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August 14, 2014 Yesterday, someone asked if it was possible to change the colors in the Four by Four Capsule Wardrobe. Well, yes, I plan to show a whole BUNCH of these so that we can see some of the color schemes from The Vivienne Files Color Planner in action. (that’s why I asked […]

June 11, 2014 Floral garments are everywhere this summer – any sort of skirt, blouse, tee shirt or dress your heart may desire is out there somewhere… But I receive emails every day asking how a floral garment can be incorporated into The Common Capsule Wardrobe. Let’s look at this problem in some […]

April 15, 2024 So once you’ve studied the Pantone Colors from London Fashion Week, (found here and here), you have to decide if you like the colors, if you would be flattered by wearing any of them, and how they might look with the neutral clothes you normally wear. I can’t answer the first two […]

Westwood’s continued use of tartan connects the now with the then. It approaches fashion through a contemporary lens, as opposed to merely constituting an exercise in rehash. “You can’t copy the past – even when you try to copy, you discover things from today,”

‧₊˚ Vivienne Westwood SS95

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June 28, 2024 OMG, tomorrow is my birthday! I will be 64… although I feel like I’m somewhere at the crossroads of 21 and 90. My brain is young, my knees are past retirement age! What do I want for my birthday? For you to recommend The Vivienne Files to anyone who might enjoy our […]

December 31, 2021 An Expert in Medieval Flower Illustrations… You know, those flowers that appear in the ornamented capital letters at the beginning of a manuscript chapter? Or in the dividers between sections of a breviary, or other sacred document? She knows why that particular flower was chosen, and what it means! It’s a […]

December 18, 2023 Of course you remember this bracelet – it was only last week that I first shared it with you! And this was the small wardrobe that our heroine took with her on her long weekend of serious reading! It turns out that our heroine is headed to campus for a month for […]

June 22, 2022 By this time of year, most of us should be easily able to whittle down our warm-weather wardrobe to a tidy 33 pieces. While this is NOT what Courtney Carver suggests for her Project 333, I’m pretty confident that she wouldn’t be too upset with us starting at this point. So long […]