This is the step that decides whether the rest is useful. A model reading a heap of clothes on a chair gives you heap-quality advice. Ten minutes of laying things out changes the whole output.
Run these in one chat, in sequence. Each one builds on the answer before it, so context accumulates instead of resetting.
1. The inventory. Upload your photos, then paste this. Do not skip to the capsule, because a catalogue you have corrected is what makes every later answer accurate.
These photos are my entire current-season wardrobe, laid out in batches by category. Go through them and build me a numbered inventory of every separate item you can see.
For each item give me: a short name I would recognise it by, the category (top, bottom, dress, outer layer, shoe, accessory), the colour described precisely rather than loosely (for example warm cream, cool charcoal, mid-wash denim), whether it reads as a neutral or an accent colour, the formality on a scale of 1 to 5 where 1 is loungewear and 5 is formal, and the seasons it works in.
Where you are unsure of a colour or a fabric, say so and ask me rather than guessing, because I will be building a colour-coordinated capsule on top of this list. At the end, tell me how many items you counted in each category and flag any category that looks thin.Read the inventory and correct it in plain language before continuing: "item 14 is olive, not brown", "the third top is silk, so it is a 4 not a 2". Two minutes here saves every prompt after it.
2. The capsule. This is the one that does the actual work.
Using the corrected inventory, build me a colour-coordinated capsule wardrobe from what I already own. Do not suggest anything I do not have yet in this answer.
Pick the core pieces that work hardest together and explain the colour logic in one short paragraph: which two or three neutrals are carrying the capsule, which accent colours sit against them, and which of my items clash with that core and should sit outside the capsule for now. Then list every outfit combination the capsule makes, numbered, each written as the actual items by name (top plus bottom plus layer plus shoes), and tag each outfit with the occasion it suits: casual day, work, dinner or going out, and travel.
Group the outfits so I can see them by occasion, and tell me the total number of outfits the capsule produces. If a piece only appears in one outfit, call it out, because that tells me it is not earning its place. My climate is [your city or typical weather] and my usual week looks like [for example: three days at a desk, gym most evenings, one dinner out].3. The hardest-working pieces and the real gaps. This is where the shopping list stops being a wish list.
Now analyse the capsule you just built. Rank my top ten hardest-working pieces by how many different outfits each one appears in, and show the count next to each, so I can see which items are actually carrying my wardrobe.
Then find the gaps, but only the gaps that unlock real outfits. For each suggested purchase tell me: exactly what it is including the colour, how many new outfit combinations it would create with pieces I already own, which specific existing items it pairs with, and a realistic price range. Rank the suggestions by outfits unlocked per dollar, and cap the list at five things.
Be honest with me: if a gap is a nice-to-have rather than something that unlocks outfits, say so and put it at the bottom. Also name anything in my wardrobe that appears in zero outfits, and tell me whether it is worth keeping for a specific occasion or whether it is genuinely dead weight.4. The lookbook. Ask for the visual version so you can see the combinations rather than reading them.
Create a clean lookbook image of my capsule outfits, laid out as a grid with one outfit per cell, flat-lay style on a plain cream background, with each garment drawn in the exact colours from my inventory and the outfit number labelled underneath.
Start with the first eight outfits from the casual day and work groups. Keep the illustration simple and consistent: same angle, same spacing, no models, no busy backgrounds, no text other than the outfit numbers.
Then, separately from the image, give me the same eight outfits as a plain text list I can paste into my notes app, each one written as the item names plus the occasion, so I have a version I can actually search on my phone.5. The week planner. The prompt that turns the capsule into something you use on a Tuesday morning.
Using only the capsule outfits you built, plan my outfits for the next seven days. My week is [list what you are doing each day, for example: Monday office, Tuesday work from home, Wednesday office plus dinner, Thursday gym and errands, Friday office, Saturday brunch, Sunday nothing].
For each day give me one outfit by item name, one alternative in case something is in the wash, and a one-line reason it suits the day. Do not repeat the same top two days running, and spread the wear across the wardrobe rather than leaning on the same three favourites.
At the end, tell me which items I will need to wash mid-week for this plan to work, and which two pieces I did not use at all this week.The inventory lives inside that conversation. Start a new chat next month and you are uploading everything again. Two ways to keep it, and they solve different halves of the problem.
Three wardrobe apps worth the upload, and what each is actually good at: