Audrey Hepburn wore his fashions in Breakfast at Tiffany 's. During the 1961 presidential visit to France, Jacqueline Kennedy dazzled an opera crowd at Versailles with her white Hubert de Givenchy. Now, to commemorate the 25th year of his couture house, Manhattan's B. Altman is staging a retrospective show of 70 Givenchy creations. Says the designer: "After I open a collection and see people trying on my clothes and treating them roughly, I suffer. My dresses are like my family."

Why the strange initials on Britt Ekland's jacket? "R.S.G. stands for Rod Stewart Gone," shrugs Britt, 34. The Swedish-born actress and the British rock star once swore "faithfulness to each other in mind, body and soul." Alas, some other pretty face came along and faithfulness fled. Now, on grounds that "he became a superstar with my aid," Britt is suing Rod, 32, for $5.25 million --believed to be half his assets --and another $10 million in punitive damages.

Snapping photos of the folks in the old homestead for a family album is harmless enough, unless your names happen to be Annette and Jeff Carter and the homestead is 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. The President's son and daughter-in-law had big plans for marketing their pictures in a book, and hoped for a foreword by Jimmy. They even had a prospectus put together for publishers and included some sample snaps: Amy on Daddy's knee, Miss Lillian out fishing, Rosalynn on the tennis court, Jimmy in a hospital gown after the birth of a grandchild. Then word got round about how Annette and Jeff were aiming to follow a bit too closely in Brother Billy's enterprising footsteps. Last week the project was quietly dropped. As a member of Rosalynn's staff explained, "They didn't want to do anything that would seem to exploit the White House."

When he isn't steering the government, Australia's Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser, 47, likes to rev up engines and tinker with antique cars. Even now he is busy restoring one of the three venerable Lancias that he keeps on his sheep ranch in Victoria. His latest plan was to drive a 1933 Alfa Romeo in a four-lap vintage-car exhibition at Melbourne's Sandown Park--but at the last moment he changed his mind. Instead, togged out in a powder blue racing suit and goggles last week, he climbed beside three-time World Champion Jack Brabham. As the Alfa touched speeds of 100 m.p.h., the announcer boomed: "Now he's doing a prime-ministerial lean to the left." The usually right-leaning P.M. and his driver came in third. Whipping off his helmet, an exhilarated Fraser declared: "If I wasn't Prime Minister, I would love to devote more time to the sport."

"Newport is divine," cooed Elizabeth Taylor as she and Hubby John Warner joined the glamorous golden hordes thronging the scene of the America's Cup races. Ted Turner's Courageous looked like a winner as she hoisted her sails and breezed off to compete against the Australians. When ashore, Captain Ted kept a low profile, apart from throwing an impromptu party on Bannister's Wharf to read a special letter. "I am proud of you all and all Americans, Yankees and Southerners," wrote Jimmy Carter. "That was nice of him," conceded Turner.

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