
In the 1995 cult classic film, Clueless, Cher Horowitz, played by Alicia Silverstone, is confronted by her dad, Mel, before a date at the urging of her ex-stepbrother, Josh, who asks him, “You’re not letting her go out like that, are you?
Mel, who sees his daughter wearing a tight, strappy white dress, commands her to “get in here” before asking her bluntly, “What the hell is that?”
“A dress,” Cher says.
“Says who?” her father retorts.
“Calvin Klein,” she replies matter-of-factly.
While not as iconic as the yellow plaid, the Calvin Klein dress is still memorable — and understandably so. The wardrobe is just as much a star in Clueless as Silverstone.
But the white dress wasn’t designed by Calvin Klein. It was the work of a then-emerging designer named Anna Sui.
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