Personal Styling Tips & Advice

You've been invited to a garden party this summer, and suddenly your wardrobe feels completely useless. Everything is either too smart, too casual, or that dress you love but have never actually worn anywhere. Sound familiar? Here's the thing: a garden party is one of those occasions that sounds simple but asks a lot. You need to look lovely, stay comfortable on grass for three or four hours, and somehow account for the fact that British weather will do exactly what it wants

The first thing I notice when I walk into a client's wardrobe is the smell of fabric. Cotton mostly, sometimes wool, occasionally the faint chemical sweetness of something that's been in a dry-cleaning bag for two years and never come out. Then I start looking. And what I see is almost never what she sees. She sees a problem. I see a story. The jeans at the front that she pulls on every Monday. The dress with the tag still on, four rails back. The cardigan she wore in her old

Before we go anywhere, I want to say one thing: this is not a finger-wagging post. I am not here to make you feel silly about what's hanging in your wardrobe. The common fashion mistakes women make are not character flaws — they are completely reasonable patterns that come from busy lives, well-meaning advice, dressing rooms with terrible lighting, and a clothing industry that doesn't make any of this easy. I've made every single one of these myself. I see them every week wit

Here's something I say to almost every new client: most people don't actually have a personal style. What they have is a wardrobe full of things they bought on impulse, under pressure, or because something was on sale and it seemed like it might work. That's not a style. That's a collection. And I say that with nothing but kindness, because it is completely not your fault. We live in a world that throws thousands of trends at us every single week. Fast fashion wants you confu