“The Super-Whammos: 60 Years of Cher” was originally published in the December 1974 issue of Vogue.

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Cher is not of the moment. Cher would have been Cher at any time in history, especially Hollywood history. Gorgeous confirmation: Cher splendiferously time-traveling the 1920’s-1970’s, on these four pages. For this unprecedented star-trek, great Hollywood designers Bob Mackie and Ray Aghayan designed glorious one-time-only costumes, to interpret each decade; Ara Gallant devised the period-enhancing makeups, hairdos. Says Cher, “I loved doing it. For the first time I really had to act!” Wow, Hollywood!