You know you're a major public figure when newspapers like the Financial Times start spilling lots of ink on your appearance. Goldman Sachs (GS) CEO Lloyd Blankfein was given the star treatment recently. One columnist dissected his appearance and what it means about the firm and Wall Street as a whole. It was meant to be funny.

It noted that Blankfein was once overweight and was considered one with questionable sartorial judgment--which fit right in at his firm. Now that he's CEO, he's become much trimmer and a better dresser. Still, the columnist concludes, "He's not the nattiest dresser on the Street; nor is he all roll-up-your-sleeves-and-get-to-work. Instead, he has become a manifestation of sobriety, in a grey or dark two-button, single-breasted suit, medium-width lapels, no trendy touches--and a silk tie with a small geometric pattern. These are clothes that say: I have nice stuff but it is a background to the real substance of my life." Not everyone gets dissected this way, and its one of the pitfalls of success. 

For more:
- here's the column

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