When a great designer dies, what passes with them is not only craft but a particular way of seeing — the belief that what a performer wears can be as expressive as what they say or sing. Bob Mackie, who died at eighty-seven, spent more than four decades translating Cher's instincts into garments that became part of television history. A 2013 interview, now recast by his absence, reminds us that the partnership between performer and designer is one of the quieter, undervalued collaborations in the art of public life.