Bob Mackie
Bob Mackie
Robert Gordon "Bob" Mackie is an American fashion designer, best known for his dressing of entertainment icons such as Joan Rivers, Cher, RuPaul, Barbara Eden, Bette Midler, Diana Ross, Judy Garland, Liza Minnelli, Tina Turner, Carol Burnett and Mitzi Gaynor. He was the costume designer for Carol Burnett on The Carol Burnett Show during its entire 11-year run and designed the costumes for its spinoff, Mama's Family, and for the 1993 television adaptation of Gypsy...
ProfessionFashion Designer
Date of Birth24 March 1940
CityBrooklyn, CA
It was a quick change that's all in one unit. It went over an evening gown, so it had a big zipper up the back ... (and) Velcro over it because she had to get out of it in a hurry.
Broadway has been truly hurting since September 11, and this was my way of doing something.
Every second after arrest is critical and if we fail to use the defibrilator within two minutes of that the patient's chance of surviving is just 40 per cent.
We have a lot of important brocades and bouclŽs and hand-painted chiffons. ...Things that are just a little more glamourous, a little more movie star probably than your average line.
Shoes are high; they are pretty high. We have some sort of t-straps that are a little bit lower, but the higher heel seems to look better with longer lengths.
She has sensational armpits with no extra wrinkles or puffiness.
We live in a jeans and T-shirt world but we all want to live in a palace, ... We're not trying to attract the masses here. We're looking for a special person who's looking for something special.
I think fashion is that we go two steps forward and go 15 back each time because you always have to look back and see what's being done. But I don't want to look back to the '70s. I'm really tired of that, and I've lived through that already.