Cher

Cher’s partnership with Bob Mackie offers a sustained language of body-conscious lines, decoration and theatrical scale. The clothes can be intricate without obscuring the wearer’s outline, which helps explain their continuing visual clarity. Her reflections on Mackie’s workmanship are a good companion to photographs of the finished looks: construction matters as much as audacity. Explore several decades of their collaboration to see how a recognisable image can accommodate changing fabrics and occasions without requiring an identical outfit.