Bob Mackie pictured here at the Soho Grand Hotel in New York. The fashion designer is said to sometimes get the cold shoulder in the New York fashion world. Photo: The New York Times
Designer Bob Mackie strolled through a gallery at the Soho Grand Hotel one recent afternoon while a team installed a show featuring his fashion sketches of divas such as Cher, Madonna and Tina Turner, which became his blueprints for the glitzy dresses that electrified their personas on the stage.
Mackie, slightly tired from his journey from California to New York but still upbeat, considered his sketch of Cher’s black jewelled and black feathered outfit from the 1986 Academy Awards.
