Copenhagen · since 2014

A wardrobe that stops asking questions.

I am a personal stylist and wardrobe consultant. I work with what is already hanging in your room, take out what is arguing with the rest, and put back a set of pieces that agree with each other. Most people leave with a third of what they started with and twice as many outfits.

See the edits How a capsule works
  • 33 Pieces a season
  • 180 Wardrobes edited
  • 0 Commission taken
Liv Sandholt beside the rail in her Vesterbro room

The working set

The method

One set, twelve pieces, forty-one outfits

A capsule is not a smaller wardrobe. It is a wardrobe where every piece has to earn its hanger by working with at least four others. This is one client's set, written down the way I write every one of them down.

Piece 01 Monday 02 The hearing 03 Dinner 04 Saturday 05 On a plane 06 The school run 07 A good night 08 Sunday Used in
Black wool coat Nine years old, relined once 6
White cotton shirt Three of them, identical 5
Charcoal wide trouser Hemmed to sit on the shoe 4
Grey merino crew Worn under everything 5
Black blazer The only jacket in the room 3
Ivory wool knit The one soft thing 3
Straight black jean Rigid, never stretch 4
Grey pleated skirt Below the knee, always 2
Black leather loafer Resoled twice 5
White leather sneaker Replaced every twelve months 3
Black leather belt Brass buckle, no logo 7
Grey wool scarf October to April 4
Pieces per outfit 7 6 6 5 6 7 7 7 51

Twelve pieces, worn as eight outfits here and forty-one in practice. Nothing on this list was bought for one of them.

Client work

What came out, what went back

Every edit is published with its arithmetic. The hatched half of each bar is what the client already owned; the solid half is everything I asked them to buy.

Look 01

Working wardrobe

Eighty-four down to thirty-one

Four full days of clothes and nothing to wear on a Tuesday. We took the whole thing out onto the rail and put back a third of it.

24 already hers 7 bought

Autumn, four hours

Look 02

On the road

One coat, four knits, no logo

Sixty flights a year and a suitcase that never closed. Everything now folds flat and none of it creases.

18 already hers 6 bought

Winter, two half days

Look 03

Seasonal capsule

White shirts and nothing left to decide

An architect who dresses at six in the morning in the dark. The answer was fewer choices, not better ones.

19 already hers 12 bought

Spring, two half days

Look 04

Working wardrobe

Out of scrubs by six

Thirty years in hospital blues and no idea what to put on afterwards. We built the evening half of a life.

7 already hers 14 bought

Autumn, four hours

Look 05

New chapter

A first proper wardrobe

Twenty-eight, first salaried job, and a wardrobe assembled entirely out of other people's hand-me-downs.

21 already hers 3 bought

Summer, four hours

Look 06

Seasonal capsule

Thirty years of good coats

A retired judge with four decades of properly made clothes and a body that had changed twice since buying them.

26 already hers 2 bought

Winter, two half days

All twelve edits

Who is doing this

Eleven years, one small room

I do not have a signature look. You do, and it is usually already in the room.

I am Liv Sandholt. I trained on the shop floor at a department store, spent four years as a buyer's assistant learning what things cost to make, and have been editing private wardrobes out of a first-floor room on Skydebanegade since 2014.

I count things. Every wardrobe I edit leaves with a written number: what went out, what stayed, what came in, and how many outfits the remainder makes. It is the only honest way I know to prove that a wardrobe got smaller and better at the same time. I take no commission from any shop and I never sell you anything I would not put in my own thirty-three.

Who I usually work with
  • Employment lawyers
  • Software founders
  • Architects
  • Consultant surgeons
  • Diplomats
  • People going back to work

One session

What actually happens to your clothes

Everything comes out onto the rail and every piece gets a verdict and a reason. Nothing leaves the room without one, and nothing is thrown away: what goes out is sold, given or handed on, and I do that part.

This is one client's rail, written up the way I write every rail up. The reasons matter more than the verdicts, and every one of them gets said out loud in the room.

  • Black wool coat

    Nine years old and still the best thing in the room. Sent out for a new lining and a button.

    Kept Worn most days

  • Three white cotton shirts

    Same cut, bought together in 2021. Between them they do the work of nine shirts.

    Kept Replaced yearly

  • Grey wool trousers

    Right cloth, wrong break. Two centimeters off the hem and a taper below the knee.

    Altered $40 at the tailor

  • Camel overcoat

    The shoulder sat past her arm, which is why it had hung untouched for two winters.

    Altered $95 at the tailor

  • Black leather loafers

    Resoled twice. Nothing bought since has come close to them and she has tried.

    Kept Nine years

  • Navy pinstripe suit

    Bought for one interview in 2018 and not worn to a single thing since.

    Rehomed Worn twice

  • Eleven printed blouses

    Not one of them agrees with another thing on the rail, which is why none of them gets worn.

