“I Mean…What?!?” – Abe Gurko

Last night’s Costume Institute Gala was the New York City version of the Oscar Red Carpet. As Joan Rivers will surely attest this Friday night on Fashion Police, there were hits and plenty of misses. Before I share my best and worst list, I must give a shout out to Stella McCartney. This really was her night. Sure, Sarah Burton was the star of the night politically, but in terms of which designer had the best showing on the glamor-pusses? It was Stella by a mile because she dressed some of the major players of the evening.… Read More »

How obsessed are we about New Year’s Eve? Are you one of those people that have be out and about or those devout stayer-inners who always apologetically, or over-compensated-ly wear their plans like a badge of honor. “I don’t need to be out amongst humans, I am confident in my own skin.” Well, that, or you have no plans. I was reading about the Las Vegas opening of the Cosmopolitan Hotel and their 25 million dollar New Year’s Bash starring Jay Z, Beyonce, Coldplay and Gwyneth Paltrow. Granted it sounds like a grand old time but relax Marlene. Sounds like… Read More »

Billy Reid. (Silence) Billy Reid. (Thump, he fainted and fell to the floor) Billy Reid. Well, maybe he didn’t faint, but the immediate surprise in the room was surely palpable. One would have expected him to get up to the podium and say, “Awww, shucks.” Perhaps Billy Reid received the prestigious CFDA Award ($300,000 bucks) because fashion, as in politics, is turning it’s other cheek to the conservative right. After all, Billy Reid is based in Florence, Alabama, the Bible Belt or is it the new fashion capital? Yes, Billy Reid’s clothing line is cool, but is it Earth shattering?… Read More »

Ladies, get out your underwear. In light of the hard hit economy, and the teetering luxury goods business, there’s a great way to be up to the minute in fashion without buying a thing. The answer? Wear nothing. I kid you not. I am not saying buy nothing new. I mean wear actually nothing. Now you can  prance around in your skivvies AND be in vogue. How fantastic is that? I’m a little jealous because men cannot get away with that, whereas women can. I have been grappling with myself (schizophrenia) about this lingerie as outerwear fashion trend that has… Read More »

The other day I sarcastically declared that it was World Fashion Week. It was actually a tee-hee for all the globetrotting editors, huffing and puffing to and from all ports of call, being beckoned to report on all the fashion news. I had no idea that I was 100% correct…that there is, in fact, this weird World Wide Fashion Week going on, yet no one had officially declared it such…except me…by accident…in jest. Now, let me immediately interject that in the case of Madrid and New Zealand (I kid you not) that these fashion weeks are a total fotz. Why… Read More »