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As I prepped to move from my studio apartment with two tiny closets to a one-bedroom with six of them—my boyfriend and I were making the leap into cohabitation—I believed I’d found the holy grail of storage.  I imagined it would go a little something like this: I’d get two closets in the bedroom (one with a hanging rack and the other with shelves), while my boyfriend would use a large double wardrobe just outside our room, across from the stacked laundry cabinet (which would house cleaning essentials along with brooms, mops, and stacks of paper towels). The entryway cupboard...

Look, we’d all love to organize our closets; nothing would bring us more joy than having a dozen bins for all of our belts, scarves, and miscellaneous odds and ends. But here’s the thing: Domino editors are New Yorkers, largely in possession of tiny apartments with equally small bedrooms, inside which are minuscule wardrobes—no shelves, no drawers, just a handful of inches of empty space. Given that our proclivity for collecting everything from vintage vessels to books to blazers is not likely to dissipate anytime soon, we figured it was time to call for professional backup. Enter: Melanie Fowler.  Fowler...

For fashion designers, closets aren’t just storage space, they’re home to their pride and joy, their pièce de résistance, their job: clothes. You’ll rarely (if ever) find sweaters half-falling off hangers or wrinkled blouses piling up in the corner. If anyone knows how to keep a closet organized, it’s them.  Their secret to keeping the mess to a minimum? Proper storage. No, we’re not talking about a custom walk-in with fancy valet rods and floor-to-ceiling shelves. When we asked Clare Vivier, Nina Sarin Arias, and four other stylish insiders to reveal what keeps their wardrobes looking neat, we discovered it’s...