01of 07Goldie HawnEverett"I met her when I was doing this little variety special," Mackie tells PEOPLE. “She was one of 12 dancers — all dressed alike—but you couldn’t take your eyes off Goldie. You still can’t! It was one of those magical moments that you go, Yeah, that’s a star.” (He designed this ensemble forPure Goldiein 1971.)02of 07Tina TurnerHarry Langdon/Getty"When we met, she was hiding from [ex-husband] Ike, from hotel to hotel. Then she spread her wings and opened for the Rolling Stones," says Mackie, who adds that Turner (here in Los Angeles in 1977) was always a reliable collaborator. “She loves her costumes. And she loves her heels, her Louboutins. She’d pop a few Tylenols and go out there in her heels. She wanted to look as good as possible. She said she was there for the audience.“03of 07CherCher wearing a Bob Mackie design at the 1986 Academy Awards.Getty"To this day,nobody else can do it like she does,” says Mackie (who created this famous look for Cher’s Oscars appearance in 1986). “I mean, the Kardashians can wear all this wild stuff, but it’s not the same. You’ve got to have that little sense of humor.“04of 07Diana RossStan Honda/Getty"She didn’t know who I was,” Mackie remembers of first working with the Motown legend (here in one of his designs on the red carpet in 2001). “I think in her head she wanted to really do her own clothes. She told me, ‘I always wanted to be a fashion designer.'“05of 07Carol BurnettEverettMackie designed what may be his most famous costume,a takeoff on Scarlett O’Hara’s drapery dress fromGone With the Windfor a Carol Burnett Show sketch, in 1976. He knew he had done his job when “Carol walked in [my studio] and started laughing.“06of 07PinkFilmMagic"I never got along with her terribly well,” Mackie says of the pop star (at theGrammy Awardsin L.A. in 2010). “But I think I made her look really, really good. What she does, up over the stadium, is just terrifying. And then she’d clear her throat so you knew she wasn’t lip-synching!“07of 07Further ReadingThe Art of Bob Mackie, out Nov. 16, is available for pre-order now.
01of 07Goldie HawnEverett"I met her when I was doing this little variety special,” Mackie tells PEOPLE. “She was one of 12 dancers — all dressed alike—but you couldn’t take your eyes off Goldie. You still can’t! It was one of those magical moments that you go, Yeah, that’s a star.” (He designed this ensemble forPure Goldiein 1971.)
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Goldie Hawn
Everett
“I met her when I was doing this little variety special,” Mackie tells PEOPLE. “She was one of 12 dancers — all dressed alike—but you couldn’t take your eyes off Goldie. You still can’t! It was one of those magical moments that you go, Yeah, that’s a star.” (He designed this ensemble forPure Goldiein 1971.)
02of 07Tina TurnerHarry Langdon/Getty"When we met, she was hiding from [ex-husband] Ike, from hotel to hotel. Then she spread her wings and opened for the Rolling Stones,” says Mackie, who adds that Turner (here in Los Angeles in 1977) was always a reliable collaborator. “She loves her costumes. And she loves her heels, her Louboutins. She’d pop a few Tylenols and go out there in her heels. She wanted to look as good as possible. She said she was there for the audience.”
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Tina Turner
Harry Langdon/Getty
“When we met, she was hiding from [ex-husband] Ike, from hotel to hotel. Then she spread her wings and opened for the Rolling Stones,” says Mackie, who adds that Turner (here in Los Angeles in 1977) was always a reliable collaborator. “She loves her costumes. And she loves her heels, her Louboutins. She’d pop a few Tylenols and go out there in her heels. She wanted to look as good as possible. She said she was there for the audience.”
03of 07CherCher wearing a Bob Mackie design at the 1986 Academy Awards.Getty"To this day,nobody else can do it like she does,” says Mackie (who created this famous look for Cher’s Oscars appearance in 1986). “I mean, the Kardashians can wear all this wild stuff, but it’s not the same. You’ve got to have that little sense of humor.”
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Cher
Cher wearing a Bob Mackie design at the 1986 Academy Awards.Getty
“To this day,nobody else can do it like she does,” says Mackie (who created this famous look for Cher’s Oscars appearance in 1986). “I mean, the Kardashians can wear all this wild stuff, but it’s not the same. You’ve got to have that little sense of humor.”
04of 07Diana RossStan Honda/Getty"She didn’t know who I was,” Mackie remembers of first working with the Motown legend (here in one of his designs on the red carpet in 2001). “I think in her head she wanted to really do her own clothes. She told me, ‘I always wanted to be a fashion designer.'”
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Diana Ross
Stan Honda/Getty
“She didn’t know who I was,” Mackie remembers of first working with the Motown legend (here in one of his designs on the red carpet in 2001). “I think in her head she wanted to really do her own clothes. She told me, ‘I always wanted to be a fashion designer.'”
05of 07Carol BurnettEverettMackie designed what may be his most famous costume,a takeoff on Scarlett O’Hara’s drapery dress fromGone With the Windfor a Carol Burnett Show sketch, in 1976. He knew he had done his job when “Carol walked in [my studio] and started laughing.”
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Carol Burnett
Mackie designed what may be his most famous costume,a takeoff on Scarlett O’Hara’s drapery dress fromGone With the Windfor a Carol Burnett Show sketch, in 1976. He knew he had done his job when “Carol walked in [my studio] and started laughing.”
06of 07PinkFilmMagic"I never got along with her terribly well,” Mackie says of the pop star (at theGrammy Awardsin L.A. in 2010). “But I think I made her look really, really good. What she does, up over the stadium, is just terrifying. And then she’d clear her throat so you knew she wasn’t lip-synching!”
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Pink
FilmMagic
“I never got along with her terribly well,” Mackie says of the pop star (at theGrammy Awardsin L.A. in 2010). “But I think I made her look really, really good. What she does, up over the stadium, is just terrifying. And then she’d clear her throat so you knew she wasn’t lip-synching!”
07of 07Further ReadingThe Art of Bob Mackie, out Nov. 16, is available for pre-order now.
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Further Reading
The Art of Bob Mackie, out Nov. 16, is available for pre-order now.
source: people.com
