"SULTAN OF SEQUINS" BOB MACKIE - AMERICAN FASHION

EDITED BY TIFFANY LU WRITTEN BY MANASA VISAKAI & PAUL G ROBERTS NARRATED BY PAUL G ROBERTS To see all our amazing fashion films. Subscribe to this channel and sign on at fashionindustrybroadcast.com for the latest news and new breaking films. Bob Mackie, born Robert Gordon Mackie on March 24 1940, is a renowned American costume and fashion designer, mastermind behind lists of charismatic entertainment icons. From his personal humour to outrageous glamorous glittering capabilities, the world has not seen enough of the legendary costume designer. Nicknamed “the sultan of sequins” and “the rajah of rhinestones”, Mackie deems “a woman who wears my clothes is not afraid to be noticed”. A nine-time Emmy winner, three-time Oscar nominee as well as an induction into the Television Academy Hall of Fame, there is nothing Mackie hasn’t accomplished in his five decade career. Born in California, and raised by his maternal grandparents, Mackie completed high school but didn’t complete a degree from neither Pasadena City College nor Chouinard Art Institute. He desire was always to make a footprint in the entertainment industry, even if he didn’t originally want to become a costume designer. “I wanted to be in show business” Mackie says. He had learnt how to sew with a sewing machine gifted to him by his grandmother, and began to create costumes for small, local theatre groups, in hopes of building a portfolio. With his never-ending bursts of creativity, he landed his first job sketching