I tried to pick these pieces from the future. It wasn't something teenage girls were wearing at the time. I grew up in Europe, so I brought a different sensibility to the film. And we wanted these girls to be high fashion, to be the standouts, the queens of the school, but I couldn't afford all the designers, so I had to mix it up with mall clothes and vintage. This is very du jour now, but it was rare at the time. You didn't mix high with low back then."
elle.com “Clueless Movie Fashion” with designer Mona May. http://www.elle.com/culture/movies-tv/a29333/clueless-favorite-outfits/
Ok so, I’m sorry. I agree Clueless is amazingly timeless in its way of being aspirational and relatable in terms of dialogue and clothing etc. I get that it was about creating this teenage world that maybe wasn’t entirely truthful, but nailed the SPIRIT of what being an early 90′s teen mean. (I would liken it to how stage actor, play their emotions big vs. screen actors that play to the camera.) BUT, that being said, I call bullshit on this quote because this is EXACTLY what the designer for Pretty in Pink, Marilyn Vance did for Andie’s outfits. And that movie was made more than 5 years earlier. Vance mixed vintage and high fashion for Andie’s outfits because of her budget and then dressed all the cool kids in SEARS clothing. I know because she talks about it in the extras on the Pretty in Pink anniversary DVD.
So I think they are both geniuses but Mona should not pretend she invented mixing high and low.
Ok so I’ll go have a coffee and stop being crabby.
