Closet Therapy

October 3, 2023

Janet Kelly

…clothes—whether you need them or not. Author, wardrobe consultant and stylist Allison Bornstein disagrees with me. In the just-published Wear It Well: Reclaim Your Closet and Rediscover the Joy of Getting Dressed, she proposes that your closet is connected to…

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Closet Complaints

October 10, 2016

andrea rouda

iStock EACH MORNING when I get dressed I hear snickering from one side of my closet. That’s where all my skinny pants hang out. I can’t fit into about five pairs of jeans, two of them never even worn. I…

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What's in Her Closet? Kathryn Bigelow

August 15, 2017

Nancy McKeon

…their closet and things just magically fall onto their bodies. It look as though she doesn’t even try. It just all comes together on its own. I think I hate her a little bit. JANET: Like this departure from usual…

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What's in Her Closet? Viola Davis

November 21, 2017

Janet Kelly

…to strike up a conversation with Vogue magazine editor Anna Wintour, who apparently wasn’t in the mood to chat. But lets’s talk about her closet. The 51-year-old, 5-foot-5-inch actor rarely makes a misstep. She has a well-toned, muscular body and…

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What's in Her Closet? Laura Dern

January 2, 2018

Janet Kelly

…She must have a really wild closet.   Arriving at the London premiere of “Star Wars: The Last Jedi,” December 2017. / Photo by Richard Young / REX / Shutterstock. NANCY: This frothy confection is from Alexander McQueen, but this…

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The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel's Closet

February 13, 2018

Janet Kelly

…takes on marriage, the wisdom of having children, gender inequality and hypocrisy hit home with audiences. As for us, we’re looking forward to see where Midge’s life goes next season—and to the new clothes in that marvelous closet of hers….

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What's in Her Closet . . . as Nancy Pelosi Steps Down

November 17, 2022

Nancy McKeon

Four years ago we ran this story on Nancy Pelosi, who was Speaker of the US House of Representatives, twice. The story was part of our “What’s in Her Closet?” series featuring prominent women who get photographed all the time….

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What's in Her Closet? Brigitte Macron

August 29, 2017

Janet Kelly

Brigitte Macron at the May presidential inaugural of her husband, Emmanuel Macron. / Photo by Alfonso Jimenez / Rex / Shutterstock. THE FIRST LADY OF FRANCE doesn’t care much for titles. In fact, as she told Vogue, “I don’t feel…

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What's in Her Closet? Nancy Pelosi

September 12, 2017

Janet Kelly

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi on her way to attend a news conference where House Democratic lawmakers and the LGBT community voiced opposition to Trump’s transgender ban in the military, July 26, 2017. / Photo by Michael Reynolds / EPA…

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What's in Her Closet? Leslie Jones

September 26, 2017

Janet Kelly

“SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE” comic actress Leslie Jones made headlines in June 2016 when she tweeted she was having a hard time finding a designer to make a dress for her “Ghostbusters” premiere. Christian Siriano, who came to the attention of…

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What's in Her Closet? Helen Mirren

October 10, 2017

Janet Kelly

HELEN MIRREN has played a queen so often, it’s easy to think she’s royalty. In 2003, she was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire, so there’s that, and in 2015 the 72-year-old actress became one…

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What's in Her Closet? Emma Thompson

October 24, 2017

Janet Kelly

THERE ARE SO MANY things to like about Emma Thompson. She smiles with her eyes; she poses lightheartedly for the camera. You can imagine having a conversation with her like you would with a good friend. She didn’t hesitate to…

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What's in Her Closet? Holly Hunter

November 8, 2017

Janet Kelly

ACTOR HOLLY HUNTER has a long list of credits (“Broadcast News,” “Thirteen,” TV’s “Saving Grace,” and most famously, a Golden Globe and an Oscar for her role as a mute piano player in the 1993 film “The Piano.” Most recently,…

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What's in Her Closet? Sarah Jessica Parker

December 5, 2017

Janet Kelly

SHE’S THE DESIGNER and entrepreneur behind her own shoe line (SJP), the star and one of the producers of HBO’s “Divorce” and mother of three. And, of course, Sarah Jessica Parker will always be remembered as Carrie Bradshaw in “Sex…

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What's in Her Closet? Meryl Streep

December 20, 2017

Janet Kelly

OH MY, MERYL. Is there any role you can’t play? A Nazi concentration camp survivor, an imperious fashion editor, an opera singer with a terrible voice. Most recently, the actor crushes the part of Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham, who…

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What's in Her Closet? Gayle King

January 16, 2018

Janet Kelly

GAYLE KING is co-anchor of the news show “CBS This Morning.” Just as famously, if not more, the 64-year-old is Oprah Winfrey’s best pal and an editor-at-large for Winfrey’s magazine. In sync with the Time’s Up movement, King wore a…

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What's in Her Closet? Candice Bergen

January 30, 2018

Janet Kelly

Candice Bergen as Murphy and Charles Kimbrough as anchorman Jim Dial in an episode from the late ’80s sitcom “Murphy Brown.” Bergen wears a tailored jacket and even a tie, power dressing signatures of the era. / Photo courtesy of…

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From Closet to Collection

May 27, 2015

Nancy McKeon

Marjorie Merriweather Post, circa 1935. Or as Time magazine later called her, Marjorie Merriweather Post Close Hutton Davies May because of her four marriages. / Photo by John Alfred Piver, courtesy of Hillwood. Marjorie Merriweather Post began to document her

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