CLOSET PROJECT

Turn a Hermes bag into art

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When I buy a luxury item, I feel required to save the packaging. It seems like such a waste to throw it away, since it is not only pretty but such a nice keepsake. Here is a great creative idea for using shopping bags and boxes to re-purpose the wall space in your closet:   [...]

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7 concepts for Closet Clarity

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With my full service one-to-one-packages which my private clients enjoy there is a pretty deep edit of the closet. I usually recommend removing EVERYTHING from your closet to edit and then only put winning keepers back in the closet. I do find that that task can be daunting and overwhelming to do SOLO. So here [...]

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Style Creatures of Habit-A Shoe Makeover

My new Cole Haan red slingbacks which replaced red zipper thongs with a tiny heel which were already dead

Right before I left for a week in Florida, I had a mini fashion emergency. ME have a crisis in my closet?! But, I’ve got everything under control because I’m a fashion stylist right? Well I’m human too and was suffering from what I see all the time: style holes in my closet. I had [...]

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The shirt off his back…rethinking your clothing donations

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This week I was lucky enough to attend the Face to Face event in New York city hosted by British Airways. I met some pretty amazing global entrepreneurs but today I want to spotlight on one who is especially inspiring in an altruistic way. Zach Frisch whose company Raindrop Partners invests in eco friendly companies [...]

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‘Schlocky’ purge

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The other night I got inspired to perform what I’m calling the ‘schlocky’ purge.  It was a small rampage that resulted in 3 bags going to the Veterans 651-778-8387 that they picked up at my building free of charge+tax deductions slip rendered. It’s a reminent of the game changing experience of Bindu Wiles’s #shedproject and [...]

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9 tips to get your fashion mojo back

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I was in a closet of a client’s last week and as she showed me designer piece after designer piece she knew they were destined for the donate pile. She really had nothing to wear. We’ve all been there… I was struck by this common cord-she had lost her fashion mojo. She had amazing but [...]

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StyleCycle the right way

These days reusing and recylcling are great tools for making your dollars/pounds/euro stretch especially for style. Through my improv class I met the lovely Lorena a native 4th generation New Yorker whose passion is the beadscarf.com. What a brilliant idea. She takes vintage scarves that might normally be tossed and forgotten and transforms them into [...]

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Maximizing a Boat Closet-’A Dream Closet’ Post

Another installment of the DREAM CLOSET PROJECT/LESS is MORE in collaboration with Guido Tenaglia and Hsiang Lin of EZarchitecture So knowing that I would be spending a lot of time on a yacht in the Greek Islands I packed ‘light’ for me. I knew the lack of closet and drawer space. Here’s what I’ve brought [...]

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First Edit in my Closet

Made some progress on my closet after hearing from the DREAM CLOSET PROJECT architects Guido Tenaglia and Hsiang Lin that more space was needed. I got rid of a black skirt that I never wear, 2 pairs of shoes-one were a hybrid water shoe that never got worn, and a pink dress which was worn [...]

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Great minds think LESS IS MORE

Isn’t being a fashion stylist all about having fabulous stuff? I don’t think so. Personally I am yearning for less stuff and more space. I have found so many times when I freed myself of unused items I gained something big later. That slight shift in the universe makes room for better bright bigger things [...]

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