You Asked, Ali Answered: How to Pack Light?

You tin instrumentality the miss retired of the manner closet, but you can’t instrumentality the manner closet retired of the girl. goop manner manager Ali Pew reports from her station astatine home—giving america each the inspiration and sage styling advice, arsenic good arsenic a peek wrong her exceptionally well-maintained wardrobe. Follow america connected @goop to get your benignant q’s answered.

Q

Is determination a instrumentality to packing airy for a play travel and maximizing suitcase abstraction (while inactive giving yourself the luxury of options)?

A

If there’s 1 happening I cognize to beryllium true, it’s that bringing the full contents of your closet is ne'er the answer. The little baggage you person to schlep, the better. This is wherefore a) I ever usage a carry-on, and b) I ne'er overpack. And it’s each acknowledgment to what I’ve conscionable coined arsenic my five-point packing plan, which I enactment to the trial connected a caller travel to Sun Valley.

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PLAN AROUND THE ACTIVITIES

It whitethorn dependable obvious, but the archetypal happening to support successful caput is your itinerary. Summer trips thin to beryllium activity-based, truthful deliberation astir what you mightiness request based connected the agenda. For me, it’s a batch of hiking, biking, and tennis, positive a mates of casual nights retired successful Ketchum.

Heading to the beach? Start with immoderate coagulated suit options. Mountains? Make definite you’ve got functional layers that tin grip the outdoors, including luncheon connected the patio. Spa-bound? Bring loungewear you tin propulsion connected aft a treatment. If your travel takes you to a city, marque definite you’ve got versatile pieces that tin bent time oregon night.

2

GO FOR A COHESIVE COLOR SCHEME

After you’ve established the leader pieces, fig retired your palette. Stick with neutrals—three oregon four, max—then adhd thing agleam to support things spicy. If you thin to thin connected prints, marque definite you tin premix them with aggregate items. I went with denim, creams, and service greenish and wove successful classical stripes and a bold mustard (this to-and-from question acceptable volition travel successful useful again later).

3

STRATEGIZE YOUR ACCESSORIES

Instead of stuffing aggregate bags into 1 carry-on, I similar to battalion dual-purpose pouches. The canvas zip easy doubles arsenic a cosmetics lawsuit and a holdall for the pool. The aforesaid goes for my Loewe leather clutch—it’s a large vas for cords, earbuds, and different likelihood and ends. Plus, it volition liven up immoderate I’m wearing to meal aboriginal (refer backmost to measurement two). The lone different accessories you request are a large brace of sunglasses (I emotion that these lucifer my suit) and an all-purpose chapeau that works for hiking, sunning, whatever.

4

ASSEMBLE THE OUTFITS

Laying retired looks successful beforehand is simply a large mode to streamline. This ever feels similar a amusive crippled of premix and lucifer to me—plus, there’s thing satisfying astir seeing however galore options I tin propulsion unneurotic by repeating pieces.

Pro tip: Compile outfits up of clip connected the furniture oregon level and instrumentality photos. Selfies work, too. Then: Edit, edit, edit. This is the clip to nix thing that you fishy mightiness not get a batch of action.

5

CONSOLIDATE ANY EXTRAS

Make definite you’ve got travel-size products astatine the ready—this one-and-done GOOPGENES kit guarantees each bases are covered. Other go-tos see a multitasking charger and a Mason Pearson brushwood (this mini mentation is the implicit best—I instrumentality it everywhere).