I love Bob Mackie's costumes and his book! YUMMY! He is one of my all-time favorite designers. When I was in Vegas, I didn't know that Mackie designed the showgirl costumes for Jubilee! We were taking a behind-the-scenes tour of the show and they showed us his costumes. OMG!!! When he designed the show, it created a worldwide shortage of rhinestones. His costumes in the early 1980s cost $5-15,000 to make.
Thank goodness that we were photographing that day. You cannot photograph in the Mackie Room. But we photographed all the other costumes. Here they are! http://www.costumegallery.com/Vegas/Jubilee/ My son & his bride will be in Vegas June 12 for their honeymoon. She just awarded a full ride scholarship for costume design grad school. Guess what I am giving them for a present? This tour! I wish the Liberace Museum wasn't closed down. She would love it as much as I did. I showed some people in my Costume-Con workshop my Liberace costume photos...their jaws dropped. BTW, at one point Liberace created a worldwide shortage of Austrian crystals for his costume, grand piano, and Roll Royce that were completely covered with them. I would love to photograph the Vegas costumes of Reve. Penny Ladnier, owner The Costume Gallery Websites www.costumegallery.com 15 websites of fashion, costume, and textile history FaceBook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Costume-Gallery-Websites/107498415961579 _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
