Web Gems

I spent most of yesterday trying to stay quiet and still in efforts to stay relatively cool in this heatwave. Luckily sitting on a couch with a laptop on my lap in front of my fan is pretty quiet and still, so I checked on the fashion blogs/sites to see what I missed while I was shopping.

1. MISSHAPES

The MisShapes, if you've never heard of them, are a DJ trio who hosted a weekly party at Lower East Side club Don Hills last summer. They've been DJing clubs in NYC since 2002, toured with the likes of Peaches, The Killers, Bloc Party and Cansei de Ser Sexy (aka CSS, the Brazilian band who wrote that "Music is My Girlfriend... Music is my hot hot sex") and DJed several fashion shows. I tried to convince my friends to go to this party all last summer and since they don't dance or go out to clubs I had no one to go with. With a lot of moping and bitching, I guilt-tripped one of my friends to go over Thanksgiving, when I'd be in the city next. The party closed in September. I was so mad, until I read this little gem. THE MISSHAPES ARE BACK! They hosted their relaunch party last night and are holding events and parties, but not on a regular basis. Oh joy.

2. FASHIONMEETSFINANCE

The innocently named party is a happy hour mixer run by Pocket Change for the Y chromosome heavy Financial industry gents, and the double X-ers in the fashion industry. In other words rich guys and pretty girls (or at least men with earning potential and well dressed women). There is a screening process, based on your position in your company. I do not know how I would feel about this if I was in my late 20s, single and/or in the fashion industry but between this video and this blurb:

"In New York City you are defined by what you do and the dating world has to follow the same rules... Women in fashion need men who can facilitate their pre-30 marriage/retirement plan, and men in finance need women who will allow them to leverage their career in their dating equity... FashionMeetsFinance facilitates destiny by purifying the dating pool bringing together only the most appealing populations in the New York dating game."

my gag reflex started up. Is this what I have to look forward to? Men thinking that they have to afford to buy me Louboutins to get my attention? I mean... a pair would be nice... but I'd rather be self sufficient than dependent on my 6-figure earning boyfriend/boytoy/husband.

edit: I am judging the superficiality of the event, but i guess I have to remember that both industries uniquely superficial... and I don't think that's wrong. Meh... I'll have to think this one through a little more. I think I also have a bias because I didn't an internship with UBS last summer, haha!
Oh and K- if you ever want to get me Louboutins I would not say no. Haha, just don't do it because you think it'd make me like you more. Besides I'm more of a bag girl. Good vegan "leather" and no logos. Luv u!