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Zendaya and Cher, two trend luminaries recognized to the world solely by their first title, added one other parallel to their relationship in the course of the 2024 Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame induction ceremony. On the occasion, Zendaya launched Cher — the Cleveland museum’s latest addition — on-stage dressed as her doppelganger.
The “Dune” star wore a shimmering classic 2001 Bob Mackie robe with an open bodice and straps throughout the midriff. The costume bore a placing resemblance to a Bob Mackie design Cher wore in 1972. Zendaya’s darkish hair was styled pin-straight with a middle-part and worn lengthy down her again — one other nod to the music titan.
“Thanks Cher,” Zendaya stated on the ceremony. “Thanks for being an advocate, for being an ally, for portray the best way for therefore many people of every kind to dwell in and converse their fact.”
American costume designer Bob Mackie has lengthy been related to Cher and her glittering music profession. Mackie created numerous high-octane, ab-exposing seems for the artist over six many years — from the sheer embellished jumpsuit worn to the 1974 Met Gala to Cher’s infamous 1986 Oscars frock, full with sky-high feather headdress. Mackie even made Cher a customized, ultra-glamorous Cleopatra Halloween costume in 1988. “Each time (Cher) wore a kind of get-ups, it could be within the paper the following day — everywhere in the nation,” Mackie stated in an interview with Fashionista in 2019.
Zendaya isn’t the one superstar to have taken trend cues from the “Imagine” singer. Kim Kardashian used Cher’s 1974 Met Gala jumpsuit as inspiration for her 2015 Met Gala look. And in 2019 Dua Lipa — who carried out alongside Cher on the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame ceremony over the weekend — additionally wore a reproduction of the identical outfit throughout a efficiency in Paris.
But whereas Cher and Mackie’s creative relationship continues to encourage many A-listers in the present day, it’s unlikely the duo will collaborate once more. When requested if she was planning to put on Mackie throughout her efficiency on the Victoria’s Secret present earlier this month, Cher responded with a powerful no. When an Entertainment Tonight reporter enthused that the famous person nonetheless “may deliver it,” Cher reminded us all that she’s been there, carried out that. “I’ve introduced it, child,” she stated.