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editor-in-chief, Cat Collings, and today, Senior Fashion and Social editor Tara Gonzalez is chatting with costume designer Mona May. Mona has numerous credits since getting her

starred as a costume designer in the 90s, but she's best known as the great mind behind the

fashion and the movie Clueless.

30 years after the film's release, Mona joins us to look back on how she designed more than

a hundred different looks on a tight budget. She recalls how she worked with Clueless writer and

director Amy Heckerling to blend thrifted clothes with high fashion. She breaks down how she

sourced to some of the

standout pieces from the girl's wardrobes, like Cher's iconic red-a-dress and Stacey's

dramatic, larger-than-life hats. Plus, she tells us about her new book, The Fashion of Clueless,

that takes us inside her sketchbook she used when designing the unforgettable looks we see in the

movie and

features exclusive interviews with the clueless cast. It's all coming up on who what,

where.

Well, thanks, Mona for chatting with me. I'm a big fan of your work and just so excited to talk to you and so excited for this book.

So I figured maybe we can just start at the beginning.

And I would love to hear a little bit about how you ended up doing costume design and if that was something that you always wanted to do.

Well, you know, I was one of those kids who drew as a little girl.

I was drawing princesses and many outfits, little mini collections already. Lucky my parents really

supported it. As a kid, I grew up in different countries. I was actually born in India.

And I lived at those three. And then I moved to Poland and then Germany. So, you know, I was

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