How many times have you wished for someone, anyone to pack your suitcase. Well guess what? There’s an app for that. OK, maybe not an app, exactly, but there are several tech services to help lighten the load for the elite jet set.
Packing and unpacking are no one’s favorite part of any trip, we now have options of lifestyle concierge services that are available to harried travelers, to help us save valuable time and effort and our friends at the Travel Trade Gazette have helped us develop your best luxury road map to solving this problem.
One of our past cover girls, Ivanka Trump, uses Garde Robe, a membership-based program that offers offer a ‘luggage-free valet’ service with a climate-controlled, air-purified loft. Garde Robe’s Cyber Closet® is a one-of-a-kind tool for organizing and managing one’s clothing, footwear and accessory collections. Your Cyber Closet® is like a digital look-book, accessible on the Internet, where you can view and sort individual pieces, create categories for certain items, create outfits, and much more. Everything is photographed and cataloged in a Cyber Closet. The images and descriptions are merged onto your personal, password-protected Cyber Closet®, which can be accessed online at GardeRobeOnline.com.
The service is perfect for our readers, for many who are planning there summers in New York and winters Skiing in Europe.
Wardrobe Mistress a UK-based service will choose the best outfits for their clients travel requirements packed in tissue paper to avoid creases.
Another luxury service based right here in the United States, across the river in New Jersey is The Bidwell Group which offers clients the rich possibility of storing our off-season wardrobes, in “museum” quality conditions, with the ability to ship your prized possessions anywhere the world.
London-based Vault Couture offers to digitally archive the entire contents of a client’s closet, and also organizes and catalogs \ every piece, so finding any item is a simple click away.
If you find yourself in this position, you laptop do your packing and know that you have luxury options along the online superhighway.
-Grace A. Capobianco
www.downtownmagazinenyc.com