A profile you complete before your closet consultation will guide our session, and we'll begin by discussing it. Understanding your lifestyle, your budget, your wardrobe needs, and your "shopping personality" allows your juliewatsonstyle wardrobe consultant to create a rewarding customized experience.
Now the real fun begins! There's no need to clean your closet, or perform a closet makeover in advance--in fact, please don't. juliewatsonstyle wardrobe consultants aren't the stereotype of personal stylists you see on TV- we're not "closet judgers"! Looking at your closet in its natural state will help identify opportunities to better organize and edit your wardrobe to make your dressing time more efficient and productive.
"Merchandising your line" begins with a category assessment, the initial stage of building any collection. You and your juliewatsonstyle wardrobe consultant will go through your closet one category at a time (all pants, all jackets, all skirts, etc.) and decide what to keep based on both lifestyle relevance and fit. Some things you'll need to try on, some things you won't. In an informed, friendly, and honest way your juliewatsonstyle wardrobe consultant will help you understand which silhouettes flatter your body shape, which don't, and why. This closet purge will be cathartic--items that don't flatter you or support your lifestyle fuel the "closet full of clothes but nothing to wear" syndrome. We're not just cleaning your closet, we're editing it!
The items that make the cut will be organized by category and returned to your closet. The result is a focused, organized, and "easy to shop" collection in your closet. To illustrate the improvement, we'll "shop" your closet's collection together, and you'll see great and unexpected ways to maximize what you already have.
The editing you and your juliewatsonstyle wardrobe consultant do will make it simple to identify what, if anything, is missing from your collection. If your closet edit reveals gaps in your wardrobe, your juliewatsonstyle wardrobe consultant will devise a shopping strategy to address them.
Your juliewatsonstyle wardrobe consultant will identify your shopping needs by applying the "filters" merchants use, such as insuring balanced ratios between key categories. This strategy is about quality of use, not quantity—can the right skirt get three of your underutilized tops back in rotation? Your lifestyle needs will dictate each item placed on your shopping list, and your list will be separated by category to create a clear vision of holes in your wardrobe. With your budget in mind, your wardrobe consultant will distinguish between absolute necessities, and items that could wait for another trip if necessary.
Your juliewatsonstyle wardrobe consultant will propose a game plan that will make shopping time efficient, focused, and successful. Based on our broad knowledge of the retail landscape, you will only shop in stores that satisfy your lifestyle and fit needs, and fall within your shopping budget. You'll discuss your shopping strategy with your juliewatsonstyle consultant before any shopping.
We can shop together, or juliewatsonstyle can shop for you.
•If you’d like to shop as a team, your juliewatsonstyle personal shopper will meet you at your first destination. We'll maximize your investment by concentrating shopping efforts on your pre-determined strategy. juliewatsonstyle will save you time and dressing room trauma by leading the charge in pulling styles and sizes, acting as your personal assistant in all stores. Your juliewatsonstyle personal shopper can go in the fitting room with you or wait outside, whichever you prefer.
•If you'd like juliewatsonstyle to shop for you, your personal shopper will scour the city for the items on your shopping list, purchase them, bring them to our 900 N. Michigan Avenue studio, your house or office for a "try on," and return any pieces that don’t work.
•If you’d like to shop as a team, your juliewatsonstyle personal shopper will meet you at your first destination. We'll maximize your investment by concentrating shopping efforts on your pre-determined strategy. juliewatsonstyle will save you time and dressing room trauma by leading the charge in pulling styles and sizes, acting as your personal assistant in all stores. Your juliewatsonstyle personal shopper can go in the fitting room with you or wait outside, whichever you prefer.
•If you'd like juliewatsonstyle to shop for you, your personal shopper will scour the city for the items on your shopping list, purchase them, bring them to our 900 N. Michigan Avenue studio, your house or office for a "try on," and return any pieces that don’t work.
