HOW TO WORK NAUTICAL A narrow striped top is a fashion classic borrowed from the matelots by French designer Jean Paul Gaultier. Try it in red as a change from blue. Anchors are the skull of the season! A sailor pant is a flattering alternative to…

BLOOMY wants to charge people to drive into NYC, then charge them to drive out of NYC, and also charge them to drive through NYC. Great idea. And maybe $1.35 extra if they try getting cross-town. The thing is, the city’s not getting much revenue…

‘I LIKE American TV reality programming - the worse the better. I love seeing people humiliated, made fun of, brought down,” said Hugh Grant. That was just about the time he was throwing baked beans at a paparazzo. Let’s consider our British…

THE rabble-rousing Hells Angels and their tough-as-nails leader, Sonny Barger, were once so feared that cops, and even professional killers, were terrified of them. In his upcoming memoir, “Enter the Past Tense: My Secret Life as a CIA Assassin,”…

THE Beach Boys were the picture of innocence as they sang about having “Fun, Fun, Fun” and driving their “Little Deuce Coupe,” but the teenage band members grew up fast one night as they toured Des Moines, scored some local hookers and ended…

ANOTHER day, another socialite scandal. This time, it involves Jules Kirby - the blond heiress whose semi-bare bod has hit the Web. In photos taken on the French Riviera, the daughter of powerhouse lawyer Roger Kirby is seen lying on the beach…

KANYE West won’t miss a photo-op - especially if it promotes fiancée Alexis Phifer’s new dress line. Image-conscious West spent 30 minutes being photographed with his girl on the red carpet before entering Ne-Yo’s album-release party at Marc Ecko’s…

“AN AWFUL lot of actors who are considered very good actors are not very good ac tors” - Martin Landau in Variety . . . “THIS is what’s sick about living in L.A. My 8-year-old daughter will point to a woman and say, ‘Look! That woman’s had too much…

THAT interior decorator Jeffrey Bilhuber, who grew up hanging out with Halston and Calvin Klein, is about to become a father. Elle Decor reports he has redone his apartment with a warm, kid-friendly theme in anticipation of his first child, coming…

DOMENICO Dolce picking out a leather jacket, an overcoat and a flight jump suit at the Andrew Buckler store on Gansevoort Street . . . JETS quarterback Chad Pennington and former Giants star Carl Banks at Gallagher’s Steak House…