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    Practical Princess Perfect Wardrobe: Declutter and re-jig your closet to transform your life
    Practical Princess Perfect Wardrobe: Declutter and re-jig your closet to transform your life
    Practical Princess Perfect Wardrobe: Declutter and re-jig your closet to transform your life
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    Practical Princess Perfect Wardrobe: Declutter and re-jig your closet to transform your life

    By Elika Gibbs

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    In Practical Princess Perfect Wardrobe, organizational whizz and wardrobe expert Elika Gibbs shares the secrets of her unique three-step process, putting the luxury of a complete wardrobe makeover within everyone's reach.Elika starts with a wardrobe assessment that's designed to help you dress for the life you lead, and offers plenty of hand-holding as you clear out your closet. Once you've decided what to keep and what needs to go, the next step is to reorganize, rehang and colour coordinate your wardrobe. Finally, Elika focuses on savvy and successful shopping to fill the gaps. The result? A hard-working, streamlined wardrobe that makes it easy to get dressed and easy to feel confident about yourself. Elika Gibbs is a organizational whizz and wardrobe expert. She is every bit as glamorous as her celebrity clients, yet is also happy to get down on hands and knees to scrub out the bottom of a cupboard. Elika spent seven years running dress hire shop Bodie and Gibbs in Knightsbridge, where she transformed women of all shapes and sizes into a goddess for a night in the fabulous designer dresses and accessories that she hired out.'Elika is a practical genius...' Kate Moss
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRyland Peters & Small
    Release dateFeb 21, 2014
    ISBN9781849753142
    Practical Princess Perfect Wardrobe: Declutter and re-jig your closet to transform your life

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    Practical Princess Perfect Wardrobe - Elika Gibbs

    introduction

    The following pages contain the tried-and-tested Practical Princess formula that I use at work every day. I work with a myriad of clients whose individual needs are many and varied, and so I tailor each job slightly to benefit them. Some clients will only require wardrobe organization, while others need to go through the full process of assessment, organization and shopping.

    I do not claim to be a fashionista in any way, shape or form, but I have had the privilege to work with many fashion icons. My unique formula has worked for each and every one of them, as they have been able to get clarity in their vast wardrobes.

    By following these steps, I hope that you too will achieve ‘closet clarity’ and enjoy getting dressed again.

    the practical princess story

    Practical Princess evolved and grew without me actually even knowing it. It didn’t begin in the conventional way that a lot of companies do. I didn’t have a vision, and certainly didn’t have a business plan, but this is the story of how it all started.

    In my late twenties, I opened up a designer and couture evening dress hire shop in Knightsbridge, London, with my then business partner Arabella Bodie. Our aim was to have a shop where you could hire a beautiful long gown for the night without having to spend thousands of pounds buying a dress you might only wear once. We stocked gorgeous dresses from designers such as Bruce Oldfield, Amanda Wakeley, Jenny Packham and Vera Wang. Ladies could also hire jewellery, shoes, handbags and pashminas, making it a one-stop shop.

    We also sold the original ‘Magic Knickers’. These had not yet hit the market – Arabella and I had sourced them from a European trade fair – and they became a great hit. They were so popular that at times we would sit up all night packing hundreds of pairs of knickers to send out worldwide.

    After running the shop for a number of years, our lives started to change. Arabella got married and – whoops! – I got pregnant. Becoming a single mum and Arabella leaving Bodie & Gibbs had a dramatic effect upon my life. Financially, with a baby to support, I was finding it hard to survive on the salary that I drew. I had to find a way to earn more money.

    Whether by luck, fate or perfect timing, I was asked by a successful and busy executive to help organize and restructure her household. I was hesitant about accepting the offer, as I had no training or qualifications in this field, but I was assured that I could do it and I really needed the extra cash. Although I was still running the shop, during the next couple of years I spent a day a week reorganizing every nook and cranny of her home, from kitchen cupboards to wardrobes. I also helped hire and train her staff, and shopped for anything from bed linens to new pairs of jeans. You name it, I did it!

    At this point my main focus was still Bodie & Gibbs. Over the years, I had built some wonderful relationships with a number of clients who I would regularly dress for parties and events. I have always been one to push the boundaries, and I had encouraged many of them to move out of their comfort zone and try something different. I was flattered when they started to ask me to help them with their day-to-day look too, and this was how I started personal shopping.

    Not all personal shoppers will look at a client’s wardrobe before they shop, but for me it was a logical step, so that I could see what clothes they had and what was missing. I was often shocked to discover the way in which these ladies kept their clothes. No wonder they couldn’t get dressed! I realized that these women were not the unstylish, hopeless cases that they thought. In fact, some had wonderful pieces lurking in the depths of their wardrobe but that were just not getting used.

    I realized that I couldn’t help my clients or take them shopping until I could get ‘closet clarity’. And this is where my formula began to develop. I didn’t want to humiliate or embarrass anyone, but I needed them to try on their clothes so that we could establish what worked and what didn’t. By rehanging and reorganizing their closets, we were able to establish the gaps that needed to be filled when we went shopping.

    I guess that this is when Practical Princess started to take form. It slowly

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