The mighty have fallen
10.05.11
It was gauche, it was obnoxious and it was a wonderful snapshot of the way we were, the Big Apple in the last throes of blinged-out bottle service fueled by conspicuous consumption.
But then the stock market collapsed, and the industry took a beating worse than a guy in an Hermes tie at a Hells Angels clubhouse. While there wasn’t much to celebrate for the next two years, every few months, the Fashion Meets Finance soiree continued determinedly on, like the string quartet on the deck of the Titanic, until 2010.
The organizers — wanting to reflect the new age in the money business, in which banks put the kibosh on hard partying for public relations reasons — shut it down.They took a yearlong hiatus to rebrand — until Thursday, when an estimated 1,000 male and female revelers gathered at Chelsea restaurant Bar Basque.
Was this the signal that glory days were back again? A triumphant return of NYC gold diggers and the men who love them?
Unfortunately, for the gold diggers, the answer was no.
Source: New York Post