It Was Bad Enough That Bear Stearns Employees Were Stripped of Their Dignity

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"We only had about $50,000 worth of final touches [to go], and the wife called me last week and said stop," said [the designer,] whose work has been featured in Vanity Fair and Elle Décor. "She said they're not poor, and are never going to be poor. But their capacity for discretionary income for things like window valances just went out the window."
But everyone knows that valances are a crucial part of a well-dressed home! What's other home accents will be foregone in these terrible times? Sconces? Bookends? Stenciling? Will everyone go back to being minimalist? This is much more serious than we thought. It really is the eighties all over again.
Execs Bear-ly Surviving [NYP]

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