Monah Li is a Viennese-born, Los Angeles-based fashion designer, best known for her feminine, deconstructed clothes. She is credited by numerous fashion writers with popularizing the post-modern Bohemian chic look and with starting the trend of up-cycling and re-purposing vintage dresses, sweaters and slips. Her dresses, cashmere sweaters and skirts have been featured in People Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, and Los Angeles Magazine, and "worn by celebrities such Christina Ricci, Salma Hayek, Nicole Kidman and Ione Skye." Other stars who have worn her clothes include Courtney Love, Cameron Diaz, Stevie Nicks, Salma Hayek, Barbra Streisand, Gina Gershon, Liv Tyler, Goldie Hawn, Jada Pinkett Smith and Madonna. She also designed Alyssa Milano's wedding dress. Monah Li's clothes appeared on Friends and the original Beverly Hills, 90210 where they were referred to by the designer's name; and in the films Practical Magic, Sugar Town and Never Been Kissed. She has designed for bebe stores as both as the head designer in the Los Angeles office, and as a freelance designer. Her own labels include Monah Li, Monah Li Couture and Monahmour. Monah Li recently opened her own eponymous boutique in Elysian Park, an area of Los Angeles between Hollywood and Downtown undergoing gentrification, a follow-up of the successful boutique she opened in the buddingly hip Los Feliz area in 1998. Monah Li's romantic, eclectic silhouettes are designed to be worn by women of all sizes. She increasingly favors "normal" and larger-sized models, as well as real women, over traditionally thin, professional fashion models in her shows. Her use of over-dyed silk, velvet and satin with lace insets, called the "rich Bohemian look" have made her one of the most knocked-off designers in her genre. In December 1999 she received a settlement from Italian designer Patty Shelabarger, who had offered to represent Li's line in Europe,"removed the labels from Li's clothing and sewed in her own." In addition to designing clothes, Monah Li is a published author and has written a screenplay that is in pre-production. Her essay, "The Making of a Designer" appeared in the LA Weekly on April 10, 2003, and she is a frequent contributor to The Huffington Post, writing about fashion, and more recently her recovery from nineteen years of bulimia. She contributed a story to Love Addict: Sex, Romance, and Other Dangerous Drugs; her screenplay, Fashion Slaves, begins production in fall, 2011 with independent film house BlancBiehn