Starlets take note: Hair-cutting whiz Allen Edwards...
Starlets take note: Hair-cutting whiz Allen Edwards tells us he’s got his hands on the hairdos of three newer names around Hollywood. They are Deborah Foreman (“Valley Girl,” “My Chauffeur”), Whitney Kershaw (“Quicksilver”) and Susie Ursitti of “Teen Wolf” fame. From where we sit, Edwards’ latest starlet look boils down to one essential detail--a set of full and fluffy bangs. Other do details range from short bobs to medium-length wedges to long crinkles.
She wanted to freshen up a little bit before she hit the road again. So Christy Fichtner, the reigning Miss U.S.A., dropped into the Georgette Klinger salon on Rodeo Drive for a personalized skin-care treatment that lasted 4 1/2 hours. We don’t know all the details, but we do know that in addition to a facial and a manicure, Fichtner stocked up on supplies. She must have been in a Rodeo Drive buying mood, because she arrived at the salon carrying two Giorgio shopping bags and expressed interest in locating a Ralph Lauren comforter to give as a gift. We can only assume that when she left, her pampered complexion was rosy enough to coordinate nicely with her hot-pink linen jump suit and pale-pink snakeskin pumps.
Farrah Fawcett stopped in at the Fogal legwear shop in the Rodeo Collection to pick up two pairs of sheer black hosiery the other day and just missed Barbra Streisand’s personal shopper, who ordered a dozen pairs of black fishnet hose for Streisand to wear in a new movie she is filming with Richard Dreyfuss. That’s what store owner Joan Wills tells Listen. We also hear that the shop’s newest item is a legwear accessory--a pair of lightweight cotton gloves to wear while putting on and taking off hosiery. “They’re to help prevent snags and pulls,” says Ann Marie Cairn of the Fogal company, who adds, “If you’ve spent $60 on a pair of hose you would want to be careful.”
Not even Their Royal Highnesses, Andrew and Sarah (the couple that has everything) had these--until President and Mrs. Reagan ordered a set of Steuben “marriage goblets” for the newlyweds. How to describe them? Let us count the ways: elaborate, engraved with branches, leaves and oranges as well as their wedding date and first names (“Andrew” on one, “Sarah” on the other). Ornate, to say the least. The style, a wineglass with a ball in the stem, is a revival of a style popular in England and the Netherlands during the 16th and 17th centuries.
Some models never get too starry-eyed. Carrie Miller from Fresno, who was named Super Model of the World in 1983, sums up a model’s look with: “Either it’s there or it’s not, and it’s nothing to take too personally.” Miller, 21, will dispense her modeling advice this weekend when she participates in a seminar at JW Robinson’s for entrants in the 1987 Super Model of the World contest, sponsored by Ford Models. She’ll be at stores in Santa Anita, Puente Hills, Santa Monica and Sherman Oaks Saturday and Sunday. Entry deadline is Aug. 31 (forms are in the Red Bag departments), and a regional winner will be chosen Sept. 20. Judging for the international winner will be held next year. As for Miller, who called Listen from New York, the 5-foot, 10-inch brunette sees modeling as strictly business. “I’m in this for the money. That’s the bottom line. Otherwise, it doesn’t intrigue me.” Miller says she plans to enter UCLA to train for a second career: “In investments.”
We can get it for you below wholesale. That’s the word from the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising, which will hold its annual “Dollars for Scholars” sale this week. Bargains include fashions and fabrics from well-known firms, such as Koret, Catalina, Ellen Tracy, Campus Casuals, DeWeese and Levi Strauss. The sale takes place at FIDM, 818 West 7th St., today and Saturday and Monday through Aug. 22. Hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
For Shari Lewis, the requisite evening gown is a sort of sight gag. It looks like a floor-length, bejeweled dress, but it turns into a clown suit. Lewis commissioned designer Ret Turner, who works with Bob Mackie, to make three such outfits for her stage show--one in pink, one in white and one in yellow and white. She wears a pair of polka-dot pants hidden underneath. At one point in the show, says Frank Brown, a spokesman for Lewis, she tucks the gown into the pants, then puffs it up for a roly-poly clown look.
‘The Rise and Fall of the Female Breast,” a lecture by costume curator Edward Maeder of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, is by far the most daring title we’ve heard in some time. We checked with Maeder for more details about the talk, which he’ll give next month. He tells us he’s arranging his research in chronological order and basing it on dress styles rather than female anatomy. Therein lies the story. “In 1789, bosoms were under the chin,” he says. “In 1828, they were in front of the shoulders, and in 1901 the mono-bosom was the fashion. Those were the days when the bodice of a dress formed a pouch over the waistline.” We asked Maeder, who’ll deliver his full report Sept. 3 in Santa Fe, N.M., during a convention of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, whether he was prepared to talk about the place of the bosom today. “We’re supporting it, for aesthetic reasons” was his quick reply. “We’re in a phase when firm bodies are the fashion.”
How does a housewife turn into a rock star? Marshall Bank says his wife did it by discovering a stone in the pocket of her new stone-washed jeans. Convinced that the commercial process of stone-washing could be duplicated at home, Ginger Bank sold her husband on the idea. Now she is vice president of the new Creative Concepts company, which sells the Authentic Rock. Available at the Broadway, the $6 piece of High Sierra volcanic debris supposedly gives fresh jeans a worn look in 15 to 30 minutes. Marshall claims the method, which requires elbow grease but no washing machine, was originally tested on teen-agers--from preppies to (what else?) punk-rockers. And because the special stone can also be used like a pen, the possibilities for personal touches seem endless. “Sorority girls,” Marshall tells us, “have already been writing Greek letters on the backsides of their jeans.”
The concept of a “shop on wheels,” in which a designer or merchant brings the store’s contents to the shopper’s home, has been around for a while. But Gardena-based designer Pepi Weitzman has added new twists. She’s expanded the idea by featuring clothes in larger sizes (14 and up). She says her Pepi Presents company also offers “fashion therapy parties” to help a customer and a group of her friends “define themselves through fashion.” It’s the clothing equivalent of a Tupperware party for the women of South Bay--Weitzman’s regular beat.
Hollywood Boulevard’s star-studded sidewalks will be getting some fashionable competition from Manhattan’s Seventh Avenue. This fall, the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York will begin work on a sidewalk plaza in front of the school on Seventh Avenue, featuring bronze-star plaques honoring fashion-industry leaders. According to FIT’s Nancy Yedlin, no decisions have been made as to who has star quality, but she says, “it will be made up of people from all segments of the fashion industry.”
Want to look like handsome “Dallas” star Dack Rambo? You can, but just briefly. Rambo introduced his own line of fashionable underwear, called “Underware by Dack Rambo,” at a preview in Dallas. Rambo says he’s wanted to get involved in apparel ever since starring in the TV series “Paper Dolls,” which was set in the fashion industry.
Best-dressed devil: Jack Nicholson, who plays a contemporary satanic type in “The Witches of Eastwick,” currently filming in Cambridge, Mass., will wear several designs by Nino Cerruti. The designer says he wishes he could always tell his production people his clothes were for Nicholson. “When they found out they were for him, they finished them in record time,” Cerruti tells Listen.
