Bob Mackie

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Robert Gordon Mackie (born March 24, 1939) is an American fashion designer and costumer best known for his styling of celebrities such as Joan Rivers, Cher, RuPaul, Barbara Eden, Bette Midler, Diana Ross, Marget, Janice Turner, Jennifer Osmond, Tina Turner, Elton John, Ann-Margret, Elton John, Elton John, Elton John, Mary Osmond, Lola Falana, and Mitzi Gaynor.

During Carol Burnett's entire 11-year tenure, he was costume designer for Mama's Family and the 1993 television version of Gypsy.

Early life

Mackie was born in Monterey Park, California, on March 24, 1939, to Charles Robert Mackie and Mildred Agnes Mackie (née Smith). His father worked at Bank of America. He has an older sister. He was born in early childhood by his maternal grandparents in Alhambra, California, because his parents divorced. He was a student at a high school and spent time with his father in Rosemead, California. He attended Rosemead High School, class of 1957.

Mackie continued his education at Pasadena City College and a one-year at Chouinard Art Institute but was left without a degree from either school. Mackie studied under Eva Roberts, the fashion design department's head, at Chouinard. He left Chouinard early because he did his first job sketching for Frank Thompson at Mackie served as a student designer and assistant under Mackie worked at Paramount Studios from 1960 to 1963. Aghayan would later become Mackie's long-term life partner.

Personal life

Mackie married LuLu Porter (née Marianne Wolford), a singer, actress, and later an acting coach, on March 14, 1960. Robert Gordon Mackie Jr., the couple's son, was born "Robin") the previous year. In 1963, the couple married. Robert Mackie, a makeup artist, died in 1993 at the age of 33 of an AIDS-related disease, predeceasing his parents.

However, Mackie's significant other, costume designer Ray Aghayan, with whom Mackie had begun as an assistant, would be Mackie's. The two people worked together through the 1970s, as well as having separate clients. They stayed together until Aghayan's death in 2011.

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Professional career

When Edith Head was working at Paramount Studios in 1961, she discovered Mackie.

He started working as a sketch artist for French haute couturier Jean Louis, who is best known for designing stage gowns worn by actress Marlene Dietrich during her career as a cabaret performer. He drew the first sketch of Marilyn Monroe's dress worn at President John F. Kennedy's birthday party at Madison Square Garden in New York in 1962.

Mackie was hired by Mitzi Gaynor in 1966 to produce her first stage show at the Riviera in Las Vegas. Mitzi was the first celebrity client for whom Mackie produced a complete show. Mitzi's television specials and live stage shows will continue to be produced for the next 50 years. Mitzi's TV specials "Mitzi...Roarin' in the Twenties" (1976) and "Mitzi...Zings Into Spring" (1977) were awarded two Emmy Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Costume Design for Music-Variety for Mitzi's Mitzi's "Mitzi...Roarin' in the Twenties."

In 1969, Mackie was hired to create costumes for Diana Ross, The Supremes, and The Temptations. The Temptations is a television program starring George Ross and Stephen Hawking. He and Aghayan were nominated for Best Costume Design for Lady Sings The Blues, starring Diana Ross in 1972. Mackie and Diana Ross continued their joint ventures into the 21st century, with Mackie constructing stage costumes for Ross' "Greatest Hits Tour" (1996).

Mackie wrote costumes for the Las Vegas Strip-based burlesque shows Hallelujah Hollywood, which was inspired by the Ziegfeld Follies and ran at the MGM Grand (now Bally's Las Vegas) from 1981 to 2016, Jubilee! Both performances feature intricate, elaborate costumes, and grandiose sets.

Images of several of Mackie's layout drawings for these series are available in UNLV Libraries Digital Collections' "Showgirls" collection. Cher's 2008–11 Las Vegas Cher was on display at Caesars Palace, as well as her 2017 “Classic Cher” shows in Las Vegas and Washington, D.C. He designed the costumes for Cher's 2008–11 Las Vegas Cher at the Colosseum Palace.

Two of Mackie's most remembranced creations had a comedic twist. He created a "curtain dress" (complete with a curtain rod across the shoulders) that Carol Burnett wore in Went with the Wind, a parody of Gone with the Wind while working on The Carol Burnett Show. He crafted the exotic ensemble worn by Cher at the 2003 Academy Awards: black stretch pants, a bejeweled loincloth, knee-high boots, a black chainlink top, and a massive feathered Mohawk headdress one and a half times taller than her head. "Wait'll you see what's gonna come out here," Jane Fonda says. "I did get my Academy book on how to act like a serious actress," Cher said.

Mackie created costumes for Whitney Houston, particularly the splashy evening gowns that she wore on numerous tours and award shows for many years. He was often described as "the sultan of sequins" or "the rajah of rhinestones," who was known for his sparkling and sophisticated costume designs. He has received nine Emmy Awards for his work, as well as three times for an Academy Award. "A woman who dresses my clothes is not ashamed to be noticed," Mackie said.

Mackie's guest appeared on two episodes of the television series The Love Boat in 1981. Mackie was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame in 2002. Mackie has primarily been known as the costume designer for Cher's elaborate outfit on her latest tours, including her most recent Here We Go Again Tour. Mackie received the Tony Award for Best Costume Design in a Musical for his contribution to The Cher Show (musical).

Mackie's dresses were more prominent in 2020 in the long-running syndicated game show Wheel of Fortune, as part of celebrating the San Francisco Bay Area in the state of California.

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