Travis Kelce to make fortune with AE clothing line

Travis Kelce, the Kansas City Chiefs tight end engaged to Taylor Swift, is set to make a fortune with his fashion line, Tru Kolors, being sold by American Eagle.

“Taylor Swift’s fans’ boyfriends will have to wear Travis’ gear,” Mike Ford, founder and CEO of Skydeo, told me. “He will close the gap on the Gap.”

Skydeo offers audience-targeting services to advertisers serving clients in the retail, auto, tech and mobile gaming industries.

Ford, who took 10 female clients to a Swift show in Miami, said, “They were singing every word. It was like the Super Bowl of concerts.”

Kelce will no doubt benefit.

“He’s a cool dude. It’s hard not to like him,” Ford said.

Kelce’s AE x Tru Kolors collaboration was announced last Wednesday, just one day after he and Swift confirmed their engagement. The collection features more than 90 pieces, including reimagined varsity jackets, rugby polos and vintage-inspired tees.

American Eagle just got a huge amount of publicity, and a nice jump in its stock price, with its controversial ad campaign featuring Sydney Sweeney as a woman with great jeans (and genes).

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New York Fashion Week was once about the clothes — now there’s a show titled “Plastic Surgery as Art” that will feature models remodeled by scalpel.

Dr. Anthony Berlet, who made Newsweek’s list of America’s Best Plastic Surgeons, will have 12 of his patients walk the runway Sept. 13 at the Léman Ballroom on Broad Street.

The doctor’s wife, Kerry Berlet, whose podcast “Once Upon a Surgery” is changing the conversation around cosmetic procedures, will also star in the show by luxury silk loungewear brand Chiffique.

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Kris Jenner, matriarch of the fame-hungry Kardashian clan, is rumored to be looking to raise funds to buy the entire E! Network.

“Keeping Up With the Kardashians” aired on E! for nearly 14 years before she moved her family to Hulu in 2022.

One source said, “She feels that their reality show would be a big enough base for E! After the Bezos wedding, she was wooing Oprah aboard David Geffen’s yacht.”

Jenner figures that her daughters’ love lives will keep the channel busy. No word yet if Oprah has any interest in the new project.

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Speaking of Geffen, don’t worry about the 82-year-old mogul losing his $9 billion fortune to his much younger, estranged husband, Donovan Michaels.

The couple didn’t have a prenuptial agreement, but it won’t matter, said matrimonial expert Marilyn Chinitz of the Blank Rome law firm.

“Geffen has already protected his wealth,” Chinitz told me. “Under California law, the husband is unlikely to get part of his estate. He’ll get one-year worth of support — anywhere from half a million to $1 million.”

Michaels, 32, filed suit accusing the record and film exec of using a “toxic mix of seduction, control, promises of love and lavish displays of wealth to entrap” him in “a cycle of dependency, submission and humiliation.”

Chinitz, who doesn’t represent either party, said, “David may want to shut him up, pay him and be done, but so far he’s fighting it.”

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Bentley Meeker, New York lighting guru, is suffering at the Burning Man festival.

Meeker, on his 16th trip to the Nevada desert, has survived a dust storm and a flood, but he’s staying in an air-conditioned bus so he isn’t hurting too bad.

Meeker is one of 70,000 festivalgoers — some who have waited 22 hours to enter the grounds due to wild weather conditions that forced roads and gates to be closed.

One casualty of the howling wind was the Orgy Dome, where “couples and moresomes” can connect on a field of mattresses.

“The Orgy Dome blew down,” Meeker said. “I wonder if a bunch of Orgy Huts will pop up.”

Meeker has been a featured artist at Burning Man for years, and created the lighting for the Temple of Transition, Temple of Whollyness and Temple of Promise.

This year’s Temple of the Deep will be torched on Sunday in a ceremonial burning to mark the festival’s finale.

If you’re considering attending Burning Man next year, Meeker warned, “You’re going to be challenged in ways that you don’t expect.”

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Pam Grier isn’t sorry she bared her body in the 1974 film “Foxy Brown.”

