“Personal style often becomes clearer when you stop trying to dress like everyone else.”

Our Christchurch Studio

Style & Shape Analysis sessions are available both in person at our Christchurch studio and digitally for clients throughout New Zealand and beyond.

Choose from either:

ESSENTIAL: $299

COMPREHENSIVE: $449

ESSENTIAL

• A one and a half hour session with Sara & Ciana to pinpoint your specific style personalities and determine your preferred cuts

• Guidance on how to blend what you like about each style personality into unique outfits

• A shopping list of items to incorporate into your wardrobe

• Laminated take home style archetype cards for shopping

• Laminated shape cards with cuts and details to embrace and avoid for areas of your body

• Digital Style Guide with your style archetypes and outfit inspiration

• Digital Shape Guide of the cuts that present your body how you enjoy, plus how to use colour and prints to lead the eye

BOOK ESSENTIAL

FAQ

Do I need to know my style already?

Not at all. Many clients come to us because they feel disconnected from their wardrobe or unsure how to define their personal style. Style & Shape Analysis is designed to help you better understand your natural preferences, proportions and style identity in a way that feels approachable and intuitive — not overwhelming.

Can this work if I hate shopping?

Absolutely. In fact, many clients feel exhausted or frustrated by shopping before their session. Understanding your style, preferred silhouettes and what genuinely works for you often makes shopping feel significantly easier, more focused and less emotionally draining.

Is this about body typing?

Our approach is much more nuanced than rigid “body typing” systems. Rather than focusing on rules or trying to change your body, we look at balance, proportion, personal preference and how you want to feel in your clothes. The goal is to help you feel more like yourself — not fit into a formula.

Can sessions be done online?

Yes. We offer both in-person sessions at our Christchurch studio and digital options for clients throughout New Zealand and beyond.

What if my style feels inconsistent?

That’s incredibly common. Most people are drawn to multiple aesthetics, moods or influences, and personal style often evolves through different stages of life. Our sessions help you identify the common threads running through your preferences so your wardrobe can feel more cohesive while still reflecting the different parts of your personality.

Style & Shape Analysis

Style that feels like you.

Personal styling designed to help you understand your style identity, preferred silhouettes and the cuts that make you feel most confident.

Sara and Ciana will sit down with you (over video or in person) for a session all about style archetypes. You will learn your three distinct style archetypes, the details and aesthetics of each and how you can blend them to create outfits that truly reflect you!. Then, we'll use the silhouettes from your style archetypes and work with you and your body preferences to suggest cuts and silhouettes that make you feel confident. Discover the silhouettes, proportions and style archetypes that feel most aligned with you — helping getting dressed feel easier, more cohesive and more intuitive.

BOOK STYLE & SHAPE

Style isn’t about fitting into one aesthetic

Many clients come to us feeling disconnected from their wardrobes — overwhelmed by trends, unsure why certain outfits never feel quite right, or struggling to define their own personal style.

Our Style & Shape Analysis sessions are designed to help you understand:

what you naturally gravitate toward
which silhouettes feel most reflective of your personality and confident in your body
how to blend your style influences into a wardrobe that feels authentic and wearable.

COMPREHENSIVE

• A one and a half hour session with Sara & Ciana to pinpoint your specific style personalities and determine your preferred cuts

• Guidance on how to blend what you like about each style personality into unique outfits

• A shopping list of items to incorporate into your wardrobe

• Laminated take home style archetype cards for shopping

• Laminated shape cards with cuts and details to embrace and avoid for areas of your body.

• Personalised digital Style Guide with your style archetypes, outfit inspiration and your best accessories

• Personalised outfit formulas based on your style archetype blends

• One page Style Snapshot outlining your style blend, style preferences and gap list

• Personalised digital Shape Guide of the cuts, present your body how you enjoy, plus how to use colour and prints to lead the eye

BOOK COMPREHENSIVE

Cool Summers sit close to Winter but need slightly lighter, softer colours than their sister season of Cool Winter.

If you're ready to streamline your shopping and make putting together outfits SO much easier, then it's probably time to book that colour analysis! Send us a dm or book through our website 🩷

www.malonestyling.com

A little while ago we shared our personal style mood boards and talked about the idea that style can be autobiographical.

The things we’re consistently drawn to often tell a story.

The colours that feel like home.
The eras we return to again and again.
The silhouettes that make us feel most like ourselves.
The textures, patterns and references that spark something familiar.

When we looked closely at our mood boards, certain themes kept appearing.

✨ Ciana’s was full of playful colour, vintage references, mod influences and a sense of optimism. There’s creativity, curiosity and a love of history woven through it.

✨ Sara’s had softer nostalgia, earthy warmth, texture, storytelling, craftsmanship and a slightly rebellious streak. Romantic, expressive and a little unconventional.

