Going for <i> Real</i> Gold

Now that the summer Olympics are upon us, ever wonder what became of Nadia Comaneci, the Romanian gymnast who captured the gold five times at the 1976 Montreal Games? These days she’s prancing around in her underwear in a series of magazine advertisements for Jockey for Her. Comaneci, who defected to Canada in 1989, confessed recently that she has “always had a desire to be a model.” The ads will appear in the August issues of Sports Illustrated, People and Cosmopolitan, as well as on billboards all over Los Angeles in September.

* STREET SMARTS: Is Brighton Way stealing some of Rodeo Drive’s limelight? Cartier’s second Beverly Hills store bowed this week on said street. Emporio Armani is set to open on Brighton Way in February, 1993. Rodeo Drive won’t go down without a fight, though. Yves Saint Laurent will move into Pierre Deux’s now shuttered shop on the famed shopping street in March.

* BIG BRITCHES: Special fashion effects were used in “Honey, I Blew Up the Kid.” When film tot Adam grows to alarming size, so do his clothes. The Disney Studios Special and Visual Effects team made a giant pair of Dynokids Fun Club corduroy overalls, and a striped shirt that weighed 800 pounds. The oversized clothes will be on display this summer at the Disney/MGM Studios Theme Park in Florida, but child-sized versions of the $34 outfit can be ordered through IMG, at (800) 950-9045.

* HE PULLS NO STRINGS: Apparently fame and mega-millions still can’t buy Ralph Lauren a decent suit wholesale. Lauren says the only reason he went into business 25 years ago was because he couldn’t find clothes that he liked. “I still can’t,” he confides. “I’ve been trying to get a suit made for myself through my company and they can’t get to it because they have no time.”