After a quarter of a century, costume designer Mona May’s work on director Amy Heckerling’s 1995 classic teen movie, “Clueless,” remains iconic.“Everybody was into grunge fashion when we made this,” she recalls.
“We were having to look to the future and bring it to the table.
We were inventing pretty much everything.”As Clueless celebrates the 25th anniversary of its landing in theaters on July 19, May and Heckerling look back on five key pieces of costuming.Cher and Dionne’s First Day of SchoolMay: As this was the first outfit, we needed to get it right.
She’d be in the Quad, which was outside, there was going to be a lot of green.
We tried blue, we tried red, but they didn’t have the right energy.Heckerling: We originally had something else for Cher to wear, but Mona kept telling me she couldn’t sleep at night.
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