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She managed to pull off the most outlandish styles, like the red and yellow Dr. Seuss Gonzo top-hat (with a red plaid mini-skirt) and the Rasta-inspired beanie, by letting the hats be the main focus of her stylish attires. This doesn’t mean that the rest of her wardrobe was subdued, quite the contrary. Dionne wears a short red sweater vest in Clueless, so you’ll need a cropped sweater vest. Wear This Sweater Under Your Blazer 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. This Dionne from Clueless costume is so cute and perfect for dressing up as Dionne for Halloween! Perfect for Halloween!
I was acting as a fashion designer by trying to create trends—something very fresh and new that wasn't really reflected on the streets or in the culture yet. That was so cool because that kind of creativity doesn't usually happen often in a film—especially with fashion. It was, also understandably, the chosen sexy style Cher went for when she mistakenly decided it was going to be the night she stopped being a virgin. Clueless made history when it became the first-ever movie to have a female voice-over. Ever since its release, the ‘90s adaption of Jane Austen’s Emma has been a cult-classic beloved by everyone who’s seen it. Not to mention, the valley girl slang is everything. I mean, just writing about it now makes me want to rewatch Clueless stat. 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 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.
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. MM: What I think was interesting too, which was very new in this film, was mixing high and low. At the time it really was not something that was as common as it is now. Everyone now goes to H&M and Gucci and mixes them. It really was not like that on the street then—and I really did that. From a budgetary standpoint and a creative standpoint I got to have some high fashion like Dolce & Gabbana suits and Alaia. Then we would go to thrift stores. Actually a lot of Dionne's looks were a mixture of vintage and designer skirts, her clutches. Adding a lot of French accents to both girls with the headbands, the white cuffs, the white colors, was all vintage. 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. 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?!
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!
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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. Like, you could totally show up to your Halloween costume party in a look inspired by new girl Tai or wear a matching plaid mini skirts and blazers with your bestie in the cutest group costume. Feeling like you want to enter your villain era? There are tons of cute outfits that you can wear to channel the classmate that everyone loves to hate, Amber.
Of course good materials help, but even if we bought something for 99 cents we made sure it fit like a glove—and it looks totally couture. The sense of the film is that everything looks perfect, but it really was a mixture of expensive and very inexpensive vintage stuff. 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. 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 It created a feminine, curated, and put-together look that was innocent and cheeky at the same time. Girls everywhere were tired of grunge and welcomed it the preppy look open arms and just like that, the Clueless attire, all sweetness and sassiness, was an instant hit. 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.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/
It’s a little surprising at first to see Cher Horowitz wearing an argyle skirt (twice!) during the movie, since this print tends to be associated with grandparents or out-of-style clothing, but she certainly makes it look good! And you can do it too! 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: That was Bill Pope's [director of photography] brilliance. He's a person who knows how to shoot a character like that, too. Pope really shot it like a fashion photographer. The sheer number of outfits is partly behind Clueless’s appeal to a fashion-inclined audience. “Maybe I would say 25 [changes] would be an average [in a film],” May says. She points out that in Clueless, Cher had 60 outfit changes, Dionne had 45, Tai had 30 and Amber (Elisa Donovan) “our fashion victim, she had so many changes. Plus I had to dress all the extras.” It was a learning curve for Silverstone, a teenager with little previous acting experience. “She was a hippie girl, an activist already, fighting for the animals, saving the world in her sweats … She was like, ‘More clothes? More fittings?’ Years later we talk about it, we are still friends.” Every film starts with a mood board 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.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). The director of photography, Bill Pope, was a brilliant film-maker,” says May. “The way that he looked with his camera, it was like an eye of a fashion person. He would go up the leg of Cher so you would see them walking. It’s almost like a runway in the sense that you really got to see the details.”
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