![]() At one point I'm someone's "sad little sister", the next I'm a queen. Our clothes are an extension of who we are.īy the time she's finished holding swatches up against my face I believe her entirely. Putting yours truly in the minimalist Cos ensemble and kitten heels that so suit our Fashion Editor Lucy Walker would look just as mad as if you put Lucy in my gigantic velvet coats and scarves. "You don't want to look at someone and feel tricked," she says. It's important that the clothing reflects the personality, as well as what colours suit them. "I wanted to know that I could dress a person in colours and then, without makeup, make them look like they'd just been dragged out of the grave, and then how to make the same person look sparkling and like Prince Charming," she says. ![]() For Gabriella, it's all about the transformative nature of colour. Instead, Chromology's system has its roots in Kathryn Kalisz's Sci\ART™. "You almost forgot that this person is still a person," she says. Within two minutes I had been whisked onto a comfortable chair, handed a coffee and was chatting 16 to the dozen about shape with Gabi, who has no time for the old apple/pear analysis. Safe to say I was not wearing my finest plumage, nor looking the best I could. She does home visits, but rather in fear of my wardrobe I went to go and see her at her Oxford studio on one of the greyest, most hellishly wintry days of the year. A set designer by day – in a wonderful coincidence, she designed the bar at last year's GLAMOUR Awards – Gabriella, known as Gabi, has long been fascinated by colour, and what suits other people, and says it's more about colour psychology rather than harmony. And when my friend Andrea, her husband, and their young son started looking like themselves only better, I knew something was up.Īndrea duly referred me to the secret of her family's glowing new look: Gabriella Winters at Chromology. If you see a newsreader on TV, it's almost guaranteed that they will have been "done".
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