Bob Mackie obituary

American fashion designer and costumier who clothed glamorous showbiz celebrities, especially Cher Most costume designers are novelists, supplying character, back stories, social placement and history, done in cloth.

Bob Mackie was also a genius cartoonist, assembling details into an image, memorable on sight, that could hold anything from a small 1960s television screen to a concert arena. Mackie, who has died aged…