Kill us.
Fashion meets Finance – the New York-based social service that aims to match attractive but relatively poor women with relatively unattractive but rich finance professionals correct gender imbalances between New York bar scenes, is still alive and is about to hold another of their sleazy soirées.
Their reasoning? According to the invite of their Aug. 6th event:
THE RECESSION IS OFFICIALLY OVER! It’s not even just Goldman reporting profits.
2008 was a confusing time, but we are here to announce the balance is restoring itself to the ecosystem of the New York dating community. We fear that news of shrinking bonuses, banks closing and the Dow plummeting confused the gorgeous women of the city who understood that their shelf life is quick and fleeting like a senator’s South American love affair. The uncertainty caused panic which caused irrational decisions – there’s going to be a two year blip in the system where a hot fashion girl might commit to a pharmaceutical salesman (this is so much worse than the expected guy selling mortgages at JP Morgan Chase convincing a fashion girl he’s actually in finance).
Fashion Meets Finance has returned to let the women of fashion know that the recession is officially over. It might be a year before bonuses start inflating themselves again, but it will happen. Invest in the future; feel confident in your destiny. Hold on. It will only be a couple more years until you can quit your job and become a tennis mom.
Puke. Puke. Puke. On so many levels.
However — times have perhaps changed for this group.
FMF’s RSVP list is, as it always has been, available online and it seems that some of the self-proclaimed finance men — no doubt inspired by the recession referred to in the invite — have been taking a bit of creative license with their salaries and/or positions. So far, so predictable.
According to DealBreaker, however, the deception extends not just to the purported-men in finance but also to the women supposedly in fashion, with an American Apparel buyer allegedly using the Facebook photo of a fashion publicist as her own. Scandale.
So now, instead of matching attractive but poor women with unattractive but rich men, which was bad enough to begin with, the event is matching women who have to lie about their looks with men who have to lie about their salaries.
Sounds like a successful evening. Enjoy!
Related links:
Mistresses of the universe – FT Alphaville
IB salary (FMF) datapoint of the day- FT Alphaville