Garde Robe

Who wouldn’t want endless closet space, luggage-less travel, design-house archiving, and cyber closet design? Cher’s virtual, manageable closet featured in Clueless is finally possible!


Garde Robe is the optimal service for luxury wardrobe storage and valet service in New York. Clos-ette has been working with Garde Robe for years and they are AMAZING! Without lifting a finger you can have your summer wardrobe stored away and retrieve your entire winter wardrobe, including your fur coats, which have been safely stored in a climate-controlled loft, within 24 hours. Each item is professionally photographed and catalogued, so while your summer items are tucked away, they will still be visible 24-7 on your virtual closet and you can have them the next day if necessary.
Garde Robe is THE go-to valet service for fashion devotees, New Yorkers with inadequate closet space, business travelers, multiple homeowners and fashion designers.


To have your entire wardrobe accessible via Internet, to see all your options, the virtual closet is a dream! When your closet is overflowing and you need storage space, which all native New Yorkers are very familiar with, have the items that you’re not wearing this season picked up and know that they are safely stored away and completely accessible in a moments notice.

Travel stress-free without dealing with luggage, packing/unpacking, baggage claim, wrinkled clothing, miniature toiletries, etc. Garde Robe will make sure your items, ready-to-wear, arrive at your destination, anywhere in the world, before you do. After your trip, your garments will be picked up, cleaned/repaired as needed, and stored for your next trip.


Each luxury option may not apply to everyone, so pick and choose! If you just want a cyber closet where you don’t have to search through your closet, the cyber closet will eliminate wasting time and aggravation!

Even high-end designers like Alexander McQueen, Carolina Hererra, and Oscar de la Renta trust their belongings and clothing lines with Garde Robe. Garde Robe has archives dating back 40 years with pieces that went down the runway in the 1970s! Ivanka Trump praises Garde Robe for storing her couture gowns with care, too.

Their services are endless. Aside from the storage space and virtual closet, Garde Robe will let you know when your pieces need repairs, perform tailoring for you, provide you with styling, personal shopping, consignment services, luggage-packing, wedding gown preservation and more. Become a member at www.garderobeonline.com, email info@garderobeonline.com, call 212.255.3047, or call VP Doug Greenberg directly at 212-255-3163. Also, all Clos-ette clients will receive an additional thoughtful welcome gift!

XOXO
Clos-ette

The psychology of storing a fancy heeled shoe...

You have finally found the perfect dress shoe for all your upcoming events. You get home after a long day of shopping, take them out of the box, admire them for a moment – applauding yourself once more for your fabulous taste, and then veryyyy carefully put them back into the box or dustbag that they came in and store them in the bottom of your closet until it’s time to wear them.





Now doesn’t that sound silly?! Consider all the time and money you invested into these shoes!
Not to mention that you’ll only be showing off your spectacular purchase for a few hours each month during your special occasions! No shoe lasts forever - Why not flaunt these shoes all year round? Conserve the floor space for your boots!
There are plenty of ways to display your shoes while making sure they stay looking brand new. Clos-ette can help you showcase your shoes on you and off!

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Clos-ette

Choosing the right safe...

How to choose the right safe or safety locks for drawers, closets or cabinets?

Our jewelry, precious papers and items need to be secure and although the closet is the right place for them often times people go outside the closet for more security- like their

Safes are something we install into our clients homes all the time. We do several Custom safes, besides the typical Empire safe or the pricey Traum safes which are the daily bread of the high-end residential closet world.




What does a good safe provide?


Bolted steel casing locked against theft, fires and floods.

Decorative and custom interiors can also provide beauty and organization.

Hides well behind beautiful cabinetry or wall space so it is hidden from plain sight.



What does a safe cost?


A behind cabinet safe should cost anywhere from 6k- 40k

Custom and Traum safes start at 25k and can go sky high into even the hundreds of thousands of dollars.


What is a good and less expensive alternative? I have a few.


