Services and rates

Three ways in, depending on where you are.

Most people start with the consultation. Some skip straight to the closet. Almost nobody should start with shopping, and I will say so if that is what you asked for.

A consultation at the studio

90 minutes · $220

The consultation

We sit down, at my studio on West 13th or over video, and go through what you own, what you reach for, and what you own and never touch.

I ask about the parts nobody puts in a brief: the commute, the temperature of your office, whether you carry a bag or a backpack, how often you actually go out in the evening.

You leave with a written note: what your wardrobe is doing well, the three things working against you, and whether a closet edit or a shopping day makes more sense next.

What’s included

  • Ninety minutes, in person or over video
  • A written summary within two days
  • A short list of what to stop buying
  • No obligation to book anything else

If you book a closet edit within a month, the $220 comes off it.

Clothes sorted on a bed during a closet edit

Half a day, about four hours · $480

The closet edit

I come to you. We empty the entire closet onto the bed, including the back of it, including the box in the hallway.

Everything gets tried on. This is the part people dread and it is over faster than they expect, because the decisions get easy once things are on a body instead of a hanger.

What goes back in is what you would wear this month. The rest is sorted into three piles and I give you the name of the tailor, the resale place and the donation point I use.

What’s included

  • Four hours at your home, anywhere in the five boroughs
  • Everything tried on, nothing decided from the hanger
  • Three sorted piles with a contact for each
  • A written gap list, usually eleven or twelve items
  • Photographs of the outfits we build, sent the same evening

Nothing is bought during this session. That is deliberate.

A rail of selected pieces on a shopping day

Six hours · $850

The shopping day

I choose the stores before we meet, from the gap list. Usually four, never more than five, and we do not browse.

You try, I hold the list and say no a lot. The point of the day is not to fill bags, it is to close specific gaps with things that work with what you already own.

We stop when the list is done. Twice this year that has been at two in the afternoon, and we went and had lunch.

What’s included

  • Stores chosen and called ahead
  • Six hours with me, fitting rooms included
  • A running list of what is still open
  • Alterations booked on the spot where needed
  • A follow-up note on how the new pieces slot into the old ones

I take no commission from any store. Ever. Ask me about this if it matters to you, it should.

Questions I get asked

Do I need to buy new clothes?

Usually less than you think. The most common outcome of a closet edit is that someone discovers they own four good things they had stopped seeing. The gap list is normally eleven or twelve items and most people close it over a year.

What’s the budget for the shopping day?

That is yours to set and I work inside it. I have done the day at $600 and at $9,000. The method is identical. What changes is where we go.

I’m between sizes right now.

Then this is a good moment, not a bad one. Dressing a body that is changing is a specific problem and it has specific answers. Waiting until you are a size you remember is how people spend two years in the same three outfits.

Do you work with men?

Yes, about a third of my clients. The method does not change.

Can you do this over video?

The consultation, yes, and it works well. The closet edit, only if someone else is in the room to move things. The shopping day, no.

Not sure which one?

Write me two lines about what is going on. I will tell you which session fits, or that none of them do.

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