Bob Mackie believes that Cher always had a keen sense of style, even before she started consciously caring about it.
Speaking to People about his new documentary Bob Mackie: Naked Illusion, which is based on his life and career, the 85-year-old famed designer shared that Cher was a beautiful and simple girl when she first appeared on The Carol Burnett Show in 1967. Met him in the show. Mackie was Burnett’s costume designer.
However, despite Cher being simple, she effortlessly carried her bell bottoms, fur vests and little funky things, McKee recalled that the singer and actress made all her own clothes.
When she married her first husband, Sonny Bono, in 1964 at age 18, he also started dressing her, McKee said.
“She would dress up Sonny, and they would go out and perform their songs. She never really thought about any other type of clothing. She wore what fashionable teenage girls wore, but then, suddenly, she became a married teenage girl.’
When it came to her first style change, Mackie says Cher was ready for it.
According to Mackie, Cher loves to play dress-up. “It’s interesting how some people don’t really care about it one way or the other, but she… give her something fun to wear, and she’s happy. And you see it,” the designer expressed.
In the documentary, the pair look back at Cher’s iconic 1986 Academy Awards dress, explaining how this stunning look was a response to critics who didn’t believe she dressed herself like an acclaimed Oscar-nominated actor. Had done. Cher earned Academy recognition in 1984 for her performance in Silkwood.
According to McKee, Cher attributed her less glamorous look during that period to the dirty and dirty characters she played in her films, which did not allow her to wear clothes.
McKee writes in her documentary that for Cher, dressing up did not mean wearing a pretty dress, but wearing an outfit with revealing details. And thus her iconic 1986 ab-baring Academy Awards dress was born.
Cher won the Best Actress Oscar for Moonstruck two years later.
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