If ever a fashion designer dominated the Hollywood red carpet, it is Bob Mackie The biodoc Bob Mackie: Naked Illusion tracks his remarkable life and career, and his impact on the evolution of the red carpet.
Director Michael Miele had the cooperation of Mackie and Mackie’s design director Joe McFate (one of the producers). That leveraged access to Mackie clients Cher, Carol Burnett, Bernadette Peters, Pink, Mitzi Gaynor and Miley Cyrus, and to fashion icons RuPaul and Tom Ford, who all appear in this biodoc. So do members of Mackie’s very complicated family. Cher alone is worth the ticket price.
I saw Bob Mackie: Naked Illusion at a SLO Film Fest screening with Bob Mackie and Joe McFate in person; Bob Mackie: Naked Illusion won the SLO Film Fest’s Best Documentary Feature.