is my sister!
Posted by guest , Jan 23, 2009 4:27PM
What the fuck is a hedge fund broker?
Posted by guest , Jan 23, 2009 4:28PM
lookslike someone can't afford a good camera
Posted by StillNoCouch , Jan 23, 2009 4:29PM
Dear EP@Match.com --
Hell, it sure beats what we have here in Minnesota -- "Hey there Babe, that's a mighty sexy parka you're sportin' there ... wanna take a snowmobile out on the lake to do some ice fishin' ? "
Minnesota is truly the land without Mergers and Acquisitions !
If any of the DB ladies ever have the misfortune of spending a week here some afternoon, you know who to call (as long as you don't want to cuddle on the couch).
Posted by guest , Jan 23, 2009 4:32PM
I would have gone with pink slips/pink lips
Posted by guest , Jan 23, 2009 4:38PM
WTF? That's my mom!
Posted by Clown Capital , Jan 23, 2009 4:39PM
Unless any of those whores can figure out a way to suck my c*ck from the back (I've never had that before) they can kick rocks...
Posted by guest , Jan 23, 2009 4:45PM
That such events took place in the past, that's the joke. And that there is a so called model, with cankles, ridiculous.
And what self-conceited prick comes up with words like "fashionista"?
Posted by guest , Jan 23, 2009 4:48PM
I was there my dad was not.
01/2009 Fashionista meets Finance
03/2005-present Goldman Sachs
06/2001-06/2005 MIT
06/2004-08/2004 Goldman Sachs
01/2003-05/2004 Altman Vilandrie
06/2003-08/2003 Lazard
06/2002-08/2002 Lazard
09/1997-06/2001 Rye Country Day School
Posted by guest , Jan 23, 2009 4:49PM
(Fashion meets finance attendees)
highly correlated with
(low fiduciary responsibility)
Posted by mrpink , Jan 23, 2009 4:49PM
omfg. I am blinded by the cankle!
-mrp
Posted by guest , Jan 23, 2009 4:53PM
@20 where did you find little Thain's bio?
Posted by guest , Jan 23, 2009 4:53PM
Afro-Chinese???? WTF it's not 2007 anymore. The preferred nomenclature is now Chinegro.
Posted by guest , Jan 23, 2009 4:55PM
Afro-Chinese???? Where have you been, the official nomenclature is now Chinegro.
Posted by guest , Jan 23, 2009 5:02PM
@18 Nice
"Do something strange for a little bit of change"
Posted by guest , Jan 23, 2009 5:09PM
Thanks, EP, that made my afternoon. BTW, I think your writing has improved since you started.
Have a great weekend, Blogistas.
Posted by guest , Jan 23, 2009 5:14PM
@23 His mom gave it to me after she did me a favor. Her old man was busy with decorating or something.
Posted by guest , Jan 23, 2009 5:15PM
Who are these small cock douche bag bankers who can't find their own dates?
Posted by guest , Jan 23, 2009 5:22PM
Mommas, don't let your babies grow up to be hedge fund brokers ...
Posted by guest , Jan 23, 2009 5:23PM
Hedge fund broker?
Posted by guest , Jan 23, 2009 5:24PM
broker or broken?
Posted by guest , Jan 23, 2009 5:27PM
@25 rofl
I'll have a venti soy-chinegro and a blueberry scone please...
Posted by guest , Jan 23, 2009 5:31PM
@20
Who does your daddy know at Lazard? We don't take Freshmen or Sophomore interns unless they've made the face to cock connections with Bruce.
Posted by guest , Jan 23, 2009 5:37PM
@34 Mmmm Bruce gargle
Posted by SausageOfDoom , Jan 23, 2009 5:53PM
I would like to add to my list of "Who Do You Want To See Dead?"
Posted by guest , Jan 23, 2009 6:01PM
Is that Diamond and Tatiana at the DJ booth?
Posted by Anal_yst , Jan 23, 2009 6:37PM
If I remember the last one, the only "fashionistas" that showed up were a few remotely decent looking girls that likely paid (or did tfp, look it up) with "professional" photographers but never did a single real "modeling" gig in their life, mixed in with a few advertising/pr/"fashion"/publishing types with daddys' credit card who fancy themselves fashion forward.
Of course, the "financiers" were no better, to be fair, but that's not what this is really about (right?)
Posted by guest , Jan 23, 2009 6:54PM
@15 (StillNoCouch)
You're stuck in MN, too are you? Yeah, I agree - the scene isn't too great. To say the least. But then I have no money & drive a Honda Civic so I suspect the 'scene' for me is never going to be great...
Posted by guest , Jan 23, 2009 8:04PM
@18
I wanna know what that be like!
Posted by guest , Jan 23, 2009 11:55PM
Absolut is trash.
But this mixer is a great idea. Models out of work, bankers out of work, maybe they can pay for it with their unemployment checks and LEH stock certificates.
Posted by guest , Jan 24, 2009 3:05AM
I think that was a typo - it's "hedge fund, broker"
Posted by guest , Jan 24, 2009 10:08AM
Is that wideclops in pic 2?!?!
Posted by guest , Jan 24, 2009 10:26AM
@37
In the dj booth, that's Itchy and Scratchy!
Posted by guest , Jan 24, 2009 3:51PM
@42 who is gonna date just a hedge fund.. i mean.. its just a limited partnership arrangement..
could be tough to take out to a nice dinner
Posted by guest , Jan 24, 2009 5:34PM
WhyTF would TGFD ever want to go to a f'kd-up party like that one? I wouldn't have gone even if I were still drinking the way I was back in the 70's.
BTW, for those of you making fun of what you call "cankles" in the 1st photo, perhaps you clowns could post some photos of your own fucking ankles so the rest of us can laugh too.
The Guy from Delaware
Posted by guest , Jan 25, 2009 3:01AM
hahaha. love that GFD.
anyway, last years pictures of this event were much, much better
Posted by american bandersnatch , Jan 25, 2009 9:37AM
TGFD - I have great looking ankles (my best feature). But unless I've misjudged the mostly male DealBreaker readership, there's minimal demand for pictures of my or other men's ankles.
Posted by guest , Jan 25, 2009 9:44AM
TGFD for president.
Posted by guest , Jan 25, 2009 1:06PM
Kankles and Bottles.
Posted by guest , Jan 25, 2009 5:11PM
TGFD is the biggest f-ing tool ever. Go back to DE and fricking stay there for the good of mankind.
Posted by Investorcluzo , Jan 25, 2009 5:50PM
@47 - I'll take that as a compliment since I provided the pics last year. after last year's shenanigans I couldn't go back, so they got the jv squad...
@51 - I believe TGFD is already in DE, so he can't "go back"
Posted by trojan , Jan 25, 2009 9:24PM
@20
RCDS? Really? couldn't afford to go to Brunswick? or too dumb?
Posted by guest , Jan 25, 2009 9:46PM
This story/pic gallery is why Manhattan now = Iceland on the Hudson
Posted by guest , Jan 26, 2009 2:22AM
worst. pictures. ever.
Posted by guest , Jan 26, 2009 1:30PM
Iceland still throws better parties than this wait-ten-minutes-for-a-drink bullsh*t.
Posted by guest , Jan 26, 2009 3:25PM
"stunner" my ass.
short nyc.