A fashionable walk in Milan

Wearing what looked like cake frosting and a steel cummerbund, Gisele Bundchen walked the runway yesterday at Milan's Fashion Week. If the Brazilian beauty's new boyfriend Tom Brady was in the audience, the photographers missed him. Then again, Brady's been keeping a low profile since his ex-girlfriend, actress Bridget Moynahan, revealed she's pregnant and the Pats QB is the papa. Bundchen wasn't originally scheduled to strut her stuff in Milan, but as a favor to her friends Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana, she agreed to don a few garments from D&G's autumn/winter '07/'08 collection. Brady and Bundchen are due back in the Big Apple today.

Star-studded send-off for Altman

Done wrong, memorial services can be depressing. Not Robert Altman's. "Everybody who got up to speak said Bob would have loved it," laughed Lois Smith, Altman's longtime publicist, who lives on Plum Island. "Really, it was great fun." Smith, who co-founded the legendary PMK Public Relations, helped organize the event, which was attended by a slew of celebs, including Kurt Vonnegut, Lily Tomlin, E.L. Doctorow, Garry Trudeau, Julianne Moore, Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins, Harry Belafonte, Kevin Kline, Sidney Lumet, Sally Kellerman, Altman protege Paul Thomas Anderson, and former Globe reporter Mitchell Zuckoff, who's writing about the late director. Held at New York's Majestic Theater, Smith said the service was a fitting tribute, full of reminiscence and ribaldry. "It was an Altman situation," she said, "and we all knew Bob was probably filming it."

Boston represented at Oscars

Mark Wahlberg isn't the only Dorchester native up for an Oscar Sunday night. Set decorator Nancy Haigh, whose work on "Dreamgirls" earned her an Academy Award nod, is also a former Dorchester denizen. And if she wins, it'd be Haigh's second piece of hardware. (The Massachusetts College of Art grad grabbed the Oscar for "Bugsy" in 1991.) We tried to text Haigh yesterday, but she was busy working on "Charlie Wilson's War," director Mike Nichols's flick starring Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts. Haigh's hometown can be seen in at least one of her movies. In 2002, she bought a former Dorchester diner, the Englewood, and had it towed to the Chicago set of "The Road to Perdition." (The diner, which closed in the late '80s, shows up in a scene between the Irish mobster played by Hanks and the assassin played by Jude Law.) Dreamworks later sold the diner and it ended up in Eliot, Maine.

While workers were laying 40,000 square feet of red carpet along Hollywood Boulevard yesterday, former Boston Ballet dancer Mark Held was the picture of calm. For the 14th year, Held's company, Mark's Garden, is creating the floral designs for the Governors Ball, the exclusive affair for Oscar nominees and winners that immediately follows the awards broadcast. "Because we're dealing with fresh flowers, we can't do much until Saturday. Then we'll be busy," Held told us. "It's really about the planning, which we've been doing for a while now. Then you execute the plan." No stranger to celebrity, Held's handled the floral arrangements for the weddings of Avril Lavigne, Pink, Gwen Stefani, and Heidi Klum, among others. . . . Bravo to Jannette Bloom, the Emerson undergrad whose 30-second spot for Dove Cream Oil Body Wash is one of three finalists in the company's make-your-own commercial contest. Bloom wrote, filmed, and stars in the ad. The winner will be announced during Sunday's Oscar broadcast with an intro by Sara Ramirez of "Grey's Anatomy." "It's been great to have my idea get some recognition," said Bloom, who gets a trip to Tinseltown for this weekend's hoopla. . . . Hillary Clinton clone Heidi Dallin is in demand these days. The Gloucester Stage Co. flack who's a Hillary impersonator was brought to New York by "Inside Edition" this week. The tabloid TV show taped Dallin as she transformed herself into Bill Clinton's better half, and then watched as the faux first lady got a few interesting looks in Times Square. "A police officer let us park in a no-parking zone because he saw the very important passenger in the car," giggled Dallin afterward. April Woodard's "Inside Edition" segment could air as early as next week. . . . And this just in: Governor Deval Patrick has named Elyse Cherry chairwoman of the Massachusetts Cultural Council and Barbara Grossman vice chairwoman. Cherry is CEO of Boston Community Capital. Grossman is chairwoman of the Department of Drama and Dance at Tufts University.

Names can be reached at names@globe.com or at 617-929-8253.