The original Suzy Creamcheese sprung from the wonderfully twisted brain of Frank Zappa in 1966 when a letter supposedly written by her appeared on the back of his debut double album "Freak Out", complaining that "these Mothers are crazy. You can tell by their clothes."
Within a few years, Leslie Fearon had assumed the moniker and opened a boutique in Las Vegas called Suzy Creamcheese that became legendary for selling amazing one-of-a-kind fashions coveted and worn by celebrities, show girls and strippers. Throughout the 1970s, movie stars like Ann Margaret, Shirley MacClaine, and musicians like Dionne Warwick, Cher, and Stevie Nicks, shopped at Suzy Creamcheese. Wives of mobsters loved the clothes too, a fact given a nod in the movie "Casino", when Sharon Stone's character, Ginger, talks about shopping there. Elvis Presley bought stagewear for himself from Suzy Creamcheese as well as outfits for his wife Priscilla Presley and a succession of girlfriends.
Elvis on stage in a leather Suzy Creamcheese suit
Elvis girlfriend Linda Thompson wore a hand crocheted Suzy dress
An Elvis leather fringed Suzy Creamcheese suit was worn onstage and privately.
Suzy Creamcheese label
I am lucky enough to own an original Suzy Creamcheese velvet Edwardian inspired skirt suit, available for purchase here at MagsRags.net.
I remember Susie cream cheese her house had the mural on the house and fence. she had her shop right there in the strip mall on the strip and she dressed everybody and I remember I had a friend it was like 1977 and she was going to a show Merv Griffin show and she went and got this halter top with feathers and his patchwork skirt that was the thing back then.