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more about #fashionmeetsfinance Recently Newly Redundant: I'm a book editor (shudder!) and even *I* can tell from that pic that those are "PR girls," not "fashion girls." more » Rooo sez BISH PLZ: I was going to say, Jenna covered this. NYT should have just repurchased your article. more » secretlycontroversial: "The site allowed people to post R.S.V.P.’s, including job titles and salaries... many entries were clearly fictitious ("David" who works in "cougar... more » badmutha: That's really funny! It is like you went to two different parties. Maybe they stayed later? Clearly the couple making out by the door had drunk alot. more » greengrey: Where better to find a man who will pay for you to be a "tennis mom" than in a dull bar? And what man wouldn't want a woman who only wants him (his wa... more » Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith: Whenever I confess to being from New Zealand, the only thing people can ever really say to me is that they heard it's beautiful. I guess it's a valid ... more » shostakobitch: that barely-attainable level of popularity in high school just means you're at the mercy of your own high standards. more » Cunning_Linguist: I'm holding out hope that they'll have an Unemployed Meets Finance soiree. more » bitchyspice: Is anyone else seeing the correlation between "smart" girls and "pretty" girls with the woman from Merill Lynch being turned away? What total and utte... more » applebrown-betty: i really enjoyed this! what awesome writing and observations. i feel really bad for the merill lynch woman and i want to buy her a drink for getting a... more » morninggloria: Jenna, your description of your encounter with the older banker who encouraged you to see "Bruno" reminds me of every single party my company (a large... more » Questioning Everything: This little tidbit cracked me up -- I soon found myself talking to a Jamaican who'd grown up in Crown Heights about that neighborhood's gentrification... more » Suffragettestream the Office Hussy: Wait! Vodka has GLUTEN?! I thought it was made from potatoes more » emilyanne: why do I think this event might have been more entertaining if it had been the men who work in fashion and the women who work in finance? more » Trulymadlyme: Sad panda for that poor female banker! She is more than invited to my weekly Smart Women Who Are Good At Math party. I'm almost relieved Jenna didn'... more » odinsraven: This is my favorite accidental John Hughes eulogy. Thanks, Jenna. more » LadyFabulous: So now I'm tempted to hold a "networking" event I like to call "Awesome Meets Awesome," where, like the name suggests, you must be awesome to get in. ... more » Maritsa: There's a certain kind of popularity that, if you should be so lucky as to experience it at 15 or 16 or 17, deposits in its wake a sense of pure socia... more » emilyanne: The horse thing depresses me too - it's illegal in every other horse racing board in the world and I can not believe that the US continues to allow it... more » Zombie Ms. Skittles: I'm loving the Ellen Olenska thing. I know it says silly things about me that I am so amused by it, but I am (if nothing else) a sucker for a good li... more » -
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New York Times Was Totally Impressed By Fashion Meets Finance
The Times evidently did not go to the same event that I did. Table-dancing? "Plush white cushions on wooden furniture, St. Tropez-style"? Let me tell you, there was nothing of the côte d'azur about that dull, overcrowded bar. [NYTimes] -
#supposedlyfunthings
Doped Race Horses, Ozwald Boateng & Gluten-Free Vodka: Last Night Finance Guys Showed Me The World
When I arrived last night at Fashion Meets Finance — a meet 'n' greet for fashion worker bees and bankers — a woman from Merill Lynch was being unceremoniously turned away at the door for violating the event's gender code.
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#ragtrade
Fran Does Skin Care; Unretouched Shots Of Gisele Emerge
- Fran Drescher is launching a skincare line — called FranBrand — this fall on HSN. The products are organic and paraben-free, because, as Drescher puts it, "Women are schmearing stuff on their décolleté, wondering why we're all getting breast cancer..."
