Tori Spelling Wants To Be Madonna  Chatting with the rising
design duo Phillipe and David; a more serious Tori reading.
Picture a stage that looks like a giant clam shell, and fill it
out with presenter Pat Field arriving on a barge dotted with hot
slave boys and Katy Perry entering on a mutant seahorse to sing
two songs, as models and mermaids flap around the runway while
paparazzi of many nations click away.  No, you haven't been
slipped a mickey. It's all very much "for reals" and is
happening at the LIFEball, the May 16 AIDS benefit in Vienna,
which will open with the above-described show, courtesy of
rising New York designers Phillipe and David Blond, a/k/a the
Blonds, i.e., the sort of nouveau Heatherette.  Those two are
ornately interesting works unto themselves. Phillipe Rollano was
born in Puerto Rico, where his father noticed he had a flair for
dressing his Barbies, so he encouraged him to pursue fashion
design. (Is Dad gay? "No," Phillipe told me, "but he was a
hippie.") The style-savvy Puerto Ric