fashion-and-film:

“The clothes in Clueless weren’t really what kids were wearing… the costumes in the film are more hyper-style. At the time it was very grunge-oriented fashion, very Seattle – you know, the Nirvana look with the plaid shirts. We didn’t want to recreate that; we wanted to bring something fresh and new. We wanted to really celebrate the schoolgirl, the femininity of girls, the prettiness of color on the screen.”

– Mona May, costume designer for Clueless