A Perfect Match for Movie Role
New York fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi is going Hollywood. His press director, Nina Santisi, says he will play a fashion designer in a new movie, “The Concierge,” by director Barry Sonnenfeld. There’ll be a fashion show in the film, probably set in the SoHo loft where Mizrahi presented his fall line just last week. This won’t be the designer’s Hollywood debut. He had a small part in the 1980 film “Fame.” There might be another role coming his way soon. Director Robert Altman is working on a film set in the fashion world. His wife, Kathryn, was at Mizrahi’s show.
* ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER DO: Supermodel Linda Evangelista changed her hairstyle again, bringing the total to a dizzying four make-overs in about a year. She’s gone from short and blond to short and red to longer, brown and curly to her latest look, a ‘30s-inspired shingle, layered and square-edged in back, longer and flat in front. She kept the color. Evangelista unveiled her new do at designer Anna Sui’s New York fashion show last week. So much for the old idea that a woman should find her best look and stay with it.
* MAN TROUBLES: Vogue editor Anna Wintour put the rumors to rest. Her magazine will not feature a man on the cover anytime soon. “We discuss all kinds of crazy things here,” she said, suggesting how the rumor might have started. The mag will run a Men in Vogue section in the June issue, Wintour said. No news there. “We’ve always done that.”
* TRUE COLORS: California designers Carl Jones and T. J. Walker are the names behind Cross Colours, a hot label in teens’ casual wear. Now the design duo, along with educator Fred Williams, is getting even closer to customers. They’ve established the Cross Colours Common Ground Foundation, devoted to enriching the lives of troubled teens. Their first sponsored event, April 23 at the Hollywood Gallaxy Shopping Center, is an 18-hour “Stop the Violence” job-a-thon, soliciting summer jobs for inner-city teens. It will be broadcast on Power 106.
* HOT COUTURE: One night last fall a man stopped in front of the Tyler Trafficante boutique on Beverly Boulevard, pulled out his clippers and cut the security padlock lickety-split. Within minutes he managed to load up $250,000 in merchandise from store owner and designer Richard Tyler’s stock. This month Tyler and his business partner-wife, Lisa Trafficante, were instrumental in sending the fashion thief to prison for 15 years. He was caught in a local nightclub wearing a one-of-a-kind jacket from the stolen stash. And he later led police to the ring responsible for dozens of robberies in the Melrose area.
* FASHIONABLE FURNISHINGS: “The Gap made it acceptable to dress down at realistic prices. We like to think we’re doing the same for the home,” said Patti Cappalli. The women’s sportswear designer recently closed her L.A. business to open Cornucopia, a shop for the home. She joined forces with James Salinas, former manager of the Harari shop, and Johnathon Hoenscheidt, a designer for Jonathan Martin. Their Beverly Boulevard boutique features new and used furnishings, gift items and even a little fashion. The vintage drapery-fabric blazers were a big hit at last week’s opening party. “Everything in the store has a fanciful approach to it,” Cappalli said.
* TICKLED SCENTSLESS: If you have always wanted a fragrant peacock feather, here’s your chance. On April 24 and 25, at Two Rodeo Drive, Christian Dior is offering free peacock feathers doused with Dune, a new women’s scent that debuts in August. Not to be outdone, Tiffany & Co., against a “hillside” of poppies and pepper tress, will distribute free samples of its Tiffany for Men fragrance. In all, eight ritzy tenants expect to give away 15,000 samples as part of a two-day event celebrating “Blooming Inspirations,” a display of floral arrangements at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
