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Unmistakably Mackie: The Fashion and Fantasy of Bob Mackie

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The exhibit at F.I.T. this fall as well as my love of Bob's great model Cher prompted me to get this book. It's perfect for the die hard fashion victim, the star lover or the sheer lover of beautiful fashion craft and fantasy. I would advise everyone who knows a hollywood fashion lover to stuff the stocking with this book. The cover is gorgeous, and the dress looks to be the one Cher wore in the Player!The passages on his favorite women are revealing and colorfully illustrated with photographs and drawings!

I bought Unmistakably Mackie after drooling over the book for nearly a year. It is beautiful, it is entertaining, it is over the top, it is history. It is also a fine education in costume design and fashion illustration.
I have other books that feature Mackie's unrivalled fashion illustrations, but here I can see and almost touch the finished costumes that made Cher and Carol and Ann-Margaret. I can finally analyze how they are made.
Please, don't wait to buy this wonderful book. and it is well worth getting a new, pristine copy of this treasure.

WOW! WOW! WOW! Unmistakably Mackie is a fabulous fashion book! This is by far my favorite book! The photography is stunning. The creative type layouts are imaginative. The sketches are wonderful. Anyone interested in costume &/or fashion design will LOVE this book writen by Frank DeCaro ("Style over Substance" columnist for the NY Times).

As a designer & illustrator just starting out, I find no end of inspiration in this book! The sketches are delightful and the outfits are always immaginative. (Looking at the photos & sketches, I found out I can draw Cher too!) :o)

Before reading this book on Bob Mackie, I had no idea the extent of his influence. I just knew I liked his designs. Now he is undoubtedly my favorite designer. (I want to do what he does!) This man has done everything...from his own ready-to-wear fashion line to Broadway, television (Cher and Carol Burnett), movies, ballet, an opera, Vegas and Barbie! If there's something he hasn't designed for, I'd be surprised.

I heartily recommend this book!

I got this new book as Amazon.com informed me two days ago, I loved to look at every pages of bob Mackie's "never look at pics before" Bob Mackie is my good friend since his first Bob Mackie Barbie; He invisited me to his party for sneak perview of his exhibition at FIT in NYC, I loved every creation he created, I urge you to go/see his exhibition! He is sweet and thoughtful guy I met, but to fashion world, He is a god of creative talents of art and designs!!!!!! Go & order his book! If you like to chat about Bob Mackie Barbie and his work, Like to hear from you!

This survey of the fashion and fantasy of fashion designer Mackie examines his many contributions. Mackie created works for popular television as well as film and stage: Unmistakably Mackie considers his life, fashion designs and revealing outfits. Plenty of color photos of actresses in full outfit abound.

Very nice book with lots of images, sketches, interviews with Bob and his famous clients. However, the Mackie couture collections are pretty much neglected (a small paragraph and few images from 2 collections only while the Mackie couture house lasted for more than 10 years !!). It remains an excellent book on Mackie's work in general.

And that thought never wavered once as I agonizingly slowly fiddled with the corners of each page to the next, completely awed and feeling like I wanted to go to New York and show off my skinky legs as well. This book is unreal.

There's flash everywhere. There's pizazz. There's an army of sequins, a rainbow of sparkles, a lifetime of gorgeous reds, beautiful greens, and dazzling blues that you would have never dreamed would have graced this earth in all of eternity. They all flash, they all sparkle, they all wink out and grab you by the eyeballs and force you to gawk and gawk at them until you feel like all your pupils have dried up and you can't possibly gawk anymore, but you just do.

The book is sort of divided into sections, but the reader (or watcher) won't pay too much attention to that except for the divisions for the Hollywood and Barbie section. You've got funky fonts that pop out at you from this unknown corner you never knew was there; you've got these curvaceous paragraphs shaped like a woman's body; and you've got so many other things that I couldn't possibly explain to you until you've bought the damn book. So buy it already.

My only complaint is that the "Hollywood", "Barbie", and his own fashion line sections are too brief. How can you possibly fit more than forty years of glory, fashion, and Bob Mackie into just over 150 pages?

It ain't nobody, but Mackie. Get it for yourself! You will never, *ever* regret that decision.

Wonderful book! Such gorgeous pictures and I loved the Bob Mackie story too. My only complaint is that it just wasn't long enough.....hoping for a sequel.