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ts3 7 iDDDDig JV Hud aJgg By A.J. BENZA tos of Buster, her pedigree bulldog, with various folks. Karan must have walked into that office a million times, but one day a light bulb went off. "If Donna is jumping on the idea, it's only cause it's Linda's dog and we're all familiar with him." Hotz said. Don't start barking to have your Yorkie fitted for an evening coat just yet DK9 may be a major fashion advancement, but collars aren't designed in a day, and we won't be seeing any merch until next year.

We'll first get a taste of it on the runways in January, where we're betting Buster gets to walk alongside Cindy, Naomi and Linda. other things: A full line of beautiful studded collars; Winter jackets, coats and rain slickers; All-weather pooch booties perfect for those rainy afternoons at the summer share in Quogue. gets 1,000 ideas a day," Karan's director of PR Larry Hotz said. "This place is like a university of fashion. As far as I know, it's something that's been talked about.

But as for concrete plans, it's far too early." Insiders say the idea was born out of Karan's friendship with the president of her menswear division, Linda Beauchamp who is a big dog lover. Beauchamp's office is adorned with loads of pho Daily News Columnist Fashion queen Donna Karan's empire is going to the dogs. Despite rumors that Karan's menswear line is sagging from poor sales, she and her staff have found the time to consider how to outfit more than just wealthy fashion slaves. The result: DK9, a line of dogswear. You might have a hard time imagining Rover in a quilted burgundy vest, but apparently Karan sees that and so much more.

Fashion sources say the multi-millionaire designer plans to offer, among bmmbI core jD J) QJU GL FARRAH Fawcett, who was once a Charlie's Angel, is planning to display her 48-year-old heavenly body in the Christmas issue of Playboy magazine. Fawcett shot the nude pics in St. Barts ith photographer Davis Factor, who shot her once before for Esquire. if LINDA ff STASI gJ s1 FAWCETT RUNS to do a spread for Playboy, but does that mean she's no longer an Angel? But Playboy won't comment on future issues. Factor's agent at Visages in Los Angeles denied it, and Fawcett's press agent, Annette Wolf, didn't call back.

In factrit appears that Fawcett may even be Playboy's December cover girl or woman if you will. Fawcett is hardly the only woman who's figured that be-ing over 40 doesn't mean you've lost your figure. The actress and former model joins a long list of women who are over 40, but hardly over the hill who've taken it all off for Playboy. Welcome to the new Middle Ages. In fact, for their 40th anniversary issue.

Playboy featured spreads of 15 women over 40. One granny, Victoria Jacobs, even made the cover. The really famous nudies have included Joan Collins at 48, (although she was supposedly in her early 50s), Vicki La Motta at 52, Linda Evans at 43, former First Daughter, Patti Davis at 41, and of course, Nancy Sinatra at 54. The September issue features Drew Barrymore's mom, Jaid Barry-more, who recently wrote a book, "Secrets of World Class Lovers." Not one woman posed in a mumu. So, what's a feminist mom like me to think? First, let me make it perfectly clear that if given the choice between being garroted or posing naked while still attached to my present thighs; I -would take the wire any cJayr iC I do not UiisJighJlv.I've thought bput ve Slairmastered, I've walked, stand around naked in front of total strangers.

Of course, since I am over 40, I forgot what I had called her about when I rang her up. She said, "That's okay. First you forget things, and then you forget that you forgot It works out very well." She said she's never posed nude before, but her friend from Playboy who encouraged her to write the book also suggested that they tie it all together with a spread. "First you do a test shoot," she said of her Playboy layout. "The good news is that if you make it past the test shoot, you get to pose in Playboy.

The bad nes is that if you make it they'd look at the test shots and send me a case of Alpo." She made the cut, and the shoot was set. "Stephen Wayda was the photographer, and after the first roll he took me aside and said very sweetly, 'Jaid, this is not a shoot for Vanity Fair, start thinking sensual. I realized that it wouldn't do me any good to wake up feeling sexy tomorrow, it would be all over by-then. So, I went into the bathroom and fantasized and fantasized and came out and said, 'Okay boys, you She said Drew is thrilled that her mom looks the way at 49, and that she's Hgwttetf i show it off. They I've run miles and squatted until I needed springs put into my knees.

My thighs have a life of their own. I will never learn to live with them. My mother, who always figured I'd be Miss America, ruined my life because I always worried that I'd have to go on TV in a bathing suit and show them. So, I envy these naked women who think cellulite must be some kind of diet cola. These babes are no babes in the woods.

They are successful women who are old enough to know the difference between being exploited and adored. They are in great shape and proud of it-1 I understand that, I can't ijrnagine.it, but IjandejtaosLit, asked. Jaid what it was like to be 49 and "Playboy is today, with modern technology, what Renaissance painters were in their day," she said. "A celebration of the beauty of women." Women with good thighs. It used to be that stars would pose naked before they were rich and famous, so they could eat Then they'd get famous and live in dread that the old nudie shots would show up.

OT Now, actresses don't pose nude until they already are rich and famous. And they starve so they are thin enough for the camera. Either way, you don't eat, so it's not for me. Not that anyone has made the offe other than who, writes me fan -ingr-I-want -to- pese-with-yea naked -sen neeteOi- Ksitf rf" the cover of the Daily News." tesi.sh.ootyQu.getto.JpQse in knees-vere knocking I was afraid that 3 daitghtertwowki -persoftally do the garroting..