Not long ago, I had the good fortune of making the acquaintance a closet therapist. No, she is not someone who does not know she is a therapist and has yet to tell the world, but rather, a therapist of another sort, one who specializes in helping you make the most of yourself IN your closet….literally.

Barbra knows a thing or two about how fashion fuses with emotions. As a child, Barbra used clothing as her armor. If she was having a bad day, her mantra was, “look better!”, and looking good was what the Horowitz family knew how to do best. Little did she know that the mantra would develop in her a liberating sense of detachment from clothes which was further stoked by her mother’s inspiring zeal for experimentation. Having a bad day? Cut the sleeves off your t-shirt. Don’t like that wool coat anymore? Throw it in the dryer and see what happens.

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