Fabulous digital wall safes and simple safes sold at hardware stores which aren’t necessarily bolted down, can cost anywhere from between $500- 2000k and these safes can accommodate small amounts of jewelry and papers for safe keeping. Often these safes only lock and they do not protect against fire or flooding.

Bio Locks

Another option which I prefer to use the bio lock as an alternative to the less expensive less secure safe or the super high-end custom safe. I install them on my client’s cabinets or drawers. These locks can be hooked up to a light switch or even your in home security panel and are not visible from the outside of the drawer or cabinet. They are of course less conspicuous than a simple locked drawer but also stronger.



If broken into and hooked up to your alarm system, (most good bio locks hook up to most home security systems) it will set off the alarm. Bio Locks are great alternative to either of the above options and they can fit very easily into most storage and closet designs built out of cabinetry or existing cabinetry.

XOXO
Clos-ette

How to Pack up your Winter Wardrobe

LSD- this is for you!

Ok so hopefully it is officially time to put the heavy wools and cashmeres away, send the furs to storage and make room for the sarongs, shorts bathing suits, wide brimmed hats and sundresses!

How and where do we put these things. to start where do you live? A city- off site storage? an apartment? A home? with a basement or an attic?

finding the appropriate storage is key. temperature control is also key, otherwise mold, moths and water damage and oxygenation can foil your fabulous plans to "make room" in your closet!

Find your storage and then go from there. If you're keeping your items at home and have secured climate controlled storage either under your bed or in your attic or basement then let's talk about packing stuff up!

Make sure everything is clean before you fold it, or hang it up. I prefer natural fiber boxes and garment bags to plastic of paper ones. Plastic, although it protects from wetness, seals out some much needed air for many fabrics such as cashmere and silk leaving them to do that nasty "yellowing" we all know and HATE!

If you're gonna use plastic for anything, use it for your big cotton and wool sweaters, coats and pants and make sure you suck all the air out of them so they're as flat as possible.

Boots, shoes and handbags are an even bigger pain the butt, because they're bulky, come in odd sizes and cant be smushed! Try to store boots with boot trees in them and standing tall and I prefer to have my shoes on a shoe rack rather than in boxes however, if there is the possibility of dust of wetness best to box them. Make sure to label them either with a photo or a written description of the shoe in order to easily identify them if you need to get to them (i.e. a trip to Patagonia or skiing in chile in the summer!) I also stuff my purses and put them on a shelf and/or put shoe trees into them.

Some off site in NYC- Manhattan Mini Storage(more economical and more do-it-yourself)
Garde Robe NYC (with locations growing!) much more expensive and white glove service!

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Clos-ette

Custom Safes...How does one get one?

Custom safes are very cool because not only can you tweak the interior but also the exterior for a super custom fit. What does that mean for you? Well, instead of fitting a closet or build out around your safe, you can fit your safe around the built out furniture it will sit inside.

Custom safes are not that easy to stumble upon, you need to have access to a sub who uses the correct locking mechanisms and knows how to also make them secure, fireproof them etc.


A few custom safe features:
* beautiful custom drawers and trays with
* wood and enamel drawers and trays
* watch winder

Clos-ette can create the custom safe you need and want and so might your high-end residential architect. We suggest you make sure you go with a consultant who has done several custom safes and can references their locking system, do CAD drawings of the safe and mock-ups.

XOXO
Clos-ette

Luxury Closets

Luxury closets have come a long way in the past ten years. Clos-ette has dubbed the closet, "the last frontier of the home." Like their counterparts, bathrooms and kitchens, more and more people want closets designed with personality, innovation and maximal use of the space.

At Clos-ette, we focus on the architecture of the space and the details of the cabinetry or millwork design, and pay special attention to our clients' inventory in order to marry the two halves of any closet: the structure and the clothes. We pride ourselves on our in-depth knowledge of all the finest gadgets and gizmos one could possibly imagine to functionally and aesthetically enhance a closet. There's no doubt, a beautiful, organized, custom-designed closet is a luxury indeed!