“I Mean…What?!?” – Abe Gurko

In support of Japan Fashion Week, we invite you to check out what the Japanese designers are up to this week. Please visit their website that has been created to keep the world in touch with their current market. Lord knows, when New York City was in the midst of Mercedes Benz Fashion Week in 2001 on that fateful morning of September 11, the loss and devastation that impacted this city and the entire fashion industry was heavy and deep. So too, with a heavy heart, are the people in the Japanese fashion industry trying to “act as if” and… Read More »

For those of you who have been reading I Mean…What?!? for a while, you might recall in my many Manzie Reports from last year and my observation that Gina Lollobrigida Orange was the new black. Naturally, I was being facetious because the way they were showing orange on the men’s runways in Milan and Paris, you would have to be insane to be caught dead walking the streets in half of these get ups, rather, you would get the shit kicked out of you by a pack of homophobes. Fortunately, orange in regards to menswear, never really took off, but… Read More »

Have you heard about MiMA? Can you guess what it is? Nope, guess again. If you live in Manhattan or Miami and are familiar with the nicknames certain neighborhoods, well, here’s one that takes the cake. MiMA stands for Middle Manhattan. No, that is not Hell’s Kitchen. Somehow that neighborhood has become hip. No, MiMa is trying to claim it is the new cool part of town. The ad campaign plastered around New York City is from a real estate developer, Related, who has built a monstrosity of a structure at 42nd Street and 12th Avenue near the Hudson River,… Read More »

In what surely was Pia Toscano‘s luckiest day, last Thursday the stunning songbird got booted off American Idol to a shocked studio audience and a sobbing Jennifer Lopez. But sob not, because Jimmy Iovine signed her for a record deal as soon as the show ended. Here’s the weird bit, on Wednesday night, I had a feeling that Pia was going to get booted off and through all 10 seasons of Idol, I have never called to vote for anyone. Not even Fantasia Barrino. But I was compelled to call that 866 Pia number like a dozen times. When I… Read More »

Greetings from having internet again. Ugh, I was a wreck. In the midst of waiting for the Verizon man today, biting nails, cursing and screaming at the innocent tech support person on the phone who was located in Mexico, as it goes, I got a text from a friend who invited me to see Charlie Sheen at Radio City Music Hall. My assistant said, “You have to go!” Somewhere in my moment of insanity from the call to Mexico, I had enough clarity of mind to respond, “You didn’t actually buy those tickets, did you?” We bantered back and forth… Read More »

Not that I am superstitious, and surely not because I am an astrologer, but clearly, I am being effected by Mercury being in retrograde, which sadly continues approximately three weeks. The day it started I Mean What went funky and now that we are in it my business website ABE NYC is acting up as well. Needless to say it gets worse because Verizon has to send a technician over to my place because my DSL line is shot. This is spooky. Somewhere over the rainbow there’s an evil gnome who is playing with my head by screwing up the… Read More »

When the global economy took a nosedive back in September 2008, the whole world changed. The perception of what is cool and the reality of what is sellable had to be revisited. At that time, the mens runway shows in Paris, Milan and New York featured a look that catered to what I called Manzies, and it was the end of an era. For those of you who don’t know, or want a refresher course… Q. What is a Manzie? A. A Manzie is not a Pansy or a Dandy. A Pansy doesn’t necessarily dress effeminately to be teased by… Read More »

As a matter of fact, Beverly Hills Fabulous is so fabulous that it makes the word fabulous not fabulous enough. While channel surfing on Saturday night, don’t feel sorry for me, I was out to dinner with friends and could not sleep, but I digress. Anyhoo, I stumbled upon Beverly Hills Fabulous on VH-1. Now, if you are at all a fan of The Real Housewives of Atlanta on Bravo, do yourself a favor and DVR this show. The show takes place in a Beverly Hills hair salon called Elgin Charles. Hilare barely describes it. Think Church Ladies meets self-anointed… Read More »

Arrest me for making this comparison, but both of these outspoken fringe-element characters, Pastor Terry Jones, being incredibly evil, and Jimmy McMillan, The Rent Is Too Damn High Guy, being hilariously right have one unmistakable thing in common: their facial hair. When these guys are not in front of the cameras spewing utter nonsense–again, one being extraordinarily evil, like Charles Manson evil, versus hilarious, like will-never-get-elected hilarious–they must be members of Barbershop Quartets. What Rosa Parks was to the Civil Rights Movement, Terry Jones is to the War On Terror. What Terry Jones did by burning the Koran will be… Read More »

Like this comes as a surprise to anyone? Shame on those people to ran to buy tickets to listen to Charlie Sheen rant about nothing in the first place. Like he put together some kind of amazing show in one week? People were leaving in throngs and asking for their money back.  I do hope no one was refunded a dime because you get what you deserve. Seriously, who gives a flying cahoot about this nut bag?… Read More »