Marla Maples May Have Found Her Sole Man

Marla Maples’ publicist, Chuck Jones, may have a shot at “America’s Funniest Home Videos.” Seems Maples has been losing shoes at a fast clip--more than 100 pairs in the past few years. She installed a surveillance camera in her bedroom and fingered Jones as the thief Wednesday. When Jones was arrested at his mid-town Manhattan office, police recovered 30 pairs of Maples’ shoes, three unlicensed handguns and copies of pornographic magazines, including one called Spike. Jones was charged with burglary, criminal possession of stolen property and criminal possession of a weapon. “He was a hard-working guy, he just had--what do you call it?--a fetish,” said one officer.

AUGUST BODY: Vanity Fair’s August cover girl for two years running has overexposed herself again. This time actress Demi Moore looks fully clothed but is actually bare. “The only thing real is her shoes,” insists makeup artist Joanne Gair. The trompe l’oeil pin-stripe suit Moore seems to be wearing is modeled on one by L.A. designer Richard Tyler. The outfit was done in water-based makeup and took more than nine hours to create, Gair says, adding that the hardest part was getting the makeup dark enough on Moore’s legs and doing the pattern on the vest. After Annie Leibovitz took the cover photograph at the Hollywood Athletic Club, Moore went home and slept in her faux clothes. When the photo team--Leibovitz, Gair and hairstylist Peter Savic--returned the next morning, all Moore needed was a few touch-ups. Gair painted her jacket closed and the shoot resumed. Tyler and his partner, Michelle Trafficante, don’t seem to be disturbed by Gair’s rendition. Says Trafficante: “The only way you could get one of Richard’s jackets to fit closer is to paint it on.”

SNEAKER STYLE: Keds, the shoe of summers’ past, is launching a line of sportswear called Keds Apparel and Keds Sport Collections. Ads for the sportswear, coming to stores in August, will feature high-profile folks. L.A.’s own Lilly Tartikoff--documentary filmmaker and founder of Revlon/UCLA Women’s Cancer Research Program--posed for a “Kedwear” ad, as did documentary filmmaker Brenda Scheider and actress Helen Slater. In lieu of model money, donations were made to the women’s favorite charities.

COOL CATS: Tortured hairdos are nothing new, even for animals. The latest is a buzz cut for longhair cats called La Coupe de Lion (the lion cut). The neck and upper body are shorn, leaving faces, legs, tails and underbellies intact. It’s supposedly cool for summer. Lise Girard, owner of Ft. Lauderdale’s Java Cat Spa--where the $25 ‘do is promoted--does 25 cuts a week. There’s also a fashion angle, insists Gerard: The shaved necks are a perfect backdrop for such feline accessories as bandannas or pearl necklaces.

WESTWARD ZIP CODE: Beverly Hills isn’t the only fashionable ZIP code anymore. Malibu’s numbers now double as a clothing line--Nine O Two Six Five--owned by Bron Roylance (a former television makeup artist) and Tony Podell. Some of their very special friends--Woody Harrelson, Michael J. Fox and Justine Bateman--model the ZIP-numbered T-shirts, sweat shirts and caps in catalogues used to tempt retailers to buy the line. Verbiage on the items ranges from puns (Pier Pressure) and cafe names to made-in-America motifs. Locals will find the $20 to $60 items at Fred Segal, Theodore, Bullock’s and Nordstrom. Should you see any Ts around town bearing the numbers 81611 (Aspen, Colo.’s ZIP code), you’re allowed a secret smile: These ZIP-Ts are made by Rick Roberts in Danforth, Calif.

LOYAL TO THE LAST: When Sy Devore’s menswear store opened on Vine street in Hollywood in 1944, the first customer to roll through the door was the Velvet Fog, Mel Torme. He was in search of tuxedos for his group, the Meltones. Tonight, Torme begins a two-night stand at the Hollywood Bowl with Peggy Lee. The occasion called for two new Devore tuxedos, ones Torme can add to the more than 200 he has bought from the store over the years.