Cher in Bob Mackie (1986)
Of all the Oscars attendees who’ve made waves with fashion, Cher comes out on top. But it wasn’t always that way; when the multi-hyphenate performer began to receive acclaim for her acting work in the 1980s, she says the Academy initially didn’t take her seriously, and fashion became her form of rebellion.
“[They] didn’t really like me… they hated the way I dressed, I had young boyfriends, and they just thought I wasn’t serious,” the superstar recalled in a 2019 interview with Vogue. “As you can see, I got my handbook on how to dress like a ‘serious actress’.” Eventually, she was recognised as one; she won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in Moonstruck two years later.