What can't a celebrity get these days?
By Anne-Marie Otey

December 8, 2000
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At the Billboard Music Awards in Las Vegas, a huge backstage room at the MGM Grand overflowed with pricey goodies. Members of Creed tooled along on their Lee Iacocca electric bikes (worth $1500 each), while wearing new Steve Madden slippers. Eyebrow expert Victoria Piatigorsky talked one member of Destiny's Child into an emergency shaping. The singer's stylist protested she would have her brows tamed at her regular Beverly Hills place, but Victoria insisted: "You need them done now." The singer agreed, as did Toni Braxton and the Dixie Chicks. Altogether, organizer Backstage Creations gathered $1 million worth of products for the room. Gwen Stefani grabbed Hipster G g-strings and camisoles, and stars also picked up Palm Pilots, Christian Dior glasses, Prescriptives skincare and Canon Elph digital cameras. With so much merchandise on display, security was tight. Only the stars themselves could take the goods, and each carried a checklist detailing what they'd chosen-A source on the awards-show scene says celebrities are starting to expect over-the-top goodies. "If they arrive and there's nothing for them, they're saying 'Hey, where's my stuff?'"

Fashion moment of the week: Kathy Griffin wore a smashing houndstooth-check pantsuit to host the Billboard Music Awards. Richard Tyler made it, for his men's and women's collections. Tyler made the hat only for men, but Kathy's stylist spotted the chapeau and suggested that Kathy try it on-Tyler's studio is also preparing for next week's Fire & Ice Ball. This year's event will be a designer free-for-all. For the past two balls, one designer has helped sponsor, and thus dressed most of the stars. This year, anything goes. Kristin Davis has ordered a dress from Tyler. Red, silver and white will be popular, we hear.