Title:
Unmistakably Mackie : the fashion and fantasy of Bob Mackie
Author:
DeCaro, Frank.
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
New York, NY : Universe, [1999]
©1999
Physical Description:
144 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Language:
English
Personal Subject:
ISBN:
9780789303738
Format :
Book
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Summary
Summary
Profiles the work of fashion designer Bob Mackie through photographs and celebrity commentary.
Author Notes
Frank DeCaro is a writer and performer who was born in New York and grew up in New Jersey. He is a graduate of Northwestern University and hosts his own live national talk show The Frank DeCaro Show on Sirius Satellite.
DeCaro's books are A Boy Named Phyllis: A Suburban Memoir, Unmistakably Mackie: The Fashion and Fantasy of Bob Mackie, and The Dead Celebrity Cookbook. His comic essays are included in Out, Loud, & Laughing, Out in All Directions, How to Live a Sitcom Life, Promotion in the Advertising Environment, and The Q Guide to the Golden Girls.
(Bowker Author Biography)
Table of Contents
| A Message from FIT | p. 6 |
| Foreword | p. 7 |
| Introduction: Bob Mackie: Making Fantasies Real | p. 8 |
| Chapter 1 The Allure of Technicolor: Growing Up at the Movies-- A Conversation with Ray Aghayan | p. 18 |
| Chapter 2 Glamour Girls (and Boys)-- A Conversation with Ann-Margret | p. 28 |
| Chapter 3 Making Specials a Specialty-- A Conversation with Mitzi Gaynor | p. 48 |
| Chapter 4 A Fashion Show Every Week-- A Conversation with Cher-- QandA: Bob Mackie on Cher | p. 62 |
| Chapter 5 I Saw it in the Window and I Just Couldn't Resist It-- A Conversation with Carol Burnett-- QandA: Bob Mackie on The Carol Burnett Show | p. 72 |
| Chapter 6 Showgirls: Defining Las Vegas-- A Conversation with RuPaul | p. 94 |
| Chapter 7 Designing For Hollywood-- A Conversation with Bernadette Peters | p. 103 |
| Chapter 8 Going Public: Designing for the Theater, Opera, and Ballet-- A Conversation with Angela Lansbury | p. 113 |
| Chapter 9 Barbie | p. 126 |
| Chapter 10 Bringing Hollywood to Seventh Avenue | p. 134 |