Mona May

I know who you're going to say.

The costume designer, Mona May.

And the article explicitly points out her seminal work on Clueless.

I literally gasped when I read that.

I mean, Clueless is arguably one of the most culturally significant fashion films of the late 20th century.

Without a doubt.

Mona May didn't just dress the characters in that movie.

She designed a uniform for an entire generation.

So the fashion was completely integrated into the film from start to finish.

The director hired the costume designer Mona May because she knew she could deliver the high fashion or, you know, the feel of high fashion in this film.

What they also did in this film, which I find really in- interesting, is that the fashion in the film doesn't match the fashion at the time with teenagers.

It was a completely different world that they created, 'cause they're creating these, like, rich Beverly Hills girls.

And they tried a bunch of different, different type of suits.

They tried red, they tried blue, and then she put the yellow on and she became like a ray of sunshine.

The energy of the yellow is so, "I'm the queen." This is what Mona May says.

But also, I always remember distinctly from the film, people talk about it now-