Maybe you don’t know what you’re...
Maybe you don’t know what you’re wearing on Christmas, but Dr. Ruth does. During a recent visit from Manhattan, mass media’s reigning queen of sex therapy was chauffeured directly from LAX to Irit Designs in Beverly Hills, we hear from designer Irit Ehrlich. The diminutive doctor (she’s 4-feet-7) ordered two outfits to wear on her TV show, Ehrlich tells Listen. The one she chose for the Christmas program is black velvet with satin rose details. The other, a burgundy velvet outfit, is for the Valentine’s Day show, Ehrlich says. It was a quick visit, as Westheimer said she was on her way to a guest appearance on the “Hollywood Squares” TV game show, Ehrlich recalls. But before she got away she was invited to a fashion show May 13, sponsored by HELP, the charity organization--with fashions from Irit Designs.
British rocker Rod Stewart isn’t putting mileage just on his frequent-flier card. He’s logging it on local soccer fields as well. Stewart jetted in after his European concert tour last week, donned blue-and-white short shorts and took to the field at Birmingham High in Van Nuys to play with his team, the Exiles. Though his high-voltage performance scores on stage, it wasn’t enough to score a win on the field, and Santa Barbara took it, 2-1. Win or lose, Stewart’s No. 1 fan is still model Kelly Emberg, who cheered him on from the sidelines.
If you rub shopping bags with George Hamilton, Richard Pryor or Joan Collins along Rodeo Drive Sunday, it’s no coincidence. They, and all Beverly Hills residents, have been invited to go spend money. The stores along Rodeo will be open Sunday from noon to 5. To get folks in the holiday buying spirit, owners have arranged for the street to be crowded with Christmas carolers, chestnut carts and the marching band of Beverly Hills High. “It’s a day for the whole family,” says Katie Sweet of Giorgio, who helped coordinate events. She says 10% of all the stores’ profits that day will go to the Beverly Hills Education Foundation. Out-of-towners are welcome too.
Men who wear earrings have often had to endure women’s jewelry departments--and the custom of buying a pair at a time. But Monique Fiola of Anaheim has eliminated both those dilemmas with her new EarD’cor Earware for men. In a recent call to Listen, the 26-year-old explained that her earring line was born when her fiance brought over some “reject computer parts” from work. “All of a sudden we poked one through his ear.” And she’s been making her wiry decorations ever since. Fiola, who also trains restaurant employees for a living, considers her earrings “a little more discreet than women’s earrings,” and they’re “for people who don’t want to have a real hard rock look.” Starting at about $3, the pieces are sold individually or in sets in a few boutiques or through EarD’cor Earware, P.O. Box 9527, Anaheim, Calif. 92802.
Actress Ali MacGraw recently wandered into Tops Malibu, a jewelry and handcrafts boutique, to buy ceramic buttons for a baby-size jeans jacket she was decorating as a gift for Candice Bergen’s little girl. Tops co-owner Judy Walker, in a recent call to Listen, said MacGraw offered to decorate another jacket to display in the shop. MacGraw’s second effort, covered with ceramic zoo animals, hung in Tops for all of a day, Walker said, before actor Larry Hagman snapped it up to give to a grandchild. The cashier at the store that day was another familiar face: actress Jennifer Jones, mother of Tops co-owner and actor Robert Walker.
John Larroquette may be a button-down attorney on TV’s “Night Court,” but he courts a sportier image off camera. On a recent trip to Mr. Guy in Beverly Hills, he picked up a dolman-sleeve sweater, a long cardigan and a reindeer-print crew neck sweater. Mr. Guy sales manager Jack Rogers tells Listen that Larroquette’s taste for trendy designers such as Kenzo and Issey Miyake is new found. When he met Larroquette a few years back “he was sort of a straight dresser,” Rogers confides. “But when he got into the swing of things, he liked the wilder sweaters and wider pants.”
