Bob Mackie, Cher and the Ultimate Revenge Dress (Gift Article)

Bob Mackie, Cher, and the Ultimate Revenge Dress

www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/s... Mackie, in a 2008 interview with me, recalled telling Cher: “‘You can’t wear this to the Academy Awards. You’re giving an award — you’re going to upstage whoever you give it to.’” But Cher, he said, insisted: “She said, ‘Oh, they won’t mind, it’ll be OK.’”