Cher’s longtime costume designer and creative collaborator, Bob Mackie (‘the Sultan of Sequins’) once said:
“She’s a chameleon, but you never lose her. You put a blonde wig on her and you still see Cher.”
And maybe that’s it…over the years, Cher changed her careers, looks and sometimes her mind- but she never lost herself or her moral compass.
Cher is all about equality and has never been afraid to say so.
Watch Cher on Necessities, from a 1996 interview with Jane Pauley, below.
Pauley: “You said a man is not a necessity, a man is luxury,”
Cher: “Like dessert, yeah. A man is absolutely not a necessity.
Pauley: “Did you mean that to sound…mean and bitter?”
Cher: “Not at all. I adore dessert. I love men! I think men are the coolest, but you don't really need them to live.
My mom said to me 'You know, sweetheart, one day you should settle down and marry a rich man'
I said, 'Mom, I AM a rich man.'"
...this wasn’t about RICH or MAN, it was about EQUALITY.
Thank you Cher, for being an icon with such endless style, humor and beauty.
Please continue to show the world that one can be what-and who ever they want to be, at any given time.
Necessity /nɪˈsɛsɪti/
1. The state or fact of being required.
2. An indispensable thing.
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