Cheekbones of Contention: If you’re wondering how...

Cheekbones of Contention: If you’re wondering how your face should look in 1986, tune in the “Supermodel of the World” contest (an expansion of the Ford Model Agency’s “Face of the ‘80s” competition). It’s Monday from 8 to 10 p.m. on Channel 13, live from the Aquarius Theatre in Hollywood. Television viewers will be able to phone in and choose the American entrant who will then vie against 23 international glamour faces, including a contestant from China. Listen asked agency head Eileen Ford for a prediction of what kind of face will work in the coming year: “I always look to what the Italians want. They seem to come up with the new looks first. The Italian agencies, who’ve been scouting in America recently, say they want ‘pretty’ rather than the unusual look that was seen in ’85.” It’s most appropriate that one of the hosts of the show will be “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous” host Robin Leach, because the winner will be facing a financially rich year with a guaranteed $250,000 contract from the Fords.

‘Jewel of the Nile” star Kathleen Turner wears so many outfits by Nino Cerutti in the film that the Paris-based designer gets a special wardrobe credit on screen. And after the filming was over, Turner’s co-star, Michael Douglas, remembered an outfit from one particular scene. Listen hears this from Cerutti’s West Coast representative Mary Hall Ross, who describes the memorable dress as a black-and-red print with deep side slits--and no back. Ross says that during a party after the movie’s New York premiere, “Michael Douglas went up to Nino and started talking about the dress. He told Nino that Kathleen liked it so much she wanted to play that scene with her back to the camera.”

‘The whole world was here for Christmas,” Judy Turner told us breathlessly by phone from Aspen, Colo., where the elite meet to ski. How do you mean? Listen asked. “Well, I invited 70 guests to my fur fashion show and 500 guests showed up.” And they weren’t just your average citizens-off-the-slopes, she explained. “I peeked out from behind the stairs at Andre’s disco, where the show was held, and I was looking straight at Don Johnson, George Hamilton and Brooke Shields. I almost fainted when I realized who they were,” Turner said. The designer said she lives part of the year in Aspen and part in Los Angeles, where her new Fashionique fur business is based. “I design in L.A., the furs are made in Finland, and they’re powder blue, turquoise, pink, purple and other wild shades,” she said. After the show, she added, she was introduced to New York’s master builder Donald Trump, of Trump Towers fame. “He was there with his wife,” Turner said. How did all these people find out about the show? “Andre’s is a very well-known club here in town,” Turner said.

The hottest fashion shows in town are not always on the runway. Consider Wolfgang Puck’s popular new restaurant, Chinois, on Main Street in Santa Monica. On a recent Saturday night, the regulars turned out in a dazzling array of brazenly bizarre outfits: A conservatively coiffed, 60ish woman, for example, was seated at the bar dressed in a black tuxedo (with no shirt), velvet slippers and three white satin bow ties--two were glued to her bosom and one tied at the neck. At a nearby table for four was a man with slicked-back ponytail, gray flannel suit, elegant shirt--and a necktie that had a bandage wrapped around its middle. His date wore a white and black mohawk and huge earrings in the shape of native warriors. In contrast, local resident Ali MacGraw turned out in black stirrup pants, oversize white shirt and Reeboks, while her escort, Bob Evans, wore a plaid wool shirt and jeans.