Welcome back to characters. My name is Laura Diaz. It is so good to have you here today. Thank you so much for tuning in the past two weeks. I feel really great about this show so far. I'm really, really excited about the direction. And I'm really excited about today's conversation. Today we're joined by legendary costume designer Mona May.

She's here celebrating her new book, The Fashion of Clueless, a 30-year anniversary look

back on the iconic, iconic film. So we're of course talking about the costumes of Clueless,

how the fashion of Clueless influences our understanding of the characters of the film,

how the film has really stood the test of time, and we're also, of course, talking about some of Mona's other iconic, iconic works in films like The House Bunny and Romi and Michelle. A quick note towards the end of the conversation, we are describing images of some costumes. So it's totally fine if you're only listening on audio, but if you'd like to see the images, I will have them included in the video version of this podcast that's only available on YouTube. That is going to be linked below. All of my socials will be linked below. Like I said, I'm really enjoying the show so far. I hope that you're also really enjoying it. Let me know what you think of the episode. Let me know what you think of the show. You can rate and review wherever you're listening today. make sure that you're following or subscribed wherever you're listening as well. And leave me a comment on Spotify. The last couple of

weeks, every week since the launch of characters, I've been like, oh my God, it's so fun that you can

leave comments on Spotify now. But I really think it's a great way for us to like continue the

conversation about that episode. Regardless, I hope you enjoyed today's conversation with Mona May.

Mona May, welcome to characters.

Thank you.

Excited to be here.

It is such an honor to be sitting with you today, to speak about your work and to speak

about your philosophies on fashion and film and women in film.

And I'm just so excited to have you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

I'm just excited to be here.

Talk about my book and, you know, celebrate Cool Us.

Can you believe it's been 30 years? I know that you've been speaking about it being 30 years,

the anniversary, but can you believe the impact of the film long term? No. I mean, I can't believe it's been 30 years and I can't believe the impact on the film and, you know, just so many generations of fans.

I mean, it's the women that are, you know, in their 50s who saw the movie when they were young.

And I just spoke to a group of art high schoolers yesterday, and they were, you know, from grade 7 to 12, and were a huge fan. So it's like a whole

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