No person wears a “bare” costume fairly like Cher.
Celebrities together with Rose McGowan, Rihanna and Megan Fox have all made headlines in nearly-nude appears to be like through the years, however the Goddess of Pop’s see-through, feathered Bob Mackie frock from the 1974 Met Gala may simply prime all of them.
In a brand new interview with Town & Country, Mackie mentioned Cher, now 76, insisted on carrying the daring look to the Met, costume code be damned.
“She was by no means intimidated by something that I ever placed on her,” he mentioned. “She was simply superb in that division.”
Actually, Cher liked the surprising outfit a lot, she later wore it on the cover of Time magazine.
Mackie additionally created the equally scandalous black sequined look the celebrity wore to the 1986 Oscars, which included a tiny crop prime, low-slung skirt and towering feathered headpiece.
“By that point, she’d been doing a variety of films, however she was doing very unglamorous films the place she was enjoying simply regular folks,” Mackie mentioned. “She wished to put on one thing enjoyable. She was very snug in her personal pores and skin.”
Mackie created most of the “Consider” singer’s appears to be like beginning within the late ’60s, when the pair met on the set of “The Carol Burnett Present” whereas they had been each of their 20s.
“Cher got here on and he or she mentioned, ‘You’re so younger. Everyone that we work with is so outdated. They’re over 30,’” he advised City & Nation. “I mentioned, ‘Effectively, I’m not over 30 but, however I’m about to be there’ … Earlier than I do know it, I used to be getting calls to do specials that she was going to be on. She requested me.”
He’s nonetheless one of many “Sturdy Sufficient” singer’s largest followers to at the present time.
“She had probably the most lovely determine and pores and skin, and appeared totally different than the common pop star on the time. Many of the ladies that had been widespread had been all blonde, and so they had beehives and flips, and there was Cher together with her lengthy, straight hair,” he recalled.
“I let you know, inside just a few months, each younger woman in America had lengthy, straight hair with it parted within the center. The entire world modified.”
The style maestro wasn’t fairly as adulatory when the dialog turned to modern-day type star (and fellow Cher fan) Kim Kardashian, who went viral by wearing Marilyn Monroe’s “Happy Birthday, Mr. President” dress — which Mackie helped design whereas working with Jean Louis — to the 2022 Met Gala.
“After I heard that she was going to put on it, I assumed, ‘Oh, no one needs to be carrying that costume. It needs to be in a museum,” he advised T&C, echoing his earlier statements concerning the polarizing crimson carpet second.
