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Article: BOB MACKIE RETROSPECTIVE: THE FILM-GLAM MAN.
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- WWD
- Article date:
- April 20, 1999
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NEW YORK -- As proof that there is a difference between a costume designer and a fashion designer, Bob Mackie doesn't like the movie "A New Kind of Love."
In the 1963 film, now a camp classic among fashion students and the young Seventh Avenue set, Paul Newman plays a hard news reporter demoted to the fashion beat who chases after Joanne Woodward -- playing a store buyer and knockoff artist -- on a romp through the Paris collections.
"It's a terrible movie they still show all the time on television," Mackie said. "She looks like a drag queen."
While that may be sacrilege to some copy kings, Mackie does have a right to be critical of the ...