Facebook Fashion

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Is Facebook Frump the new black? The Daily Beast sure thinks so. "Just as Oliver Stone did with the sharkskin-suited bankers of Wall Street and Bret Easton Ellis did with the label-obsessed Patrick Bateman of American Psycho—both iconic, fashion-defining works of an earlier opulent era—director David Fincher and his team have given us a new sartorial standard for success in the Internet age. And that standard is: dumpy. 'The wonderful thing about Mark is he looks like he doesn’t care at all what he wears, but in a funny way he’s created a fashion,' said Jacqueline West, costume director for The Social Network. 'It’s the new banker.'" [Daily Beast]