The Circus Master

The P. T. Barnum of the Paris catwalks, Thierry Mugler, will be the headliner for the sixth annual fashion show sponsored by the California Fashion Industry Friends of AIDS Project Los Angeles. Mugler, known for his outrageous presentations and celebrity models, plans to produce the entire extravaganza himself and include a retrospective of his work, says the show’s executive chairman, Michael Anketell. Ticket prices for the April event will range from $200 to $350. Information: (213) 392-9894. * MODEL JOCKS: Now that celebrity athletes have turned sportscaster, designers are getting into the sporting life. The 25 celebrity athletes participating in the Special Olympics last month--including Nadia Comaneci, Olga Korbut and Evander Holyfield--all donned classic navy blue jackets designed and donated by Giorgio Armani. The CBS anchors who are slated to cover the 1992 Winter Olympics in France in February will wear designer outfits from Studio City-based Clothe Inc. And two other deals already etched in contractual stone: Paula Zahn will be wearing Ferragamo sportswear and accessories and Andrea Joyce will be outfitted by Anne Klein.

* FASHIONABLE FLASK: It’s almost too trendy to mention--designer bottled water. Not the water, the bottle. Philippe Starck, known to interior decorator groupies as the man who created New York’s post-modern-neo-retro Paramount hotel, has put his hipster hand to Glacier bottled water. It is made of plastic resin (not the water, the bottle) with an aqua-colored push-pull spout instead of a screw-on cap. If you can’t afford Starck’s interior design fees, console yourself with one of his bottles: They cost only 99 cents.

* THE ICE MAN COMETH: Will audiences go bananas over the sunglasses Vanilla Ice wears in “Cool as Ice”? The film opens today and 15,000 replicas of the unisex shades are waiting for eager customers at Pearle Vision Centers. The glasses, officially known as Cazal 958, are also available at Sunglass Hut and Lens Crafters, according to Cheryl Shuman, owner of Starry Eyes, the Sherman Oaks company that procures eye wear for films. The price is high. But, hey, the mirrored lenses are held fast by gold-plated, high-tech frames that look like “a railroad track,” Shuman says. All this fast action will set you back $395.

* A BRIEF TALE: Nino Cerruti, who supplied some of the wardrobe for “The Witches of Eastwick” and “War of the Roses,” will add the new Roman Polanski movie, “Bitter Moon”--due next year--to his growing list of credits. But Cerruti is not saying whether he did all of the clothes. For much of the film, actor Peter Coyote tells Listen, he wears nothing more than a leather jockstrap on his extravagantly tattooed body. Coyote showed better fashion sense at the opening of the designer’s newest Paris boutique recently, turning up in a simple gray suit. Later that same night, says Missy de Bellis, a Cerruti spokesperson, the store was robbed of all of its cashmere sweaters and leather jackets. * TOON TOWN SHOPPING: Some of Hollywood’s most elusive stars--Mel Gibson, Kurt Russell and Marlee Matlin--turned out for Daffy Duck, Porky Pig and Bugs Bunny. The occasion was the recent opening of the Warner Bros. Studio Store in the Beverly Center in Los Angeles. Even arch-competitor Michael Eisner of Disney darkened the doorway of the emporium that peddles Daffy Duck denim jackets, $70, Chambray shirts embroidered with a variety of characters, $58, as well as homages to the classics, such as James Dean “Rebel” T-shirts, $22.

* BEAUTY FOR A PRICE: Unanswered question of the day: Will supermodel Yasmeen Ghauri receive $5,000 for her one-night stand in Los Angeles next week? That’s her going rate, according to a recent published report. But lips are sealed at Escada, the European firm that has hired her. Ghauri and 29 other international models will take to the runway Oct. 23 at the gala celebration for Escada’s new store in the Regent Beverly Wilshire hotel.