Mugler Madness
A French fashion frenzy is beginning to brew over the Thierry Mugler fashion show for the California Fashion Industry Friends of AIDS Project Los Angeles on April 23. The French designer is scheduled to unveil his fall collection at the fund-raiser, which will also include a silent auction of bustiers donated by 23 designers around the world. All of the tops are stunning--from the less-than-$200 DKNY to the scale-tipping $5,000 Armani. Tickets for the affair, to be held at the Century Plaza Hotel, are $300. Call (213) 962-1600, Ext. 504, for information. If those prices are too rich for your blood, and you still want to be a part of Mugler madness, he will hold court for the Fashion Group on April 27 at La Boheme restaurant in West Hollywood at 5:30 p.m. The prices for this gathering are more modest, $10 to $25. For information, call (818) 990-0250.
* JERRY’S KIDS: When Democrat Jerry Brown vowed not to take contributions of more than $100 in his bid for the presidency, he didn’t say anything about clothing. So, Dave Rochlen, owner of Honolulu-based Jams World and a Brown supporter, sent the former California governor’s Santa Monica campaign staff a dozen boldly printed rayon shirts, priced from $50 to $75 each, along with his $100 check. Rochlen says he made the clothing contribution “to keep (campaign workers’) bodies bright and spirits high.”
* JUST REVENGE: The wicked bestseller, “The First Wives Club,” has a deliciously icy message--revenge is a dish best served cold. Now the publisher, Poseidon Press, is sponsoring a contest for any ex who was ditched for a trophy wife. Women who send in their real-life ex-husband horror stories by April 30 will compete for three prizes: a $15,000 Cartier gift certificate, a day of beauty treatments at a salon, or a leather bomber jacket with the infamous quote: “Hell hath no fury . . .”
* GOODWILL SLUMP: The trickle-down theory is drying up. Since the beginning of this year clothing donations to Goodwill Industries have dropped 33%, spokesman Daniel Mulcahy says. He estimates that 100 people a day aren’t making deposits in the blue-and-white donation trailers scattered across the Los Angeles area. Mulcahy blames the rain and that old culprit, the recession, for the drop in drop-offs. “People are hanging on to what they have and making it last longer.” And if this trend continues, Mulcahy laments, Goodwill’s disabled workers will face a reduced work week.
