Still in the Limelight
Modeling careers are short, especially for those who work in front of the camera. Until recently even the most gracefully aging models were washed up by 25. Bucking the trend is 46-year-old model/actress Lauren Hutton, whose gap-tooth smile (often corrected with a special cap) first graced magazine covers in the late ‘60’s. The blond beauty is currently seen in ads for Michael Kors’ secondary collection, Kors, and for the Italian line, Verri. She also appears on the covers of J. Crew’s fall catalogue and a recent Harper’s Bazaar.
GOING, GOING, GONE!: Although many consumers may complain of a lack of expendable income, a handful of luxury items is selling quite briskly, thank you. Take the $1,200 Moschino silver-studded black leather belt equipped with a toy gun and holster that sold out two hours after being placed in the window display at Shauna Stein in Los Angeles. Says flabbergasted assistant manager Roberta Ross, “We were just knocked out that anyone would buy something like that right now.” Prada Beverly Hills reports that its shipment of 16 silk-and-nylon evening bags, priced at $260, were gone in two days. And Anne Klein’s new water-resistant Signature Sports Watches by Sutton Time, which sell for $150 each, disappeared in six hours at Bullock’s South Coast Plaza store.
SOLE FOOD: It looked like a modern-day Cinderella scene at the Bistro Garden last week. But it was only young, handsome Italian shoe designer Claudio Merazzi playing Price Charming to the lunching ladies. As he was holding court, his splendid shoes were being paraded around the room on silver trays, and at each of the three by-invitation-only luncheon tables, an elaborate Merazzi evening slipper was displayed on a blue velvet pillow.
THE KINDEST CUT: It seems adults, like 4-year-olds, just can’t resist giving themselves haircuts, and the results are not dissimilar. Pamela Schoonhoven, a stylist and the manager of the Glendale Supercuts, says she sees at least 20 people a week who need remedial haircuts to fix self-inflicted damage. But help for amateur snippers is at last available. Author/stylist Rebecca Fisher’s “Haircuts at Home,” includes step-by-step directions for successful at-home jobs. At $9.95, the book’s price is barely enough for a passable tip on a Jose Eber cut: The minimum price at Eber’s South Coast Plaza salon is $60. (Even at that, you’d have to stiff the shampoo girl.)
SUITABLE OCCASIONS: When stand-up comedian Rick Reynolds debuted his autobiographical piece, “Only the Truth Is Funny,” in San Francisco and New York City earlier this year, he wore a light gray double-breasted ‘40s-style suit that he had purchased for $6 at Sacks Thrift Avenue, a second-hand clothing store near his home in Petaluma. Recently Reynolds took his show to the Canon Theater in Beverly Hills (through Nov. 10). For the occasion Reynolds indulged in a new light gray double-breasted ‘40s-style suit from Bernini in Beverly Hills. The price tag this time: $1,000.