    Rehomed Eleven pieces

  • Two pairs of jeans

    Kept because they nearly fit. They have not nearly fitted for three years.

    Rehomed Never worn

  • Charcoal wide trouser

    The one shape missing between the coat and the loafers. Bought in week three, not week one.

    New $180

  • Grey merino crew

    Goes under the blazer, under the coat, and with nothing else. That is enough to earn a hanger.

    New $140
  • 3 Kept
  • 2 Altered
  • 3 Rehomed
  • 2 New
  • 10 Pieces handled

What you can book

Four appointments, four lengths

Everything is priced by the job, never by the hour. The bars are only here so you can see what you are giving up a morning or a day for.

0 20 hours

  • The first hour

    A conversation in your kitchen with the wardrobe doors open. No rail, no camera, no selling. If I am not the right person for it I will say so here.

    1 hour
    • Where Your home, or a call
    • You leave with An honest answer
    • From Free
    Ask for an hour

  • Wardrobe edit

    Everything comes out, every piece gets a verdict, and what stays goes back in as outfits instead of categories. You get the count the same evening.

    4 hours
    • Where Your home
    • You leave with A written count
    • From $650
    Book an edit

  • Seasonal capsule

    The edit first, then a list of what is genuinely missing, then one buying day spent on that list and nothing else.

    Two half days
    • Where Your home and the shops
    • You leave with 33 pieces, 40 outfits
    • From $1,600
    Book a capsule

  • A year of it

    Two capsules and every call in between: the new job, the wedding, the fortnight in Lisbon, the trousers that came back wrong.

    Four days a year
    • Where Wherever it is needed
    • You leave with Never thinking about it
    • From $4,200
    Ask about the year

Rates

What it comes to

Prices are in US dollars, for the job, and they include every hour it actually takes. What the clothes cost is yours and I never take a cut of it.

Where most people start

Wardrobe edit

$650

one appointment, about four hours

$7.74

a piece, to find out which of them have been working all along

$650 ÷ 84 pieces handled

  • Everything out of the wardrobe and onto the rail
  • A verdict and a reason for every piece
  • A tailoring list with what each alteration costs
  • The keepers put back as outfits, photographed
  • A written count, emailed the same evening
Book an edit

Most booked

Seasonal capsule

$1,600

two half days, three weeks apart

$48

a piece, for a season you never have to think about again

$1,600 ÷ 33 pieces

  • The full wardrobe edit, first
  • Three weeks to live with what is left
  • A shopping list of what is genuinely missing
  • One buying day, in the shops or online
  • The capsule matrix, kept current for the season
Book a capsule

For people who travel

A year of it

$4,200

billed once, used across twelve months

$350

a month, and the calls in between are not counted or billed

$4,200 ÷ 12 months

  • Two seasonal capsules, spring and autumn
  • Unlimited calls and photographs between them
  • Packing lists for anything over three nights
  • One event or wedding look a year
  • First refusal on every date in my calendar
Ask about the year

Half on booking, half when the count lands. Alterations and clothes are paid for by you, directly, and I take no commission from any shop. Travel outside Copenhagen is charged at cost and agreed before anything is booked.

In their words

What people say six months later

I collect these half a year after the edit, which is the only point at which they mean anything.

Marte Holm Partner, employment law Wardrobe edit, October

I had eighty-four things and nothing to wear, which I had always assumed was a joke people made. Six months on I own thirty-one and I have not once stood in front of the wardrobe at seven in the morning feeling stupid.

Anders Krag Founder, logistics software Seasonal capsule, March

She never told me what she liked. She asked what I actually do in a week, wrote it down, and then held things up against that until the honest answer was obvious to both of us.

Ingeborg Vestli Consultant surgeon Wardrobe edit, January

The tailoring list was the part I did not expect. Four things I already owned, ninety dollars in total, and they came back as the best clothes I have.

Youssef Ben Amar Structural engineer A year of it, second season

I travel about twenty weeks a year and I used to pack for a person I am not. The list she wrote has not changed since, and neither has the bag.

Elsewhere

Written about, and asked to speak

2026

  • The stylist who counts everything Press Rundt Magasin, issue 62
  • Thirty-three pieces: a working argument against the seasonal wardrobe Talk Design Museum Denmark, evening program

2025

  • What a wardrobe edit actually costs, and what it saves Press Havn Weekly
  • One rail, twelve clients Feature Copenhagen Fashion Week, off-schedule

2024

  • Nordic Styling Prize, private client category Prize Nordic Styling Council
  • Buying less without buying worse Talk Bjerre & Co, staff series

2023

  • Six people who wear the same nine things on purpose Press Politik og Papir, weekend edition

Booking

Finish the sentence

Six blanks. It tells me more than a form would, and it is the only thing I need before the first hour.

My name is and you can write back to me at . I live in and I dress mostly for . Right now my wardrobe is , and what I want out of this is .

No newsletter, no list, no follow-up unless you ask for one.
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