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You can’t spend all your time in the hotel, so actress Connie Sellecca of the “Hotel” TV series jumped into a white limo, stage makeup still intact, and sped over to the new Viva boutique on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles to pick up a few things for real life. Store owner Sita Hoyt, a longtime friend of the actress, gave Sellecca the run of the place. “I locked the doors to the public,” Hoyt says. “I kept running outside to feed the meter while Connie tried on clothes.” An hour later Sellecca emerged the owner of some $3,000 in scarfs, belts, cocoon-shape jackets and tops and trousers by Litzah, a Moroccan designer featured in Hoyt’s store. “She said she needed the clothes for a weekend in Palm Springs,” Hoyt says. “She’s going to a surprise party.” Whose? Hoyt says she won’t tell.

Forget about Snoopy the World War I flying ace, think of Snoopy the designers’ darling. Snoopy, along with his sister Belle, is the lucky recipient of clothing designed especially for his 18-inch frame by more than 100 international fashion names. Names such as Jean Paul Gaultier, Mary McFadden, Issey Miyake, Norma Kamali, Albert Nipon, Gianfranco Ferre and Giorgio Armani. What, you might well ask, could Snoopy and Belle do with all those clothes (more than 200 at last count)? Wear them, of course. And that’s exactly what they will be doing from Saturday through Nov. 17 at the art gallery of Cal State Fullerton. The collection comes to Fullerton via Paris, London, Milan and Tokyo, where Snoopy and Belle wowed viewers with everything from Fendi furs to Betsey Johnson haute punk. Show times are noon to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday and 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday. This Saturday, the world’s best-dressed beagles will host a public reception from 7 to 10 p.m.

We don’t know what clothes Morgan Fairchild actually wore to the Bruce Springsteen concert recently, but Santa Monica retailer Bobi Leonard breathlessly reports that the “Falcon Crest” star sported the store’s “starburst” earrings by Belladonna to the big event. They’re made of silver slivers that drop from a modern, artsy-looking clasp, sell for $125, and they happen to be Leonard’s best-selling item, thanks to customers such as Cher, Angie Dickinson and Melissa Gilbert, who have also snapped up pairs. Leonard says Fairchld has bought “tons” of other accessories in the last six months, including belts, bracelets, necklaces and 50 pairs of earrings.

Our London ear, Jo-An Jenkins, visited the Victoria and Albert Museum the other night for what turned out to be a double first: The first time a major fashion show was ever held at the venerable institution and the first time Italian designer Gianni Versace ever launched one of his collections outside of Milan. (It was his spring collection, which he showed to the press later in the week in Milan). Jenkins writes: “The wide, double doors of the ‘V & A,’ as it’s known here, opened onto the building’s Great Hall to reveal cascades of white carnations and a black-tie crowd of guests, most of whom had paid $75 to witness the show. The event attracted a glittery mix of diplomatic, fashion and jet-set personalities, including London designers Jasper Conran, Bruce Oldfield (designer for Joan Collins and the Princess of Wales) and David Sassoon of Belville Sassoon (another favorite of the Princess of Wales). Super-model Jerry Hall, in town to launch her book about life with Mick Jagger, mugged for the cameras. But the star of the evening was Princess Michael of Kent, who lent a royal presence to the event. Jenkins adds that even the true Brits seemed to adore Versace’s sexy, spring styles and his black maillot swimsuits with cutouts that revealed a sea of skin.

First Mrs. Elton John stopped in at the leather-and-suede clothing store, Jean-Claude Jitrois, and bought a skirt and jacket. “Then she found another jacket she said Elton just had to have,” we hear from Gloria Blackburn of the shop. So the next day, Mr. John showed up to take a look. The jacket, a black leather tuxedo-style with tails, is embossed with gold leaf and, indeed, John decided he did have to have it. That and a coat of marabou feathers as well.

‘If I were Dr. Toni Grant, what would I wear?” That’s the question Anne Archer asked herself when she was cast as a radio talk-show psychologist in a CBS “Movie of the Week,” now in production, called “A Different Affair.” Archer had seen the KABC radio personality in real life and concluded that she effectively manages to strike a balance between looking sexy, yet professional. So Archer set out to find clothes that fit a similar bill. From a new designer at Neiman-Marcus named Andrea Jovine, she bought a form-fitting burnt-red knit dress with drop waist and a navy silk blouse with gold monogrammed pocket--very Carole Lombard--worn with a floral fitted sarong skirt. Archer’s character will also wear one outfit each by Krizia, Perry Ellis and Valentino.

Michael Pare, of “Eddie and the Cruisers” fame, has a totally new image. Carrie White, queen of the Beverly Hills hair clippers, says Pare has “joined the corps” in his newest flick, called “Marine Issue.” And for that kind of role he simply couldn’t keep his sensuous, shoulder-length locks. So next time you see him on film, he’ll have what White calls “the most stylish Marine cut anyone ever saw. It’s not a crew because it has shape, but it’s as short as you can take it,” White reports.

Neither Santa Ana winds nor 100-degree heat could keep Lesley Ann Warren (or Listen) from browsing through the Maxfield boutique on Melrose Avenue the other day. When we caught sight of Warren, she was trying on a sweater to beat the heat. It was Icelandic blue, with reindeer racing across it.

Cybill Shepherd, the elegant sleuth of the ABC series “Moonlighting,” turned a little sleazy-looking this week. In the episode’s unusual, ‘40s-style sequences, which were filmed in black and white, she played several roles. For “Bad Rita,” she wore what costume designer Robert Turturice descriptively labels “sexy, almost tacky clothes and lots of cheap jewelry.” What would Carmen Miranda think? That’s her jewelry he’s talking about. Turturice, who had 250 costumes to prepare for the show in only eight days, did a little borrowing to help him out. He used Miranda’s film jewelry for “Bad Rita.” And for “Good Rita,” he borrowed Rosalind Russell’s film hats and those heavenly dresses designer Adrian once created for Hollywood. “They hadn’t been worn by anyone since the ‘40s, and they were in mint condition,” explains Turturice, who has also finished a vintage-costume assignment for the CBS movie “Copacabana,” starring Barry Manilow and Annette O’Toole. For that project, he lined up one of George Raft’s famous polo coats.

Fashion doubles: Joanna Carson and a girlfriend went on a shopping expedition at the Azzedine Alaia shop in Beverly Hills and purchased the exact same things: a green bodysuit and a black bodysuit to wear with green stirrup pants, we hear from Nadine Zanotti of the store. Zanotti saw doubles again when two Hollywood types, Sylvester Stallone and Jill Ireland, stopped by the store on the same day. Each bought an Alaia suit. Ireland chose black knit, to wear with a black bodysuit. And Stallone, shopping for his fiance Brigitte Nielsen, went out with red leather and a pair of red leather gloves to match, Zanotti said.

No need for a sled or toboggan when you’re wearing the unmistakeably different shorts described in the Hammacher Schlemmer & Co. 1985 gift supplement catalogue. These shorts, for the man or woman who thought they had everything, feature a 9 1/2-by-8 1/2-inch plastic shield firmly attached to the derriere region to take you down the slopes without suffering bumps and hard knocks. The sled substitutes are called the Iseltwald Bob Sled shorts. They’re imported from Switzerland and sell for $32.50. The children’s model costs $24.50.