Neither board was created by following trends.

They were created by paying attention to what has consistently resonated over time.

That’s often where personal style lives — not in what’s new, but in the patterns that keep finding their way back to us.

We’re curious:

If your wardrobe told your story, what themes would keep showing up? 💛

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Dress as the author of your life 📖 go on. We dare you 👻

Some people become style icons because they wore beautiful clothes.

Others become style icons because they wore a clear story.

Jane Birkin wasn’t memorable because of one dress.

Diane Keaton wasn’t memorable because oversized tailoring was trending.

Iris Apfel wasn’t memorable because maximalism was fashionable.

Their style felt recognisable because it reflected something deeper about who they were.

A mood.
A value.
A way of moving through the world.

Over time, they repeated those visual cues so consistently that their style became part of their identity.

The same is true for all of us.

Personal style isn’t usually built through constant reinvention.

It’s built through noticing the colours, silhouettes, textures, eras and moods that keep showing up throughout your life — and allowing them to become part of your visual language.

The most memorable style is rarely the most fashionable.

It’s the most authentic.

✨ What do people instantly associate with your style?

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What are you doing to express your own style? 🌋

Vintage doesn't have to mean dressing head-to-toe in one era.

The pieces that work best are usually the ones that feel like a natural extension of your style — whether that's a vintage jacket, a favourite handbag, or a silhouette you keep coming back to.

Think less about recreating a look and more about borrowing the elements that speak to you.

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Clothing is a chance to share with the world information about who you are:
• your loves
• your politics
• your history
• your sensibilities
• where you grew up
• the eras and artists that speak to you

Clothing is a way to wrap yourself in an environment that makes you feel happy, safe, confident.

More often than not we hear that getting dressed is a stress factor. Something that can make people feel judged, less than, out of date, unattractive.

It doesn't have to be this way! What you wear can tell the story of who you are...

...and we love to help people reconnect with that!

If you'd like to reclaim your style get in touch ❤️

www.malonestyling.com

#personalstyle #colouranalysischristchurch #vibtageclothing

The eras we’re drawn to often say something deeper about us.
Aesthetically, but often our personality as well.

Maybe you love the playful polish of the 60s.
The earthy sensuality of the 70s.
The bold confidence of the 80s.
The effortless minimalism of the 90s.
Or the experimental, pop-culture energy of the 2000s.

You don’t need to dress head-to-toe “in costume” to borrow from an era that resonates with you.

Personal style starts with noticing the silhouettes, colours, textures and moods you repeatedly come back to. They usually reflect something about who you are (or who you’re becoming).

Fashion history doesn’t just tell us how people dressed.
It tells us what people longed for, rebelled against, romanticised and expressed.

Maybe that’s why certain eras still feel true to us now ✨

We’d love to know — which fashion era do you always find yourself drawn to? 👀

Vintage reminds us that style was never meant to be disposable.

Before fashion moved at the speed it does now, people built wardrobes slowly. Clothes were kept, repaired, treasured — and often became part of someone’s identity.

A signature silhouette. A favourite colour palette. A way of dressing that was recognisably them.

People wore their stories. Their local histories. Their influences, aspirations, rebellions and sense of self.

Vintage woos us with whispers of who we are, we were, and who we're meant to be.

Thise pieces you’re repeatedly drawn to?
The colours, textures, shapes and eras you can’t stop thinking about?
They usually say something deeper about you.
And trust us, we would love to see you wearing your story ❤️ your individuality intrigues us, what makes you unique teaches us to respect you, be interested in you, and get to know you.

Are you a vintage lover? Give us a ❤️‍🔥 if vintage vibes attract you too!

A little glimpse into a Malone colour analysis session ✨

From finding your undertone and best seasonal palette through to makeup advice, outfit colour combinations, styling tips and easy ways to actually use your colours in real life.

Coming Monday night 🌙 How 90s Films Shaped our Style Identities: Clueless, Pretty Woman, The Craft.

Follow WORN on Spotify & Malone Sustainable Styling on YouTube for our podcast episodes ❤️

We tend to talk about fashion as trends, aesthetics or shopping.

But a lot of us learnt lessons subconsciously from films like Clueless, Pretty Woman and The Craft:

That clothing affects confidence.
That presentation changes perception.
That style can create belonging, protection or reinvention.

Long before “fashion psychology” became a mainstream conversation, these films were already exploring it.

Which movie do you think shaped the way you see style the most?

Fashion trends evolve.

Style identities usually don’t.

Because underneath every aesthetic is often the same emotional driver that existed 20–30 years ago.

💛 Clueless girls still want to feel polished, socially confident and put together.

❤️ Pretty Woman girls still use style to express confidence, visibility and self-worth.

🖤 The Craft girls still dress for identity, protection and belonging.

The silhouettes changed.
The psychology didn’t.

