It's always a scary thing to do isn't it? re-arranging your wardrobe for the seasons. I can imagine for you ladies it's even worse than for some of your male counterparts, but believe me, I struggle. I've had those plastic flat-pack bags out for weeks, sucking the air out of them with the vacuum, squashing all my shorts and summer things into them. In short, my wardrobe's a mess. And, without sounding too presumptuous, I'm guessing some of yours are too, lovely reader.
Never fear though... Anna Dello Russo, Vogue Japan's Editor at Large and QUEEN of the wardrobe (what I would give to take a look round hers!), gives us her top 10 rules to clean out your closet ready for the autumn winter season.
Enjoy, and take note. This woman means fashion-business!!
“FALL has arrived!
FALL as SPRING Is the right time
to change season
into your WARDROBE
and to clean your CLOSET.
I’m going to tell you my TOP 10 rules:
1. Elimina tutta la FUFFA.
perchè fuffa genera fuffa!
I say this in Italian cause the word “FUFFA”
is difficult to translate in English, but I try.
1. Remove all RUBBISH
because rubbish generates rubbish!
2. How to FENG-SHUI teaches you,
you must make a new empty ROOM
for revitalize your seasonal wardrobe.
3. Store only the whole OUTFIT.
In a future day you'll not waste time trying
desperately the missing piece that complete it.
4. Buy only thin, non-slip
HANGERS in asbestos.
Those big, slippery, old, wooden hangers
take up too much space.
5. Organize your closet like an old LIBRARY
each room must be devoted
to a subject, to an ITEM:
coats with coats, dresses with dresses,
pants with pants, skirts with skirts …
so you wouldn’t buy the same thing twice!
6. In front of a dress to KILL or to KEEP,
ask yourself:
future generations ‘ll want to see it?
Your cabinet must follow
the GEOLOGY’s criteria:
the older stones are to be on the bottom,
the younger eras must be layered on top.
In your closet’s SECTION you can
read the HISTORY of fashion.
7. Put the SHOES and BAGS away from clothes,
in the appropriate boxes with Polaroids.
The leather’s smell doesn’t match
with the fabric’s smell.
8. Preserve the stretch STOCKINGS
in their packaging.
There’s nothing worse than
wearing damaged filanca.
9. Don’t SQUEEZE the clothes on each other:
like flowers in the garden need their space!
You must accommodate the clothes
like in amazing SHOP.
So everything ‘ll look more INVITING
and u’ll delete the usual complain
“I have nothing to wear!”
10. Don’t use ANTI-MOTH chemicals,
you don’t want to go out
stinking of naphthalene!”
Anna
All words above are Anna's own from her blog, www.annadellorusso.com