Fonda Photos Click for Free Versace Duds
Jane Fonda’s found an economic way to update her image. We reported on Jan. 26 that the actress ordered 12 dresses from Milanese designer Gianni Versace, noting that Versace’s dresses average $4,000 for daytime, up to $20,000 for evening. Versace himself gave us that information.
But a call from Fonda spokesman Stephen Rivers in Los Angeles set us straight about the money: “Jane wouldn’t spend that kind of cash on clothes; that’s not her priority,” Rivers explained. She got the clothes in what was “basically a trade,” Rivers said. Here’s what happened: Fonda needed new publicity photos for ’89. She arranged to wear Versace’s clothes in the photos, which is good publicity for the designer. In exchange, the actress ordered four jackets, 10 shirts, some pants, sunglasses and shoes--without having to pay for them.
“But don’t worry about the ethics of it,” Rivers said. “We will report as income the full retail prices of these clothes on Tom Hayden’s Statement of Economic Interest, which all elected officials must file.” (Hayden is Fonda’s husband and a West Los Angeles assemblyman.)
“We don’t want to get into one of those Nancy Reagan binds,” Rivers added, referring to the controversy caused by the former First Lady’s “borrowed” designer clothes.
Tea and Diamonds
Jewelry for horses? Janis Savitt, whose jewelry designs are worn by Mick Jagger, Ashford & Simpson, Luther Vandross, Raquel Welch and Jacqueline Bisset, among others, says she’s designing “incredible things for horses--like silver bits encrusted with precious and semiprecious stones and riding crops with highly ornamental handles.” The New York-based Savitt was here yesterday, hosting tea at Trumps while she showed her people-jewels for a rain-soaked crowd that came to sip and buy. Savitt, in business with her sisters Michelle and Wynne, has won just about every jewelry design award in the books, including three DeBeers diamond awards and a Coty. She says she’s waiting for a family crest to be sent from Saudi Arabia before she can finish her equine designs.
The Skin You’re In
Thanks to skin-care specialist Ole Henriksen, we now know that Diahann Carroll makes her own appointments, is punctual and doesn’t gossip. Carroll dropped by Henriksen’s Sunset Boulevard salon on Monday, via limo, to see if she could be squeezed into his schedule this week. The answer was “yes,” and the next day Carroll was back, via limo, for a beauty routine that Henriksen says “promotes good skin tone and includes a mask made of chamomile extract and honey.”
Runaway Styles
It’s getting to be a habit. A stylist arrives at the store, selects some clothes, calls back and says: “Sorry, the garments won’t be coming back. A check is in the mail.” Sami Dinar, owner of the Beverly Hills menswear store of the same name, says he’s getting used to the scenario. The latest player is Quincy Jones, who took a fancy to two black wool sweaters and a pair of black denim jeans from Dinar’s store. Aside from appearing on Jones in real life, they may show up with him on a magazine cover and an album cover. Just look for lots of buttons. One sweater has six mother-of-pearl buttons, the other has eight.
Post-Baby Body
Kathy Smith’s exercise videos, among them “The Ultimate Workout” and “The Pregnancy Workout,” will be joined this spring by a new addition: “The Post-Pregnancy Workout.” Smith, a new mom herself, recently visited Vera’s Retreat in the Glen, according to owner Vera Brown. Although designed originally for bare-midriff lovers and bikini buffs, Brown’s novel tummy mask seemed just what the doctor ordered for Smith. She also had a body facial while at the Bel-Air skin-care salon. It includes a scrub, a mask and a moisturizing treatment that leave the skin “like satin,” Brown tells us. We’ll find out when we see the video.
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