Capsule wardrobes are everywhere, but most advice doesn’t work for high-achieving professional women and female founders whose lives, leadership roles, and visibility have evolved.

If your wardrobe feels full yet frustrating…
If you’re buying outfits for moments rather than your real life…
If getting dressed feels harder than it should, despite being competent everywhere else…

This episode explores how to build a capsule wardrobe for high-achieving women that supports identity, presence, and real life, without restriction, dullness, or conformity.

In this episode, Alex Standley Personal Stylist & Sustainable Fashion Consultant, reframes the concept of a capsule wardrobe through an identity-led, strategic lens. She explains why traditional capsule wardrobe advice often fails professional women, leaders, founders, and speakers, and how to create a wardrobe system that works for work, visibility, Zoom, travel, and everyday life.

You’ll learn why capsule wardrobes aren’t about having fewer clothes, but about having the right foundations, how personal style archetypes transform a capsule from generic to powerful, and how colour, structure, and sustainability play a key role in creating ease and confidence.

Episode Highlights

00:01 — Capsule wardrobes for high-achieving women (why the usual advice doesn’t work)

01:20 — The real problem: wrong foundations, not too many clothes

02:40 — What a capsule wardrobe actually is

03:12 — Why capsule wardrobes fail without identity
The missing piece most capsule wardrobe guides ignore.

03:45 — Style archetypes and identity-led styling

05:32 — Buying for events vs buying for real life

06:45 — When your life has changed but your wardrobe hasn’t

07:47 — Getting your neutrals right in a capsule wardrobe

09:30 — Foundations first, personality second

10:15 — Do you need to get rid of everything?

11:10 — Sustainable capsule wardrobes for professional women

12:35 — Capsule wardrobes for Zoom, speaking, and visibility
13:55 — The real point of a capsule wardrobe

Ready for Your Wardrobe to Match Who You’re Becoming?

If you’re stepping into bigger visibility: leadership roles, speaking, media, or simply being seen more, and you want to be remembered for your unique presence, not a polished version of everyone else…

The Luxe Style Formula is Alex Standley’s 1-to-1 strategic and transformational styling work for high-achieving women stepping into visibility and leadership.

This is high-level, intimate work, which is why Alex works with just three private clients per month.

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