The Closet Project: One year of wearing every item in the wardrobe and buying nothing new

Last July Irene O’Brien set herself a challenge — she would wear every item of clothing in her wardrobe and buy nothing new. One year on, the stylist reflects on her fashion experiment

It all started with a flippant remark to my husband, (well, these things do, don’t they?). On hearing me proclaim I had nothing to wear, he gave a somewhat textbook-male response asking, “What about all of those clothes taking up 98% of our wardrobe space?”