Do Bankers Do Yin & Yang?
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Bankers and Creative Types. A match made in heaven? Or do birds of a feather flock together?
Last night I went out to pull a banker. The reason was simple: the day before, my (very adorable, fabulous and successful) single friend was in The City for a meeting at the end of the day and called me to announce, "There is a lot of eye candy in The City around 6 p.m. Shall we go there instead of the West End?"
It was a gorgeous evening and the lawn of Le Coq d'Argent was packed. Bottles of Veuve Clicquot on the grass, shoes scattered, jackets strewn across the hedges (surely that pisses management off) - and then it struck me. While there were clearly lots of colleagues out drinking (dressed equally well in pinstriped suits), there were also lots of bankers with non-bankers. Men in ties with girlfriends in jeans and halter tops (surely not suitable for a day at the Brothers Lehman), and women in suits with boyfriends in trainers and cargo pants (straight from their Soho post-production jobs).
So who's searching for whom? Is it the non-banker who wants the banker, or the banker who wants the non-banker? Of the bankers I know, it's an even split - half are with other bankers, and half are with architechts, graphic designers, chocolate makers and at least one is with a lifestyle/media/former rock chick.
Anyway, if you're a banker who's nice (yes, nice - we're over the jerk thing), attractive (ideally tall) and between the ages of 35-40, please make yourself known. I might have just the (cool, non-banker) girl for you.
madame.b@hereisthecity.com
It was a gorgeous evening and the lawn of Le Coq d'Argent was packed. Bottles of Veuve Clicquot on the grass, shoes scattered, jackets strewn across the hedges (surely that pisses management off) - and then it struck me. While there were clearly lots of colleagues out drinking (dressed equally well in pinstriped suits), there were also lots of bankers with non-bankers. Men in ties with girlfriends in jeans and halter tops (surely not suitable for a day at the Brothers Lehman), and women in suits with boyfriends in trainers and cargo pants (straight from their Soho post-production jobs).
So who's searching for whom? Is it the non-banker who wants the banker, or the banker who wants the non-banker? Of the bankers I know, it's an even split - half are with other bankers, and half are with architechts, graphic designers, chocolate makers and at least one is with a lifestyle/media/former rock chick.
Anyway, if you're a banker who's nice (yes, nice - we're over the jerk thing), attractive (ideally tall) and between the ages of 35-40, please make yourself known. I might have just the (cool, non-banker) girl for you.
madame.b@hereisthecity.com
Here Is The Writer : Madame B
Foreign-born Madame B thinks she's a City girl, but mostly just walks our streets checking things out and searching for the best wi-fi hotspots offered by The Cloud. You can spot her typing furiously on her shiny white MacBook, wearing dark sunglasses and drinking a glass of champagne. She's one half of the Shopaholics, which might explain things...
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