According to the Financial Times, yes, and they’re the secret to Goldman’s success. Unexplored: whether or not the firm would be where it is today if the once “ostentatious and inappropriate dresser” had continued to let his freak-flag fly.
Blankfein is…not the nattiest dresser on the Street; nor is he all roll-up-your-sleeves-and-get-to-work. Instead, he has become a manifestation of sobriety, in a grey or dark two-button, single-breasted suit, medium-width lapels, no trendy touches - and a silk tie with a small geometric pattern.
These are clothes that say: I have nice stuff but it is a background to the real substance of my life. Clothes that do exactly what Blankfein told his employees to do: not spend their bonuses frivolously or too publicly. Clothes that say, “Yes, I may be about to make a shocking amount of money but not by being a financial cowboy.” (You don’t have to agree with this; I’m just translating the look.) They speak softly, and convey a big brain.
Posted by guest , Oct 27, 2009 11:10AM
Try and sell me something with sleeves and I'll fucking kill you.
-CG
Posted by guest , Oct 27, 2009 11:11AM
What does it say? Do you even have to ask?
Posted by guest , Oct 27, 2009 11:14AM
@2 suck on my prestige
-LB
Posted by guest , Oct 27, 2009 11:17AM
14-carat? Where'd he get that, the Piercing Pagoda?
Posted by guest , Oct 27, 2009 11:20AM
LB's gold scrot pretty much speaks for himself. He doesn't need to dance around in a pretty suit.
Posted by guest , Oct 27, 2009 11:23AM
@4, 24-carat risks coming across as ostentatious and inappropriate. Besides, it would be too soft to rein in that raging Hebrew hog.
Try to pay attention.
Posted by guest , Oct 27, 2009 11:29AM
@6 thank you.
-LB
Posted by guest , Oct 27, 2009 11:29AM
This guy looks like shit.
-cg
Posted by guest , Oct 27, 2009 11:32AM
@5
So basically LB goes to GS board meetings and investor calls in the buff. Awesome.
Posted by Bob Sacamano , Oct 27, 2009 11:43AM
Holy Mother of God! Remove that damn photo immediately. It's offensive to us heterosexuals.
Posted by guest , Oct 27, 2009 11:43AM
Wait, you're telling me LB dresses like a banker and not Shia LeBouf's character in WS2? I'm going to talk to Oliver Stone about this...
Posted by Anal_yst , Oct 27, 2009 12:05PM
@11
I think that's exactly what the article is saying. It would seem that Oliver Stone's plan is coming to fruition...
I think alot of people outside Wall Street (etc) think we all still dress in double breasted heavy pinstripe suits and ONLY wear asshole collar shirts etc, etc
Posted by guest , Oct 27, 2009 12:09PM
I'd hit that.
Posted by girl , Oct 27, 2009 12:18PM
@13 me too.
Posted by guest , Oct 27, 2009 12:23PM
Notice that you don't ever see Goldman's people wearing blue shirts with white collars and cuffs. That is, unlesss they are wearing "spats" at the same time.
~K. Lagervittonellis
Gstaad
Posted by guest , Oct 27, 2009 1:24PM
@15...they are called Winchester style shirts.
Shia LaBone
Posted by guest , Oct 27, 2009 1:42PM
It might be hittable if you pull a bag over the head.
Posted by guest , Oct 27, 2009 2:10PM
OK...I'll do it. He looks so regal in that picture.
Posted by guest , Oct 27, 2009 3:00PM
I can't believe FT ran that bullshit piece.
Posted by guest , Oct 27, 2009 3:08PM
I'd hit it also. If I could handle it.
-Shia
Posted by guest , Oct 27, 2009 3:22PM
I bet LB's fishnet is Hermès.
Posted by guest , Oct 27, 2009 3:34PM
I hope to God he wears Everlast on all of his appendages, otherwise there will be a lot more LBs running around the place.
-Greg
Posted by guest , Oct 27, 2009 5:58PM
The suits say, "I'm a responsible businessman,"
but the 14-ct. gold cock ring says, "I'm not ashamed of my big package."
Posted by guest , Oct 27, 2009 6:41PM
"The firm has a reputation for producing menschy, nebbishy types".......hahahaha hahahahah hahahahh.......Man, NYC sucks...hahaha hahaha....NYJew....hahaha....hahahaha..hahahahaha