Heiress Unveiled
Deb of the Decade Cornelia Cochrane Churchill Guest has indeed signed on as a kind of ‘80s Lady Godiva for Oggi International of Beverly Hills, the hair-care firm. The aspiring actress, who lives in Los Angeles, will be Oggi’s model and spokeswoman, according to a memo in our mail. We quote: “Wrapped only in voluminous tendrils, Miss Guest, heiress to the Phipps family steel fortune and goddaughter to the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, will grace the company’s national billboard campaign and consumer magazine ads.” The controversial ads, the memo says, will be unveiled on Aug. 25 “at an undisclosed location.” That location turns out to be Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles and Times Square in New York, according to JoAnn Miller, Oggi International’s director of communications, who tells Listen the larger-than-life Cornelia was “undressed and wrapped in hair for the ads.”
Pass Go to Rodeo
Who needs Boardwalk and Park Place when you can go directly to Rodeo Drive? The street now has a place on the special edition Monopoly board that Parker Brothers is producing to help celebrate the city’s 75th anniversary. And the first official playoff game pits no less than Liz Taylor, Jaclyn Smith and Burt Reynolds against one another, during a gala party Aug. 23, hosted by the Beverly Hills Lions Club. Game boards will be on sale that night, and there will be a Laise Adzer fashion show, a big buffet and dancing too. Wanna go? Call the Lions Club, Beverly Hills chapter, for details.
Stocking Up on Girbaud
Shop-hoppers take note: Diane Keaton ordered 20 of the black, fleece-backed, stretch Lycra pants on view at the new Ron Herman shop opening in Brentwood Gardens next week. The pants, by Marithe and Francoise Girbaud, have a high elastic waistband, zippers and leather detailing. The shop will carry only the Girbauds’ clothes, we hear. Herman also owns the Fred Segal Shop on Melrose.
Grand Entrance
Catherine Deneuve walked into the tiny Border Grill restaurant on Melrose Sunday night, speaking melodious French to her two companions. Every man in the place seemed to stop breathing and even the yucca chips appeared to go limp in homage. Deneuve’s luxurious blond hair was long and flowed onto the shoulders of her black blouse, which topped draping black pants with colorful dancing marionettes printed on them. She wore a necklace of pastel-colored stones and big, gold hoop earrings. We tried but couldn’t get close enough to tell you whether she wore her signature fragrance.
Sniffing Out the Unusual
It’s a perfume that promises to “pamper modern identities”--an interesting way of saying it’s for men and women. But that’s not the only thing about Verdigris that caught our eye. The name, of course, is another. It’s a term tossed around most freely in archeological circles, when people actually talk about the green, mold-like patina they see on ancient bronze statues and old copper pots. All this kul-cha is packaged in a vial suspended in a tripod, like the potion holders you see in Egyptology exhibits. Who on Earth ?, we wondered, as we held a picture of Verdigris up to the light. Well, it’s jewelry designer Robert Lee Morris’ first scent, priced at $400 per quarter ounce , and it’s available this month in specialty stores that carry his jewelry--which, come to think of it, often looks verdigrisy itself.
One-Woman Show
It sounds like Candice Bergen will be a one-woman fashion show when she plays a TV news anchorwoman on “Murphy Brown,” a sitcom due out this fall. Recently, Listen reported that she was doing some serious shopping (all for her character, of course) at the Donna Karan showroom in New York. This week, Los Angeles sweater designer Judy Graham of Topaz tells us she made three sweaters for Bergen’s TV wardrobe. They’re all turtleneck styles, two in blue and one in gray. Graham says it was the show’s costume designer, Bill Hargate, who asked her to get the knitting needles going. Graham also tells us she made Dolly Parton “a teensy-weensy sweater for a teensy-weensy woman” that Parton will wear in a movie she’s filming now in Tennessee.
A Family Affair
Sounds as if Shari Belafonte-Harper is a chip off the old block. She and her mother went on a shopping expedition and came back with three pairs of shoes each. For Shari, flats in blue and green and flats in black and white (to go with a sweater she bought herself in the men’s department), along with a pair of white cowboy boots. “She started dancing when she put on the boots,” we’re told by mystery saleswoman Natalie (“no last name, please”) at the Shoe and Clothing Connection in Encino. For Shari’s mom, two pairs of dressy pumps, one pair of flats.
Theodore Debuts in Hot Spot
Today, Beverly Hills retail maven Herb Fink opens his new shop, called By Theodore, in Brentwood Gardens, which is turning out to be the West Side’s hottest new fashion spot. Fink features the labels of Byblos, Jet Set, Changes and Go Silk in his 1,300-square-foot shop with stainless steel shelves and bleached wood floors. The scent you detect in the store will undoubtedly be that of Spoiled, Fink’s new fragrance.
Steppin’ Out in Tennies
Invitations to last week’s party celebrating the opening of Reeboks’ business-development office in West Los Angeles told guests: “U.B.U.” Amidst all the colorful Reeboks that were padding from one executive suite to another, there was, surprise, a pair of L.A. Gear shoes. We also spotted “Dynasty” star John Forsythe, who was very much himself (or Blake Carrington, we couldn’t be sure) in a gray suit, red-and-blue paisley tie and blue oxford-cloth shirt. We were so mesmerized by his smile, we forgot to look at his feet.
Armani’s Army in Training
Gabriella Forte, five-star general in Giorgio Armani’s fashion army, has arrived from Milan for a month’s stay. She’ll lead local troops from now until the new Rodeo Drive Armani shop opens, during which time she’ll “finish hiring and training the staff, explain the merchandise to all new personnel,” and generally oversee the shop launch. Forte, 39, is petite, pretty, smart and a great conversationalist. But she is not one to tolerate imperfection. Our bet is that the Armani shop will tick like a hundred-year clock.
She’s Plum Adventurous
Color Carrie Hamilton’s lashes electric blue, teal or plum. The actress was in the Georgette Klinger Salon on Rodeo Drive recently for her regular facial and bought the new mascara shades. “She thought they would look good with her very pale complexion,” salon co-manager Maureen Dunbar tells us. Hamilton, last seen in the film “Tokyo Pop,” was supposedly having dinner with her pop that night, and Listen hears she painted her lashes plum for the occasion.
Giving Clout to New China
In a further blending of fashion and home furnishings, we hear that Bill Blass, James Galanos and Michael Novarese will all appear on Nov. 13 at Lucy Zahran’s crystal, silver and china shop in the Beverly Center. The reception, a benefit for children with AIDS, will feature table settings created by each of the three fashion designers, using French crystal by Saint Louis, established in 1767. Zahran, a former vice president of I. Magnin, Los Angeles, has shops in South Coast Plaza, Manhattan Beach as well as Beverly Center.