Which one are you in 2026? ↓

90s films didn’t just influence fashion trends.
They shaped entire style identities.

The polished femininity of Clueless.
The dark rebellion of The Craft.
The aspirational glamour of Pretty Woman.

You can still see their descendants in the aesthetics women gravitate toward today:
quiet luxury, clean girl minimalism, gothic romanticism, coquette, mob wife glamour, office siren, hyper-femininity, “model off duty”.

Different aesthetics. Same emotional language.

Style has always been tied to identity.
To the version of ourselves we want to step into — or protect.

Confidence. Belonging. Power. Softness. Rebellion. Control. Freedom.

Fashion changes constantly.
But the emotional reasons we get dressed? Not so much.

Which modern aesthetic do you think has the strongest 90s film DNA?

Our style preferences start to develop long before we enter adulthood. 👩‍🎓

It's one of the aspects about styling an individual that we find most fascinating time and again.

Before we even know what fashion is, we absorb aesthetics, attitudes, and emotions tied to clothes.

One of the most prevalent, but often unrecognised, places that informs these early germs of style are films 🎬.

In next week's Pocast we do a deep dive into three 90s films that have impacted both us and the culture of fashion ever since.

And in the lead up we'll be sharing a bit about them each day.

We hope you follow along and would love to know - what film (these or another) do you think has played a part in the development of your own fashion sense?

#personalstyle #90sfilm #90sfashion #colouranalysis

It's not a commodity. It's a creative process.

I find it fascinating how language shifts based on how society changes and how those shifts in language reinforce how we think about the world around us.

Pre 'ready-to-wear' Outfit was a creative process. Now, its a fashion commodity.

#personalstyle #colouranalysis #sustainablefashion

Watch to the end for the answer 👀

Did you guess correctly?
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#colouranalysis #personalstyle #sustainablefashion

Our latest podcast Worn is out and we are deep diving into why getting dressed feels so hard and what you can do to fix it.

Link is in our bio and our stories. Or, search Worn podcast on Spotify or Malone Sustainable Styling on YouTube ❤️

#personalstyle #colouranalysis #sustainablefashion #styleover30

Shopping without an understanding of your wardrobe is setting yourself up for failure.

When you purchase something new - you should easily be able to work it in to AT LEAST 3 outfits you already wear.

Is the new piece:
🏹 A gap?
🏹 A colour you feel good in / works with your other clothes colours?
🏹 A shape that elevates your confidence?
🏹 Have style details that fit your personality?
🏹 Can be worn with multiple other pieces in your wardrobe?

If yes = get it!
If no❗️ leave it
If you don't know the answer to some of these = you need a blue print. We can help.

#shopbetter #personalstyle #wardrobehelp

If getting dressed feels harder than it should… there’s nothing wrong with you.
Your wardrobe just isn’t supporting you the way it’s meant to.

If it does, you’re not alone.

Over the next few days we’re breaking down what’s actually going on when your wardrobe feels overwhelming, frustrating, or like nothing works — even when it’s full.

It’s not about more clothes.

It’s about why your current system isn’t working for your current life.

#personalstyle #fashionover40 #wardrobeedit

Results are in! LIGHT SUMMER

If you guessed Summer or Spring 👏 She is a flow between the two but leans more to the Summer side. This beauty is VERY close to Spring though with her best Light Summer colours being closer to neutral and quite vibrant.

Yes, even in your palette you can lean more one way than the other - e.g., I'm (Sara) a Light Summer but am closer to Soft Summer than Light Spring.

Want to know your best colours? DM us or head to our website - we can analyze you no matter where you live xx

#colouranalysis #personalstyle #colouranalysisnz

Results to follow but for now - place your guess! 👇

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Essentials only work if they’re essential to you.

Hot take:
some of your “must-haves”… shouldn’t be in your wardrobe.

White shirt? Maybe not.
Neutrals? Not always.
Trends? Only if they actually suit you.

If you’ve ever bought an “essential” and never worn it… you know.

Tell us — what’s the one “wardrobe staple” that’s never worked for you? 👀

And if you’re ready to build a wardrobe that does…
you know where to find us 🤍

Sometimes it’s not the products — it’s the colours.🎨

If you’ve been guessing when it comes to the right makeup shades, colour analysis can give you a bit more clarity by simplying things and giving you a clear direction.

If you’re curious about your best shades, contrast, and the kind of makeup that actually feels like you — send us a DM or book online.

Alright… the verdict is in 👀

She’s a **Cool Summer** ❄️💙

When the colours are off, her skin dulls and goes a little sallow… but in the right palette? Everything looks clearer, brighter, more even. No makeup trick — just the right tones doing their thing.

Still guessing your season? Come find out for real with Malone Sustainable Styling ✨

DM us “COLOUR” or book via the link x

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