Madonna is giving Academy Award-winning costume designer...

Madonna is giving Academy Award-winning costume designer Bill Travilla something to sing about. It seems an outfit she wears in her “Material Girl” video is a replica of a strapless pink satin gown Travilla designed for Marilyn Monroe. (She wore it when she sang “Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend” in the movie “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.”) But Travilla doesn’t get credit for Madonna’s version of the dress.

Star searchers,if you happen to be in the neighborhood you might want to stop by Steve and Richard Gilman’s Tarzana warehouse. From what they tells us, it’s worth a trip. They make a collection of race-car-inspired clothes called Style Auto that seems to be causing a traffic jam. “James Brolin wears our leather jacket and comes in to help us pack boxes with orders; Bruce Springsteen’s band members come to the office; Clint Eastwood asked for our clothes when he made ‘Sudden Impact,’ and Mark Gastineau of the New York Jets wears our jacket,” the Gilman brothers tell us. (Gastineau got his at a specialty shop. The clothes are carried at Rudnicks, Jerry Magnin and other stores.) Now, the Gilmans inform Listen that they’ve introduced a cop-car collection--Beverly Hills Highway Patrol--and added a new name to their client list. Not Eddie Murphy, the “Beverly Hills Cop.” Joan Rivers.

Wigged out by Fashion85’s story on wigs April 12, the folks at Renee of Paris phoned to say we haven’t seen anything yet. “We’ve got the Tina wig,” came the hair-raising news from Audrey Cohen of the company. They can’t come right out and call it the Tina Turner wig because she doesn’t wear it. She just inspired it, Cohen explains. It’s shoulder length and straight as a board, and it’s sold at Cal Esp, a wig shop in Beverly Hills. That brings us to the wigs in our recent story that brought on a wave of calls from wishful wig wearers asking where to find the hair in our photo layout. Here’s the list: Paris Tress wigs are available at Dolly’s Wigs in Reseda and La Vons in Tarzana. Eva Gabor wigs are available at the May Co. And Allen Arthur wigs can be ordered through a catalogue available by writing to Wigs of France, P. O. Box 575, Minneapolis, Minn. 55406.

Yesterday Mick Jagger, today . . . Jake La Motta. Angelo De Biase of Umberto’s hair salon in Beverly Hills, who often caters to the rock-music crowd, was hired to comb out boxing champ Jake La Motta for his marriage to Theresa Williams last weekend in Las Vegas. The bride wore a white, ‘50s-style satin prom dress, and De Biase styled her hair in a simple layered cut. It seems De Biase got the job through his mother, Josephine Arieno. She’s about to marry another boxer--and La Motta’s pal--Carmen Basilio.

Singer-bandleader Phil Harris dressed appropriately for the occasion. He showed up in knickers for the first annual T. Barry Knicker Hall of Fame awards in Palm Desert last weekend. The plus fours had their day in the sun when knicker manufacturer Tim Barry decided to honor four golfers who wore knickers in the ‘20s and ‘30s--Gene Sarazen and the late Bobby Jones, Walter Hagen and Jimmy Demaret--as well as current knicker wearers Bob Hope, Marlene Floyd (the only woman on the list), Payne Stewart, Billy Casper and Harris. Barry, former golf pro at Mission Hills Country Club in Rancho Mirage, is such a big believer in knickers that he even advocates wearing them off the golf course and has designed the first knicker tuxedo, which he and Casper both wore to the awards.

The fashion equivalent of bringing ice to Eskimos, we suppose, is bringing Perry Ellis to Perry Ellis. And that’s just what the VIPs at Bullock’s did when they needed a gift to present to the New York designer during his personal appearance here last week to introduce his new Perry Ellis fragrances for men and women. “We heard Perry only wears his own shirts, and his favorite tie, also his own design, is a navy blue with white polka dots,” Bullock’s Mary Carley says. “So we decided to give him what he wears.” As if to prove the point, Ellis stopped by the menswear department before he left the store and bought himself another Perry Ellis polka-dot tie. “He said he had one with him when he arrived from New York, but he got a spot on it at a dinner party,” Carley explains.

When Mary Pickford’s personal effects were auctioned off four years ago, British designer David Keys was in the audience, quietly bidding on bolts of old chintz once probably earmarked for slipcovers or curtains at Pickfair, her Beverly Hills estate. Well, Keys held on to those bolts, figuring that what goes around comes around. And so it has. With chintz back in vogue, Keys--now settled in his own boutique, Plunket Keys on Sunset Strip--has just dusted off the old, bold prints and transformed them into women’s clothing. The eight prints appear in dresses, suits and walking shorts, priced from just under $100 to $400, all bearing a specially designed label showing Pickford’s image. Last weekend, Liza Minnelli got a preview (the collection will be available next week) and bought a suit and shorts with a matching waistcoat.

Hair Wars:Beverly Hills hair stylist Tovar phoned Listen to say he’s left Jose Eber’s salon and opened his own Beverly Hills shop at 9756 Wilshire Blvd., backed by film producer/entrepreneur Jerry Weintraub. Tovar also said he’s taken 14 of Eber’s staff with him. Listen phoned Eber to ask whether Tovar’s tale is true. But the man who styles Cher, Farrah Fawcett, Victoria Principal and oh-so-many others, said: “Darling, what can I tell you? Our shop is still here, all our top stylists are still here, all our top clients are still here.”

Designer’s Duet:Listen was in the audience at jazz singer Nina Simone’s recent L.A. concert. But it was only later that we learned that Simone’s sensational outfit was designed by Los Angeles’ Susan Freis. The designer says Simone walked into her Santa Monica studio one day, saw the gold lame tunic with long, slim, black crepe skirt and ordered two to go. The twin outfits (one is held in reserve in case something happens to the first) are now on tour with Simone in Europe and Australia, Freis reports.

Lisa Lyons,24-year-old senior at L.A.’s Otis/Parsons School of Design, has been voted the nation’s outstanding student designer of menswear in the prestigious 1985 Cutty Sark Men’s Fashion Awards. This is the first time a West Coast student has ever won the honor, which carries with it a $5,000 award to her school and a $1,000 award to Lyons, who’ll accept the sterling silver trophy and the cash at a black-tie awards gala on June 10 in New York.