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 […]

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 […]

Capsule wardrobes inspired by art and nature

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 […]

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 […]

July 22, 2020 Well THAT went well… Yesterday, our heroine was caught off guard when she realized that she needed to pack and leave for the weekend in 5 minutes! She managed, using this painting as her color inspiration; she felt that the swirling and diffusion in this painting accurately represented the state of her […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

June 9, 2020 Watching lots of people wandering about with backpacks, this last weekend, I was wondering what everybody was carrying! I know, water bottles, spare phone batteries etc. but I wondered if they had any clothes with them… And that got me to thinking about what you want to have handy if you’re going […]