How Cher and Dionne Would Dress in 2021, In accordance to the Costume Designer of ‘Clueless’
Handful of pop-tradition gemstones have had as much of an impression on style as Clueless, the ’90s rom-com that celebrates an anniversary this 7 days amid a up coming-gen revival. Mona Might, the film’s costume designer, is one particular of the most prolific talents in the marketplace, deserving of credit score for our fashionable worlds. May’s styling for pre-Y2K cult hits like Romy and Michele’s Large Faculty Reunion and Never ever Been Kissed has formed 2021’s manner (Liquid minidresses! Twinsets!), although Clueless’s Cher (Alicia Silverstone) and Dionne (Stacey Dash) remain lifestyle muses many years later. “It’s not just the fashion that mesmerizes people today over the 25 yrs considering that the motion picture has been out,” Could tells me on a online video call from Berlin. “Each seem definitely was connected to who they were. You like these characters—you really like the women.”
In 1994, once Amy Heckerling wrote the movie and tapped May perhaps to design and style it (the two fulfilled like “twins who found each individual other” on a pilot that never aired), they looked ahead. “This is seriously a motion picture about manner in the future,” says May possibly. “At the time, every person was genuinely dressed up or underdressed,” she suggests of remixing this on film. “What I launched was thrift-store outfits with high-trend outfits with apparel from the mall—something that now is these a typical thing to do. You know, we put on the Balenciaga purse with ripped denims and flip-flops.”
She imagined Cher and Dionne as Beverly Hills teens who, like Could, traveled globally and went to Paris exhibits to scout then came house to imagine of one thing new. “It’s exciting, with Silverstone, we essentially experienced to educate her a minimal bit additional how to wear designer clothing mainly because she was just a kid, a hippie animal activist by now,” remembers May possibly. “And then you have Stacey Sprint, who currently understood about vogue, and she drove certain points and needed specific things—how they ought to match, how they must appear on her.” Seeing it now, “that’s component of the charm and also why ladies relate to these figures,” Might shares. “Cher was herself in a person way various from Dionne, who’s far more funky and outrageous.”
As I generate, I’m carrying just one of my most faithful ensembles, a white tee layered with a black tank and bike shorts—not far from what May possibly dreamed up as a substantial school’s monochromatic P.E. costume code. “Everyone had their possess certain style,” May describes. “When you seem at Cher, she has the white T-shirt which is now so synonymous with the black tank—which now all people wears! My P.A. just came to do the job sporting it, and I explained ‘You know, that is what Cher wore in health club,’ and she was like, ‘Oh, I didn’t see Clueless yet!’” May perhaps states with a laugh.