Cher’s Closet

All millennials covet Cher’s closet from the seminal film, Clueless. I will provide no context in this year of our something 2026, but it’s essentially a computer program featuring her full wardrobe, capable of mixing and matching pieces and intelligent enough to declare a “mismatch” to help Cher avoid fashion faux pas. Clueless was released in 1995, 30 years ago, a fact millennials receive as an insult. In the last 30 years, technology has made shocking strides from the flip phones and beepers prominent at Alcott High, and yet, the various apps I’ve tested to try to wrangle and better maximize my wardrobe have all fallen short in one way or another from the dream sold in Clueless. A really cool artist’s quarantine project was to draw her entire wardrobe, and then later used Figma to create the best facsimile I’ve seen, you can check out her article here: https://www.studiosophy.com/blog/2022/2/28/i-recreated-chers-closet-from-clueless. She noted a particular appreciation for the inventory aspect of the project, the value of understanding what’s in your closet to prevent you from acquiring 12 spring dresses but lack a decent pair of flats.

My dream would be an app that had my closet (and which I ideally didn’t have to painstakingly photograph each piece for) catalogued and easily sortable, the ability to mix and match pieces to create new looks for special occasions (or even just planning ahead for a busy week), and maybe some community aspect to help me get inspired and emboldened to try something new. A friend and I are going to get to tinkering to see if we can turn this dream into a reality. Last Stop was just a dream this time last year, so you never know! If Cher could enable two middle-aged teachers (the horror that I am Ms. Geist and not Ty bc obvs I have NEVER been close to the glamorous embodiment of Cher Horowitz) to find love, and find it herself with her step-brother…. well, stranger shit has happened.