Julien’s Auctions is famous for selling Hollywood memorabilia at record-breaking prices, and now, 262 A-list items are going up for sale at the Peninsula Hotel in Beverly Hills, California.

The famed auction house is presenting Bold Luxury: Bob Mackie, Stage Glamour & the Couture Editwhich includes 50 pieces from the costumier.

Mackie, 85, walked the Daily Mail through the designs going up for auction, talking about what it was like designing for pop icons and how it feels now that the next generation of ‘Disney girls’ is embracing his creations.

Taylor Swift is a fan, especially now that she’s in her showgirl era, and she opted for one of his iconic designs on the cover of her album The Life of a Showgirl.

Swift’s mentee Sabrina Carpenter is also a supporter, often busting out vintage items from the designer for red carpet events and after-parties. When she hit the MTV Video Music Awards in 2024, Carpenter, 26, wore vintage Mackie, rocking the same dress Madonna wore to the 1991 Academy Awards.

Now Mackie, also called the ‘Guru of Glitter,’ is seeing a resurgence of interest in his performance-ready designs, with plenty of stylists reaching out about bringing his ensembles back onstage. Still, he’s not handing out his archival looks worn by celebrities including Elton John, Whitney Houston and Ann-Margret, to just anyone.

‘Places start calling us and describe a dress. But we need to see it on you and fit you and make sure you look good on it! We don’t just send out dresses for anybody to put on,’ Mackie declared.

He is excited when he gets phone calls from certain people, including Carpenter’s camp, and described the new generation embracing his looks as ‘completely unexpected.’

‘I think they were just bored with whatever the look was out there,’ Mackie said about the current pop stars desperate for his designs.

‘A lot of those girls are Disney girls. They know choreography, they know how lightning should be. They know how their hair looks best. They’re really smart,’ Mackie praised.

The live sale is taking place on December 3 and includes a particularly naked dress Cher wore on her ABC television special in 1978 as well as a sequined bodysuit Tina Turner performed in.

The fashion designer explained that he made the sequin bodysuit for Turner that she wore right ‘after she left Ike’ in 1977 and ‘started a new career,’ which is now expected to go for $3,000 to $5,000.

‘The Rolling Stones hired her in a heartbeat,’ Mackie spilled about the time period. ‘She became the star of that show, which is crazy. She didn’t expect that.’

‘She had such an iconic look,’ the so-called ‘Sultan of Sequins’ reminisced.

Cher’s sequin costume from 1979 is expected to go from $8,000 to $10,000, and Mackie described it as ‘a big disco moment back in the ’70s.’

‘I love the way this looks and the light. It’s like magic. It’s like water,’ Mackie praised.

Mackie called designing for Cher ‘easy,’ and raved ‘she loved to get dressed up’ and was ‘never intimidated by anything’ and ‘looked good in everything.’

While Mackie’s designs are the star of the show, there are plenty of other massive pop culture moments on display at the auction, including the Dior newspaper dress Sarah Jessica Parker famously wore in Sex and the City, a heavily embellished gown worn by Beyoncé, and a small collection worn by Melanie C, or Sporty Spice, as well as items donned by Britney Spears, Drew Barrymore, and Lady Gaga.

Martin Nolan, a founder and executive director of Julien’s Auctions, explained that when a piece has a photo of a celebrity like Houston or Madonna wearing it, they can estimate the price at a much higher amount.

Now, millennials and Gen Z are investing in vintage pieces more than ever and celebrity-worn items have extra exclusivity.

While perusing the historic items at the Carlyle Hotel, Nolan told the Daily Mail some of the obsession with regular people and stars like Swift embracing vintage is because they are ‘conscious of sustainability’ and they see these items as investment pieces.

While museums are often buyers of some of the items (especially when Princess Diana’s pieces are on auction), Nolan also believes that wealthy young people are moving from ‘investing in cryptocurrency and non tangible’ items and long to have a ‘conversation piece’ instead of ‘a million in crypto.’