Interviewed by Allison Kugel on the “Allison Interviews” podcast, Grier said, “The goal of ‘Foxy Brown’ was to establish the acceptance of women standing up for themselves. I was stepping into a radical position. I’m pretty, and I’ma be pretty. I’ma fox it out!”

Grier acknowledged that some may have found the nudity “gratuitous” but said it was, in fact, a “strategy.”

“That’s the only way you can deal in a man’s world, while swimming in this river of manhood and trying to take down the [bad guy],” she said. “Wanna catch a snake? Give him his food source; that’s beauty. The game’s over. That’s how you catch men.”

Grier — whose credits include “Women in Cages,” “Black Mama White Mama,” and “Scream Blacula Scream” — previously dated Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Richard Pryor. But she managed to evade a wealthy playboy from Dubai.

“He was very complimentary and sweet, but I was like, ‘Wow, he’s a good actor! He’s got the moves.’ He said, ‘I’ll give you a Ferrari dealership.’ I said, ‘How do you know I like Ferraris?’”

Check out Pam Grier’s curated channel Soul Flix, available to stream for free on Roku and Plex.

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The Palm Beach homes of Sylvester Stallone, Howard Stern and Jon Bon Jovi are worth tens of millions of dollars. You may not have that kind of cash for a South Florida mansion, but you can smell as if you do. 

Jayne Chase, one of the tony town’s movers and shakers, has released a new line of candles and scent diffusers called Perfectly Palm Beach. 

Chase, an editor at Quest magazine, told me, “The fragrance was inspired by the charm and laid-back decadence of Palm Beach. Each fragrance is designed to capture the feeling of ocean breezes, manicured gardens and sun-drenched ease.”

To order, go to PerfectlyPB.com, LillyPulitzer.com or Amazon.

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Luann de Lesseps was dancing like no one was watching at Lulla in Chelsea.

The Bravolebrity popped into Renwick Hospitality Group’s Italian hotspot at the Motto by Hilton to catch a performance by Prohibition Productions’ Charlie Roman Hot Club jazz band.

De Lesseps, in a group of eight friends, danced the night away. 

“Seeing her get in the groove made everyone’s night,” a spy said.

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Who still has a cassette player? Watergate sleuth Bob Woodward, that’s who.

The veteran Washington Post reporter told an East Hampton audience he still listens to the Nixon tapes, the legendary Oval Office recordings that led to the former president’s downfall.

“I have them all on cassette,” Woodward said when he reunited with investigative journalist Carl Bernstein at Guild Hall for a stage reading of William Goldman’s screenplay “All the President’s Men.”

Moderator Alec Baldwin chimed in, “Do you also listen to the Nuremberg Trials in the shower?”

The benefit to save The Center at West Park, a performing arts center based in a Presbyterian church on 86th and Amsterdam, also featured Gwyneth Paltrow, Julianne Moore, Andy Cohen, Nathan Lane, Ali Wentworth, Victor Garber and Robert Downey Jr., who voiced Woodward in the reading. 

Bernstein was played by comedian Ramy Youssef.

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David Petraeus, who rose to general during his 37 years in the U.S. Army and then became director of the CIA, doesn’t see an end to conflict in the Middle East. 

Speaking at Abe Wellington’s Opal Group summit at the Parrish Art Museum in Southampton, Petraeus said, “There’s no shortage of angry young men with grievances who are willing to carry an AK-47. They’re not trained. They’re no longer combat-effective companies. Battalions. Brigades. But there are still 20,000 fighters.”

According to Petraeus, there’s no quick and easy way to end the hostilities.

“Gaza is the most challenging urban warfare, I’d argue maybe in history,” Petraeus said. “The 350 miles of underground. This isn’t just tunnels, this is underground infrastructure, entire headquarters bases, machine shops, hospitals and so forth.”

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New pilot Henry Destino, the 17-year-old grandson of the former chairman of Cartier, had a close call when the engine died on his Cessna airplane. 

Henry was a student at the SunFlight Private Camp, offered by Embry-Riddle, in Daytona Beach, Fla.

The son of Ralph Destino Jr., known as “the Cartier kid,” was lauded by his instructors for showing steely resolve in landing safely.