Vivienne files

The Vivienne Files - Capsule wardrobes inspired by art and nature

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 […]

July 7, 2021 The Call Came… and she’s expected to be in the office 2 or 3 days a week, starting in September… She can’t wear her old work clothes – her size has changed in the last while, working at home! And she’s overall not thrilled about the whole “back in the veal feeder […]

August 14, 2024 Our heroine loved Monday’s wardrobe, except she just can’t imagine traveling to her kinds of destinations without denim. Lots of denim… So Echo releases another Echo 100 scarf, in perfect colors for her! (true story, what are the chances?) This is the color palette that she really wants! She loves to travel […]

Ah, we’re all pretty interested in how to shift from warm weather to cool. Even if it’s not yet time to actually WEAR cool-weather clothes, it’s nice to have a plan in which we can do a bit of shopping and look forward. So starting in August, we have this wardrobe: Sleeveless and shorts seem […]

September 13, 2024 In honor of Friday the 13th (not really!), I’m sharing a post that’s been lurking in my brain for a while. It’s pretty backwards, in that I’m going to show you the complete wardrobe first, and then show you all of the options in this that I see… clear as mud, as […]

September 17, 2018 Lots of us are used to having at least 40 or 50 garments available for the current season, so the idea of limiting all of our clothing AND accessories to 33 pieces seems daunting! But 1 thing that I’m pretty sure the creator of Project 333 would agree with – you […]

June 15, 2015 So I was thinking about Six-Packs (the clothing kind, not beer…) and I realized that if you chose your pieces exactly right, you could get 45 different outfits from 9 total garments – six of them packed. This isn’t to say that you are going to want to take off […]

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 […]

September 5, 2012 I used to work in advertising, and thus I have hung around with some of the most eccentric, exotic and extraordinary people imaginable. Flash back to a large conference room in a major European city (this happened at LEAST three times…). The room is full – a couple of hundred advertising […]