The Vivienne Files - Capsule wardrobes inspired by art and nature

February 12, 2025
Remember this lovely swimsuit from two weeks ago? I left us hanging, with lots of lovely clothes but NO accessories!
Swimsuit – L.L.Bean

February 10, 2025
This painting to me just cries out to inspire a wardrobe for someone who lives near water, and probably has a pretty long “warm” season and just a short winter. Anybody else feel that?
There’s enough navy here to dress her for cold weather, and plenty of shades of sand, lovely sea blues and sea green for warmer weather. I could be so tempted…...

February 7, 2025
I think of this wardrobe as that of someone who once wore black, white, and red, and has now softened and gentled her colors into grey, white and shades of burgundy…
You know, one could easily make a case that some of the background colors look like navy… I’m not going to do that unless I find that I hit a wall building this wardrobe, but it could be done!...

February 6, 2025
I love this painting…
And I think that this wardrobe is going to be fascinating; we start with the world’s most simple neutrals of black and ivory, and then add FOUR accent colors – one for each season. Yes, the idea of white as an accent color when we’ve already got ivory...