Let’s have some fun and “Dress to Impress”!!! Join us at the ACME on March 14th for this exclusive opportunity to screen Bob Mackie: Naked Illusion, followed by a post screening Q&A with Director Matthew Miele. Doors open at 5:30pm for a wine reception followed by the film at 6pm.
The film traces Bob Mackie’s remarkable career and evolution as a designer and artist, weaving together original interviews with his clients, collaborators, and the designers, stylists, comedians, and actors he has inspired, alongside Mackie’s own reflections on his most iconic creations — from the Scarlett O’Hara dress on The Carol Burnett Show to Cher’s 1986 Academy Awards feathered headdress and Tina Turner’s electrifying concert costumes. Centering on his decades-long creative partnership with Cher, the documentary celebrates the unforgettable, era-defining designs that transformed fashion iconography and cemented Mackie as one of the most important — and undeniably joyful — voices in clothing design, affirmed by interviews with luminaries including Pink, Tom Ford, Miley Cyrus, RuPaul, and Carol Burnett.
Director Matthew Miele's career began with narrative films before pivoting to documentary filmmaking. His 2013 film "Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf's" put him on the map and was an immediate success, as it told the story of the iconic New York City store Bergdorf Goodman. The film featured interviews with fashion superstars like Giorgio Armani and Vera Wang, and celebrities like Joan Rivers and Candice Bergen. Over the next decade, Miele would make documentaries about NYC's Carlyle Hotel, film director Alan J. Pakula, screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky, social diarist David Patrick Columbia, and, of course, Bob Mackie, the movie we are celebrating here at the ACME!
Rated NR, 1h45m