bringing image consultancy to all…

Your First Impressions provides image consultancy to individual and corporate
clients with the aim of empowering people with confidence through personal image.
Services include style advice, colour analysis, make-up tutorials, tips on personal
grooming, wardrobe management, capsule wardrobe design, personal shopping,
Saturday morning workshops, bespoke group sessions and free workshops

The consultancy specialises in 1:2:1 “Total Image Profiling” and “Fast Track
to Style Programmes” in addition to guidance on personal styling and
effective branding for career advancement through professionally designed
image packages such as image & impact at interview

The company offers something for everyone, from free style tips in their
newsletters to stylishly gift wrapped vouchers providing the unique gift
experience for someone special.

The Studio, which is located in St Albans, Hertfordshire, was set up to
accommodate the growing demand for image professional services in
London and the South East. Jacky Williams offers the most up-to-date
methods for accurate colour analysis and has several years of experience
in design, personal styling and image consultancy.

Working from The Studio, a client’s home or company offices, Jacky has a
warm, friendly and professional approach allowing clients to reach their goals
for self improvement and career advancement.  Testimonials

Offering a wide range of services for both men and women, consultations
are designed with you in mind:

• teaching you how to save money
• explaining how you can save time
• boosting your self esteem and confidence levels
• showing you how to create a stylish look you feel happy with.
  
  
  “It’s not about being perfect, it’s about being you!”  Jacky Williams

Personal styling, shopping and wardrobe management for men

Welcome to Sartoria Lab, which provides Personal Shopping, Styling and Wardrobe Management services for men.

Statistics show that 70% of first impressions made are based on your appearance. Another 20% on how you sound, and just 10% on what you have to say. Therefore it makes sense for you to use your appearance as a powerful tool, whatever you’re looking to achieve. A great appearance is not only beneficial to you, it’s essential.

Sartoria Lab is a menswear personal style consultancy that is aimed at men that need to look good, but don’t necessarily have the time, inclination, or knowledge to do it themselves.

So if you would like to improve and update your image, whether it’s for a promotion at work, you’ve become newly single, or you just need to replenish your wardrobe, Sartoria Lab will work with you to achieve a cool, contemporary, and classy image, based on your lifestyle and needs.

Nothing to wear?

It’s a fact that most people wear 20% of their clothes 80% of the time!
If this is you, then why not think about a Wardrobe Detox. This session gives you the
skills to create and maintain a well organised capsule wardrobe of wearable clothes.

Our specially designed Wardrobe Management programme will:

• Identify your lifestyle and clothing requirements
• Assess and organise your current wardrobe
• Give advice on caring for garments and accessories
• Look at what works & show you how to rescue items which could work
• Identify any gaps and advise on how to fill them
• Provide tips on stress free shopping
• Show you how to put together finishing touches to co-ordinate your look

This consultation includes your personalised Wardrobe Management reference guide.

Capsule Wardrobe Design

TV shows like GOK Wan, Trinny & Suzannah and NHJ’s 10 Years Younger focus on
putting together stylish outfits. The results… an amazing wardrobe of interchangeable
clothes which provide the “WOW” factor.

Our Capsule Wardrobe Design Service brings everything together for you from colour
analysis, style and wardrobe personality to budget and lifestyle.  Taking all this
analysis into consideration we design a capsule wardrobe and show you how with
as little as 12 garments you can make 60 outfits!

Trade your full closet for a full life.

Source: Debbie Roes

While the days of buying an entirely new wardrobe every season have long gone by the wayside (remember I Love Lucy when Lucy and Ethel would go shopping for a new wardrobe every season?), I want to suggest that when you shop for clothing you shop with a wardrobe mentality, not a clothing mentality.

Let me explain. Imagine you were buying appliances, pots, pans and utensils for your new kitchen. You would go in and think clearly about your needs before you’d go to the store. You wouldn’t go in and buy 14 skillets, 16 blenders, no saucepans, 40 spatulas and two spoons, for example. You would go in with a clear sense of what you need to make your kitchen complete; there would be a plan and you’d make sensible choices based on your cooking needs.

As obvious as this sounds, this logic never seems to apply to shopping for clothing. Few women shop with any type of a plan with their needs clearly in mind. This is why when you look into the closets of most women you see things like too many pairs of black pants, shoes that never get worn, tags still on clothing and not enough of what they actually need. There is no plan.

Women get themselves into the conundrum for a variety of reasons. The first reason is when a woman shops as a form of therapy or because she is impulsive. Unlike shopping for kitchen appliances, clothing for many women, isn’t about filling needs as much as it is a stress reliever. The second reason this happens is when a woman doesn’t know what to do, how to shop, what her needs really are or because she is unsure about how to dress herself. As a result, the closet becomes a bunch of mistakes, safe purchases and just random buys. The intention is there but the execution isn’t.

This is why I want you to start thinking about shopping with a wardrobe mentality. A wardrobe is a cohesive grouping of clothing that actually works together. When you add a new clothing item you need to consider whether it works with what you already own. Just like you wouldn’t purchase another frying pan if you already had what you needed, there is no reason to load up on clothing items that are well covered in your wardrobe.

There is always the chance that there are no options in your existing wardrobe that will work with what you want to buy. When you find yourself in this situation, don’t buy the item and just make a mental note to eventually find coordinating pieces. Instead, look for something in the store to wear with it or actually write the needs down on a list, one that you will actually reference. All too often, a straggler orphan will get thrown in the closet, never to be seen again. Don’t toss it in the closet and lie to yourself that you’ll eventually get around to it. You never will.

Lastly, think more thoroughly about your wardrobe and actually take the time to work new pieces into your closet. If you’re not new to my blog, you know that clients actually book outfit sessions with me that can take two to three hours to complete. The importance of these sessions is to ensure that all the new pieces get incorporated in and that they can learn how to get the maximum use out of what they spend money on. As busy as you are, when you buy new items, set aside at least an hour to come up with a few ways to wear a new piece with what you already own. It will be time well spent; not only will you maximize the new and the old but you will able to review your existing wardrobe more frequently. One of the quickest ways a wardrobe gets stale is when it isn’t culled through on a regular basis.

Remember, just like everything else you stock up on, your clothing is no exception. The best way to be in control of your closet is to it with a wardrobe management mentality.

Source: Bridgette Raes