Last season, sheers ruled the runways—Dior to Dolce, Fendi to Ferr

Last season, sheers ruled the runways—Dior to Dolce, Fendi to Ferr

Last season, sheers ruled the runways—Dior to Dolce, Fendi to Ferr

Last season, sheers ruled the runways—Dior to Dolce, Fendi to Ferr

Last season, sheers ruled the runways—Dior to Dolce, Fendi to Ferr

Last season, sheers ruled the runways—Dior to Dolce, Fendi to Ferr

Amy Winehouse—remember her?—is designing a capsule collection for Fred Perry (pictured). But this isn’t just a “sign the dotted line, cash the check” agreement. “The range clearly has Amy’s handwriting,” says a Perry exec. Shakily, we imagine. [WWD]

Bad news—maybe—for NYC revelers. Restaurateur Cobi Levy turned up at a community board meeting yesterday to seek approval for his new tapas venture…at the former Beatrice Inn. Closing time is looking to be 1 or 2 a.m. So much for the Bring Back Beatrice campaigns. [Page Six]

Speaking of real estate, the Seaside Heights house that put up Jersey Shore’s Bumpit-ed residents (we’ll never believe that poof is 100 percent organic) is now renting for $2,500 a night. Vacation in (Ed Hardy) style! [NYT]

And good news for the guys: Yohji Yamamoto has announced that after a few seasons off the runway, he’ll show his menswear collection in Tokyo this April. [WWD]

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Amy For Perry, Bye-Bye Bea (Again), And More…

Get a behind-the-scenes look at athletes modeling spring suits for the WSJ. magazine. Kate Auletta reports.

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Behind the Scenes as Athletes Model

Despite being surrounded by water, Manhattan doesn’t make for your usual island living. But if an escape is what locals are after, try a jaunt to City Island, the cozy fishing village in the Bronx that happens to give a setting (and a title) to a new indie flick starring Julianna Margulies and Andy Garcia. City Island is a hilarious take on family dysfunction, and Garcia had a double dose of blood-runs-thicker-than-water: The actor’s real-life daughter Dominik Garcia-Lorido plays his daughter on-screen. “She’s been wanting to do this since she was five years old,” Garcia said at the film’s premiere last night. “I read the script and saw a part in it for her, so I told her about it. She wanted to audition for it. But as for the rest of the decisions? I stayed out of it,” the actor added with a laugh.

Garcia-Lorido marveled at the quaint fishing village. “I never heard of it, but I grew up in California,” the fledgling actress explained. “But I have friends in New York who don’t even know about it!” That would exclude native New Yorker Vera Wang, who knows her hometown trivia. “Sure, I’ve been there,” the designer said. “I’ve gone out and had lobster.” She may soon be called upon to lead an expedition. “Well, we better all go and head out there now,” Narciso Rodriguez suggested at the after-party, where he mingled with Emily Mortimer, Parker Posey, Cynthia Rowley, and Sandra Bernhard. “I’m sure there’ll be a mad rush after the movie comes out!”

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City Island Hop

Elie Saab’s post-show party in his sweeping apartment in the 16th was well under way, with a parade of top French fashion editors, Princess al-Thani of Qatar, and a lavish Lebanese buffet, when Dita Von Teese swept in around midnight. France’s newest American expat, who now splits her time between Paris and her home in L.A., was a rare sight this fashion week: She attended the Jean-Charles de Castelbajac show (she’s dating the designer’s son, Louis Marie), but she’s mostly been settling into her new apartment near the Place des Vosges and getting the hang of the language. “When I am out grocery shopping in the neighborhood I can pretty much tell when people are talking about me, but that’s about it,” she said. “It’s a challenge, a different lifestyle, a new experience in a beautiful city.” The burlesque star is readying her Crazy Horse Paris show for a Las Vegas debut in late April. Saab designed some of her favorite costumes, one of which Von Teese wears in a bathtub number called Bain Noir.”It’s a sleek, femme fatale evening suit inspired by Mae West, with black bugle beads, sequins, and jet beading—like a tuxedo but with a skirt cut high on the thigh,” she explained. “I just showed up and it was done. He’s amazing.” Sounds like one to get the neighbors talking.

Photo: Fran

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