However, it was the iconic red Cher outfit by Alaïa that would make it to the top of the list of favorite clothing pieces for me. The sheath dress fit Cher like a glove! Alicia Silverstone got to keep most of the clothes she used as Cher…Wonder if she still has this amazing red number forgotten in a corner of her closet?! It was very important the girls felt authentic. Even though Cher was a snooty rich girl, she still felt real,” May explained to Elle earlier this year. “I think that's part of the success of this film. People wanted to be the girls and wanted to emulate them.” And, 25 years on, this desire to embody the characters from Clueless is still very much in evidence. Slip dresses were a must-have item during the 90s and the Clueless wardrobe had to have its fair share. The core of the trend was that it had to look like underwear, and that is precisely what Cher’s dad thought when he saw her go down the stairs ready to go to a party wearing her skimpy white slip dress! Harper's Bazaar: Are you ever surprised at the staying power of this movie, especially the fashion? Entertainment, Clueless costume designer on Cher’s yellow suit: https://ew.com/article/2015/07/17/clueless-costume-designer-mona-may-chers-yellow-suit/

Alicia Silverstone had 63 costume changes as Cher. Some of the most notable clothing items made it to the dry cleaner’s style closet at the beginning of the film, but there were other not-so-distinct ones that were key to the DNA of her style.Harper’s Bazaar, Clueless’ Costume Designer on Creating a Fashion Phenom https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/film-tv/a11462/conversation-with-clueless-costume-designer/

P.S. – Dressing up as Cher from Clueless and Dionne from Clueless is a great Halloween costume idea for teenage girls too! Perfect Costume Idea for Two Read: We Binge Watched all 10 Seasons of Friends, Here’s Our Favourite Outfits for Each Character Fluffy and Feathery Details Cher’s wardrobe really showcased how she was a very sweet and innocent girl. Dionne (Cher’s best friend) on the other hand, was more sophisticated and worldly. Her outfits mixed prints, textures, and colors in outlandish ways that screamed to the world how secure and self-assured she was. As well as spawning a million Halloween costumes, all one need do is open TikTok to see every other Gen Z-er dressed in plaid skirts, spaghetti strap dresses and sheer tops perhaps unknowingly, given their age, emulating the very look May helped popularise. It helps, of course, that the Clueless aesthetic has been kept alive by a generation of designers and creatives who grew up with its influence. Alexander Wang, for example, famously cites it as his favourite film and regularly references its most famous looks in his collections while Iggy Azalea created a shot-for-shot copy of Clueless for the video to her 2014 hit Fancy.MM: It was amazing. I think about it a lot because it's such a fascinating thing. I think it was just the right moment, culturally. It's always about the right timing—nothing's more important than timing in life in general. The movie came out and the girls were ready. They were done with grunge and they wanted to embrace new things, and we gave them the new things. Every woman I meet from years 13-50 has a connection to it—every woman has been touched by this film in some way and it's so fascinating to me because it's so cross-cultural and now it's cross-generational. I was at a screening two years ago and there were girls 17, 18, 19 years old running around as Cher, as Tai, as Dionne and they weren't even born when the movie came out. It's so beautiful. It touched a nerve. We should be girly, we should embrace our body, our beauty. Whatever shape you are feel sexy, feel beautiful about yourself. MM: I love all my babies. That's so hard. The iconic yellow suit, of course. I love her dresses, I love her little shift dresses, these empire waists, the cap sleeves. I love all of the timelessness—to me it's just forever. Now, then, and 10 years from now, 20 years from now. MM: Pretty much. There was not much in the mall then—it was horrible. It was Contempo Casual and just hideous stuff out of left field. We did shop some of that stuff for Tai because we wanted to show how high fashion Cher was in comparison. Tai wanted to emulate her and they made her over to look like Cher, but she was different—she didn't have the money. So it was more of a lower-end version of Cher.

MM: In terms of Cher she was a really good girl. She was a sweet, innocent girl in a sense—she just wanted a good life. But her fashion is fashion. That's kind of the starting point. Then you have Dionne who's much more sophisticated and worldly in a sense—more sexually active. She's more sassy. Mona May: I have to say I am surprised about the staying power overall, but I'm not surprised about the aesthetic in a sense. I feel like there's something about my point of view that's proven to be very timeless. MM: Medium-sized movies usually take two months. The lead time is first, the break down to determine how many changes, what they're doing, talking to Amy, doing visual boards. Amy draws and sketches. Now we are texting each other, but then we were calling each other. Then, we have some shopping fittings to get to know the body of an actor, which is very important. We always had great ideas like oh my god, 'this would look so cool,' but once you get into the fitting and you put something on the body, boy things change.

MM: They were so collaborative and supportive. Alicia Silverstone was 18 and doing masses of fittings because she had 60 changes and was learning about being a high fashion girl. She's a hippie, this girl. She's an amazing activist for animals and healthy eating and that was already evident then. We had to teach her how you walk in these clothes and how you move. That was fascinating. As soon as you put these clothes on, as soon it's altered to fit you like a glove, it really gives you that kind of confidence—you change. Sometimes the unexpected happens with something you didn't think was going to be right. It's the perfect match. If a girl has great legs, you showcase that. Dionne has the perfect stomach. We never went overboard with the sexuality, but we had touches here and there. She could handle more of that, she could have the leopard, she could have the fuchsia, the color part of each girl was very important. The Clueless wardrobe comprised a unique mixture of proper school uniform items that on a second look were anything but (cropped sweaters and vests, a ton of original red plaids, and innocent-looking see-through shirts). Or you dress up as Cher, Dionne, and Tia from Clueless for a fun college costume idea for groups. Perfect for Groups of 3 The Best Plus Size Dionne Costume Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. It often indicates a user profile.