Mona May talks about Alaïa dress

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00:00We have to talk about the Aliyah dress.

00:02She wrote it into the script because it was such a special piece.

00:06So tell me, first of all, I read that you had to beg the Aliyah team

00:10to let you borrow that for the scene because it was out of your budget.

00:13Completely. Completely.

00:15So tell me about that and also how it ended up in the script with that iconic line,

00:18you don't understand this is an Aliyah.

00:20Well, that's Amy. That's Amy, of course.

00:22Get down on the ground. Face down.

00:24Come on.

00:25Oh, no. You don't understand. This is an Aliyah.

00:29I saw the dress in a store, and I was like, this is perfect.

00:32Because it's a very sexy dress in a way.

00:35But, you know, the way that Aliyah uses fabric, it's very thick.

00:39Yes.

00:40So it's not a bodycon dress.

00:41Right.

00:42It's still fitted, but it feels tailored, which was very kind of classy for her.

00:46And that's why I really fell in love with it.

00:48And it was Christmas. It was red, of course.

00:50It had a beautiful neckline.

00:52Yeah, couldn't afford it.

00:54So we found somebody who speaks French.

00:56Again, analog times, pick up the phone.

00:58Right.

00:59Or fax.

01:00Yeah. Oh, my God, faxing.

01:01Talk to somebody there.

01:03You know, ask them in French, can we please borrow this dress?

01:06And, you know, again, this was no PR machines.

01:08Right.

01:09There was no people sending you clothes like now.

01:11And, you know, also we have ingenue actors.

01:14Nobody knew who we were.

01:15Right. You can't say we know this is going to be an iconic fashion movie.

01:18Exactly.

01:19You know, Alicia is going to be a huge star and Paul Rudd and everybody.

01:22Right.

01:23But they agreed.

01:24They were so kind.

01:25He was such a beautiful man, you know, really supportive artist.

01:28And he sent us the dress.

01:30You know, I didn't even tell him that she had to get on the ground in the dress.

01:33Yeah.

01:34Because I was like...

01:35Minor detail.

01:36Minor detail.

01:37I'm like, Alicia, don't breathe.

01:38Because you're just sitting on the street.

01:39I love you.

01:56Nobody cares about it.

01:58The hair is beautiful.

02:03Yeah.

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