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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That Gallardo is from that Collectors Rental Club
That Gallardo is from that Collectors Rental Club
You managed to suck the humor out of something that is, inherently, a joke. Well done.
Too Leveraged Sell Out, didn’t read.
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pic 1 = cankles
Casting for tool academy?
Awesome. Just awesome.
haha @6 good eye
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.
“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.
WTF? That is my sister!
What the fuck is a hedge fund broker?
lookslike someone can’t afford a good camera
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).
I would have gone with pink slips/pink lips
WTF? That’s my mom!
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…
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”?
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
(Fashion meets finance attendees)
highly correlated with
(low fiduciary responsibility)
omfg. I am blinded by the cankle!
-mrp
@20 where did you find little Thain’s bio?
Afro-Chinese???? WTF it’s not 2007 anymore. The preferred nomenclature is now Chinegro.
Afro-Chinese???? Where have you been, the official nomenclature is now Chinegro.
@18 Nice
“Do something strange for a little bit of change”
Thanks, EP, that made my afternoon. BTW, I think your writing has improved since you started.
Have a great weekend, Blogistas.
@23 His mom gave it to me after she did me a favor. Her old man was busy with decorating or something.
Who are these small cock douche bag bankers who can’t find their own dates?
Mommas, don’t let your babies grow up to be hedge fund brokers …
Hedge fund broker?
broker or broken?
@25 rofl
I’ll have a venti soy-chinegro and a blueberry scone please…
@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.
@34 Mmmm Bruce gargle
I would like to add to my list of “Who Do You Want To See Dead?”
Is that Diamond and Tatiana at the DJ booth?
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?)
@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…
@18
I wanna know what that be like!
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.
I think that was a typo – it’s “hedge fund, broker”
Is that wideclops in pic 2?!?!
@37
In the dj booth, that’s Itchy and Scratchy!
@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
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
hahaha. love that GFD.
anyway, last years pictures of this event were much, much better
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.
TGFD for president.
Kankles and Bottles.
TGFD is the biggest f-ing tool ever. Go back to DE and fricking stay there for the good of mankind.
@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”
@20
RCDS? Really? couldn’t afford to go to Brunswick? or too dumb?
This story/pic gallery is why Manhattan now = Iceland on the Hudson
worst. pictures. ever.
Iceland still throws better parties than this wait-ten-minutes-for-a-drink bullsh*t.
“stunner” my ass.
short nyc.