Prince skipped the red carpet at last night’s 75th birthday party for Harlem’s Apollo Theater, but he opted for an eye-popping gold suit onstage.

The singer joined stars including Mariah Carey, Quincy Jones and Smokey Robinson to honour the legendary New York  venue and induct soul legend Patti LaBelle into its Legends Hall of Fame.

It’s great to see Law & Order: SVU Emmy-winner Mariska Hargitay back to health after battling a collapsed lung on and off for months; Hargitay — shown above at Wednesday night’s Gracie Awards in Manhattan — recently confessed that years of doing her own stunts on the crime drama were at least in part to blame for her health problems this year.

From the neck down, yeesh.  Black-and-white is really hot right now, but as hard as it is to make a woman with Hargitay’s nice figure look dumpy, that’s exactly what those ruffles do.  We’re going to have to book her on misdemeanor unflattering.

Now she’s conquered the music, movie and TV worlds, Miley Cyrus wants to get into our closets too.

The Hannah Montana star is teaming up with designer Max Azria to create a range of affordable fashion for US retail giant Walmart.

Her designs will include tops, pants, graphic t-shirts, shoes and accessories — and nothing will cost more than $20.

Miley Tweeted the announcement on Wednesday, telling followers, “I love creating looks that are all about personal expression and individuality. Collaborating with Max Azria has been an amazing experience, and I’m really excited about launching this line with Walmart. There’s even more to come!”

Her clothes will hit Walmart’s rails in August.

Let’s hope her creations are more coordinated than this disaster from a few years back…

Luke Perry, formerly Dylan McKay on Beverly Hills 90210 and recently seen (or…not) in no-budget schlock like Silent Venom, appears not to have gotten the memo that the ’90s are over.  He appeared on the green carpet for the Global Green USA 13th Annual Millennium Awards Saturday night in Santa Monica wearing a too-large sportcoat, pale jeans, and…a Taz tie?  And the guy thinks he’s too good to reprise the role of Dylan for the 90210 reboot?

We understand that Dita Von Teese’s whole brand is the Bettie Page, Joan Crawford, ’40s-noir pin-up-girl thing.  But that has its limits, and we have to draw the line at Von Teese’s hairpiece, which looks like a bagel mated with Rosalind Russell, and the huge shoulderpads that don’t say “war years” so much as “Battlestar Galactica.”

But what do we know; Von Teese is apparently getting cozy with a much younger man, so the look she was sporting at Saturday night’s Genlux magazine fashion show must work for him.