Here’s what you need to make this costume: Gain the same popularity on Halloween as Will does on his first day at Carlton’s school by taking a page out of his book. Will Smith is already a ’90s icon, but you can do better than the typical loud windbreaker that we all know and love. The Fresh Prince on his First Day of School Step away from the classic spice girls outfit and aim for a bit more unique this year. Inspired by an event we can’t wait for, the Much Music Video Dance Party at National on 8 th, we’ve made a list of the best 90s costumes to pull off sort of last minute. If you’ve been bumming around and doing everything that is not planning a costume, join the club! It’s crunch time now though and we’re here to help. If you’ve been planning your costume for the last 11 months, we admire your commitment. If you’ve ever tried to emulate Cher Horowitz’s iconic plaid, or basically coveted any ’90s trend ever, it’s time to meet Mona May.We’ve come to the point in the year where your creativity is being pushed to its limits: Halloween. She’s the costume designer responsible for every look in the cult classic, Clueless, along with countless other films where fashion plays a leading role, like Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion and A Night at the Roxbury. We caught up with May at the Gap on Bloor Street in downtown Toronto (where they just launched their Gap Logo Remix collection that highlights their classic ’90s logo) to chat about outfitting Cher, Dion and Amber, the ’90s comeback, and how she protected an Alaïa dress from pavement. “We wanted to bring something fresh to the screen. I think it was really the first time that somebody mixed high and low.

Sometimes having less money makes you more creative.” On the dress Cher hits the pavement in Now it’s so common. We had some high-end designers, mall clothes and there was a lot of thrifting, but everything had to be altered to look perfect. “They gave a mark where she could stand, and we stood right around the mark and cleaned that pavement.

There weren’t going to be any black tar marks on that dress, for sure. We borrowed the Alaïa dress, and the designer didn’t know we were going to do that. It was amazing, because we had unknown actors in the film, and you could say you were doing a fashion movie but it doesn’t really mean anything.

(Illustration: Courtesy Mona May) On her Clueless research So we were very lucky to get the designer pieces we could.” NIGHT AT THE ROXBURY COSTUME MOVIE “We went to high schools and, I mean, it was hideous. It was baggy T-shirts, baggy jeans, plaid shirts. It was a great jumping point, because we knew we needed to make this revolution.

Night at the roxbury costume