Bob Mackie Dies: Fashion Designer To The Stars Who Dressed Cher, Carol Burnett And Many More Was 87

Bob Mackie, the Oscar-nominated and Tony- and Emmy-winning fashion designer who dressed Cher in her most eye-popping costumes, Barbra Streisand in her batwing gown in Funny Lady and sketched the design for Marilyn Monroe’s beaded white dress she wore to sing “Happy Birthday” to JFK, died Monday. He was 87.Continue Reading

Melissa Rivers on Her Glorious Return to the Emmys Carpet, Remembering Her Mom Joan and Why ‘It’s Been Really Hard’ to Watch ‘Hacks’

Melissa Rivers is returning to the red carpet. Fashion expert and author Rivers — who rose to fame reporting outside awards-shows with her late mother, the comedian Joan Rivers — will be joining Variety co-president and co-editor-in-chief Ramin Setoodeh and CNN correspondent Elizabeth Wagmeister at the two brands’ Emmys pre-showContinue Reading

Fashion’s New Instagram Playbook, According to Eva Chen

Photo: Courtesy of Instagram A decade into Instagram’s reign over fashion, keeping pace with the changing platform and the ways people use it has become something of a holy grail for fashion marketers. But lately, the conversation has become about much more than reach or engagement. Virality has lost someContinue Reading