Ooh-La-La Loni

“Moonlighting” costumer Robert Turturice is doing some moonlighting of his own. Listen hears he’s designed a cancan dress for Loni Anderson to wear on an episode of “Easy Street.” Turturice describes the dress as a period style made of red velvet and taffeta with a black petticoat. The kicker, Turturice says, is a pair of silk velvet boots, the same dark red color as the dress.

Academy Awardrobe

Oscar nominations had hardly been announced Wednesday morning when Nino Cerruti got a call from Kathleen Turner (best actress nominee for “Peggy Sue Got Married”) requesting that he hit the drawing board and come up with a gown for the March 30 ceremony. Cerruti says Turner wants to look “very feminine.”

Glitz Blitz for Spring

Glitz-and-glam dress designer Ellene Warren says she is about to trim her prices 40%. “Women who consistently buy my clothes are either top celebrities or they’re married to millionaires,” she explains. “That’s not very many women.” The first of the bargain-basement price tags goes on Warren’s spring collection, she says. And Heather Locklear, one of her regular customers, will be the first to cash in. “Heather ordered the whole line,” Warren tells Listen.

Tutu for a Tomboy

When England’s knighted rock musician Bob Geldof went shopping for his daughter, he bought her something befitting a 4-year-old related to a knight. He found her a fairy princess outfit. Wanda Fudge, owner of the Kids in Costume shop, says Geldof came into her Melrose Avenue emporium looking for a cowgirl costume for “his little tomboy.” But the Western wear paled in comparison to a lavender tutu, gauze fairy wings, silver tiara and wand. Geldof asked Fudge to wrap up another costume too--a bumblebee outfit complete with hand-painted tunic and a pair of antennas. “I think he’s trying to transform her,” Fudge says.

Shore-to-Shore Couture

Valentino fans, rejoice. The unflappable Italian designer is coming to Amen Wardy’s shop in Newport Beach and bringing his complete couture collection with him. He’s also importing his entire entourage of Italian fitters. This ensures that women who order his $4,000-and-up, custom-made designs will receive the same impeccable shaping as if they’d flown to Europe to buy them. The visit takes place Monday to next Friday.

Living Dolls

The trademark slogan of Mattel’s Barbie is “We girls can do anything.” Now the slogan is a label too. The Hawthorne-based toy maker has come out with its debut collection for spring ’87 of “kicky young separates” for girls ages 6 to 14. Designed by Horizon Apparel in arrangement with Mattel Licensing, the We Girls Can Do Anything collection was launched with a fashion show at Parsons School of Design in Manhattan this week. The line--derived from activewear--was shown, appropriately, on an active group of models--31 young dancers from the Joffrey Ballet School.

Getting Sacked

The garment you’d most like to pull over your head on a bad day--the brown paper sack--has an unexpected link to the fashion world. It’s the designer label or, more accurately, the signature bag. Sack makers are adding workers’ names--stamped discreetly on the bag’s bottom--to instill pride in workmanship and keep a handle on quality control, according to Listen’s sack source Tim Becker, with Willamette Industries’ Buena Park plant. Names like Mike Chaney and Joe Tampke have been appearing on bags for years--but only lately is the practice being used to boost the image of the paper industry, which is acutely aware of plastic’s inroads at the grocery store check-out counter. “I think there are possibly some applications for plastic,” the pro-paper Becker allows. But no one claims the slippery stuff can cover a head with quite the panache of paper.

Shop Talk

The new, 2,000-square-foot Ungaro shop opens March 9 on Rodeo Drive. The first three shopping days are for invitation-only customers, but after that, everyone is invited to browse through the French designer’s spring ready-to-wear, accessories and fragrances. And over on Sunset Boulevard, the new Gallay shop is doing rip-roaring business, says Charles Gallay, who carries all sorts of hot designers but doesn’t want to tout any of them. “I’m no longer victimized by consumers who have been victimized by designers,” Gallay asserts. “I put in my store the things I love. Contemporary women don’t shop for status labels, they shop for things that make them look great.” Nonetheless, we note that Gallay carries the Azzedine Alaia and Romeo Gigli labels.

Emerson Immersion

Amy Irving liked the dress she bought for the Golden Globe Awards so much that she bought two more by the same designer. Listen hears from L.A. designer Bryan Emerson that Irving selected an amber-colored velvet dress with a matching lace scarf at the Maxfield boutique, then added two of Emerson’s crinkled silk dresses, one apple green and one lavender, for her spring wardrobe. Other variations on Emerson’s oversize dresses with their ankle-length skirts have a place in the closets of Dyan Cannon and Veronica Hamel, but Sophia Loren has more. Emerson says Loren now owns four.