Vivienne files

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 […]

July 1, 2024 And just like that, the year is half over! We’re past the longest day of the year, if not the hottest… Change is the only thing upon which we can rely, but it still never ceases to surprise! Our first heroine is being very intelligent, careful and disciplined this month… Her painting […]

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 […]

September 27, 2024 Perfect for autumn: She can take some time off this fall – what a luxury! A little photography, perhaps? Her packing will have her blending into the forest! It’s not her usual style, but she couldn’t resist the cardigan… Everything else was simple. Her two orange sweaters aren’t as much alike as […]

November 1, 2024 Sitting up in my desk chair is still a challenge, so I’ve decided to attack these paintings “one at a time.” Well, it’s possible that my endurance will increase – we can always hope! When you’ve reached the point at which you have 44 garments in your wardrobe, you actually should be […]

September 2, 2024 This month feels like a new start for many of us – back to school and all that. In France, they call it “la rentrée” – the re-entry. Everybody’s back from vacation and ready for the return of autumn… So I’m going to look at these wardrobe with a few minutes of […]

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 […]

March 6, 2019 Remember this mostly neutral wardrobe? I’m going to revisit this with different accent colors on Friday, but today this wardrobe still needs to be accessorized! This is the scarf upon which I based this wardrobe: And these were the garments: So, to experiment a little bit, and to change up our normal […]

February 11, 2022 I’ve probably mentioned this before (20 times!), but since we’ve all moved into 1 apartment together, my ONLY real issue is that my closet isn’t conveniently placed, nor organized. And I, of course, really don’t have buckets of time to work on it! My plan is to get rid of things that […]