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Mandy Denson Rocks Bob Mackie

Posted in Bob Mackie, Carol Burnett, Cher, PEOPLE, tagged Angelina Jolie, Bob Mackie, Bob Mackie's wearable art, jessica james at jose luis salon, Jose Luis Salon, Louis Zamperini, mandy denson at jose luis salon, Mandy Denson in Bob Mackie, Project Runway, Texas, Unbroken, vintage clothing shops in Austin, vintage fashion on January 22, 2015| 4 Comments »

Everyone talks to her hairdresser and I am no different. Jessica James is an awesome hair stylist and a terrific conversationalist. We talk about everything. I don’t know what it is about sitting in a hair salon that makes it so easy to talk about the most personal of things while someone is standing behind […]

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Bob Mackie & Wackie Tackie Dressers

Posted in Bob Mackie, Carol Burnett, Cher, PEOPLE, tagged bob mackie and carol burnett, bob mackie and comedy, bob mackie and current fashion on January 12, 2015| 5 Comments »

Excerpt from interview by Jamie Lee Curtis Taete with American fashion designer, Bob Mackie. “Bob Mackie Has Dressed Almost Everyone,” March 7, 2013. VICE online. The television shows you designed wardrobe for back then were classic big productions like The Carol Burnett Show. It all seemed so cohesive. Were you responsible for designing every costume […]

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Bob Mackie: The Curtain Rod Dress

Posted in Bob Mackie, Carol Burnett, Cher, PEOPLE, tagged Barbie dolls and Bob Mackie, Bob Mackie, bob mackie and the curtain rod dress, carol burnett, cher, curtain rod dress, fashion design, Gone with the wind, Gone with the Wind curtain dress, smithsonian, vintage tv, Vivien Leigh, Went with the Wind on January 11, 2015| 8 Comments »

In 1990, American fashion guru Bob Mackie began to design Barbie dolls for toymaker Mattel. A peek at that collection demonstrates Mackie’s incomparable creative imagination: Sultry. Elegant. Sassy. Outrageously Sexy. Exotic. Classy. While these Bob Mackie costumes are fantastically diverse, they have one trait in common. They are glamorous. They are designed to flatter the woman – and to make her […]

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Bob Mackie: Dressing the Divas

Posted in Bob Mackie, Cher, PEOPLE, tagged beyonce, Bob Mackie, bob mackie designs for the stars, carol burnett, cher, Diana Ross, fashion, Hollywood fashion, old tv shows, pink, sharon stone, the carol burnett show, the sonny and cher show, Tina Turner on November 25, 2014| 2 Comments »

In my last post, I introduced American fashion designer Bob Mackie (b. 1940), designer to the stars. He is famous for dressing entertainers such as Cher, Carol Burnett, Diana Ross, Barbara Eden, Bette Midler, Judy Garland, Liza Minnelli, Tina Turner, Joan Rivers, Whitney Houston, Pink, Sharon Stone, Beyonce, Goldie Hawn, Barbra Streisand, Bernadette Peters, Lucille Ball, Ann-Margret, […]

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Cher: Bob’s Big Barbie

Posted in Bob Mackie, Cher, MUSIC & DANCE, PEOPLE, Sonny & Cher, tagged bob mackie and carol burnett, cher and bob mackie, cher in bob mackie designs, pictures of cher, sonny and cher, the carol burnet show on November 22, 2014| 1 Comment »

Before “The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour” debuted on CBS television in 1972, Cher said, Sonny and I wore clothes, but they were so kind of unisex, you know? Some people don’t even know I was a girl!” Here is a glance back at the American singing duo, Sonny & Cher, in their unisex phase of […]

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Edith Head: The Dress Doctor is In

Posted in ART, PHOTOGRAPHY, FASHION, & DESIGN, Audrey Hepburn, Claudette Colbert, Edith Head, Elizabeth Taylor, Grace Kelly, Paul Newman, PEOPLE, Robert Redford, STAGE & SCREEN, tagged Academy Award winners, Alfred Hitchcock movies, Anne Baxter, Audrey Hepburn, Barbara Stanwyck, biographies of women, biographies of women artists, biographies of women designers, Bob Mackie, Cecil b. DeMille, Chouinard Art School, Claudette Colbert, costume design, Dorothy Lamour, Edith Head, edith head costume design, Elizabeth Taylor, Famous Players-Lasky Studio, Gloria Swanson, Grace Kelly, Hedy Lamarr, Hollywood, Hollywood School for Girls, Howard Greer, Hubert de Givenchy, little black dress, Mae West, Mary Martin, Motion Picture Industry, movie Sabrina, movie The Sting, Paramount Pictures, Paul Newman, Raoul Walsh, Robert Redford, Show business, the golden age of Hollywood, The Golden Bed, The Wanderer, Veronica Lake, wardrobe design on June 11, 2014| 6 Comments »

It was summer vacation of 1924 and Edith Head, 27, wanted a new job. She was tired of making peanuts – $1500 a year – teaching French and art at the Hollywood School for Girls. She did have a husband but he was a heavy drinker. If Edith wanted to improve her quality of life, it was up to her […]

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