NEW YORK — Designer Bob Mackie, famed for swathing Cher and other celebs in envelope-pushing, glittery fashion confections, has died.

He was 87.

Mackie’s team announced the Tony Award-winning artist’s death Monday on social media.

“It is with a heavy heart that we share the news that Mr. Bob Mackie passed away today,” read a statement posted to his social media accounts. “He lived his 87 years to the fullest, fulfilling his dream of being a Fashion and Costume Designer, which is all he ever wanted to do. His genius and extraordinary designs will live on forever, continuing to bring beauty into this world.”

Mackie died at a hospital, his longtime design director, Joe McFate, confirmed to The New York Times. His cause of death was not revealed.

In addition to his costume work, which was celebrated with three Oscars, one Tony and nine Emmys, Mackie was an in-demand designer to the stars for decades, most notably pulling off Cher’s midriff-baring, showgirl-inspired look for the Academy Awards in 1986. He also designed the costumes for Broadway’s “The Cher Show,” for which he won his Tony.

Mackie recently made a cameo appearance as himself in the final season of “Hacks,” when Deborah Vance, portrayed by Jean Smart, calls the designer to track down a look he designed for Carol Burnett’s final episode of the “Carol Burnett Show.”

Besides Cher, Mackie also collaborated with the likes of Carol Burnett, Tina Turner, Barbra Streisand, Diana Ross, Liza Minnelli, Ann-Margret and Bette Midler, among dozens of other stars, according to People.

He was not limited to dressing women, though, or even humans. The designer known as the “Sultan of Sequins,” the “Raj of Rhinestones” and the “Guru of Glitter” plied that sparkly trade to onstage looks for Elton John, the Jackson Five and Robert Goulet, as Variety noted. RuPaul was also on his client roster.

As the in-house costume designer for “The Carol Burnett Show” for its entire 11-year run, he created 60 costumes a week on average for cast, guest stars and performers alike, The New York Times noted. Among his more hilariously received concoctions was the so-called curtain rod dress he made for Burnett’s “Went With the Wind” skit in which she played protagonist “Starlet O’Hara.”

Mackie was born in Monterey Park, California, on March 24, 1939. He dropped out of college to sketch for Paramount designers Edith Head and Jean Louis. The skin-tight gown Marilyn Monroe wore in her famously whispered 1962 birthday tribute to President John F. Kennedy, while designed by Jean Louis, grew out of a Mackie sketch.

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