Jake RosenbergLouboutins, Chanel, collared sweaters, oh my! Behold, Oprah Winfrey's huge Harpo walk-in closet—let the daydreams commence.
Even a billionaire like the esteemed media mogul isn't above some spring cleaning. However, this cleanout is no light feat—physically and emotionally.
Five years after The Oprah Winfrey Show gave its final broadcast, the 62-year-old journalist is packing away 25 seasons of televised fashion and turning the page on a quintessential element of her career.
Now that Harpo Studios, the Chicago home of the show for a quarter-century, has closed, its finally time for Winfrey to bid adieu to her professional home with one last walk down sartorial memory lane.
Inside the seemingly endless space, Winfrey's collection of canary wrap dresses, peep-toed Louboutins and 15 Emmy statues among hundreds of other items are on full, but frenzied display.
Despite her continuous success as a producer and Weight Watchers investor, the entrepreneur is far less interested now in all the former fashion fanfare.
"I just don't need all this intense color, the embellishment, the heels anymore," she told The Coveteur. "When you're in front of TV cameras every day, you have to stand out, but I'm in a different place now, and those things no longer serve me."
After years of serving the public as a notable news figure, she's shifting her clothing priorities.
"My clothes were for being seen on TV or at an event," she said. "I'm still doing those things, but now my clothes are just for me."
While Oprah's slowly finding closure with the cleanup, parting with the threads meant letting go of a self-imposed expectation.
"You know, Adam [Glassman was] the one who made me realize I was holding on to clothes that were all about a dream I had for myself. I chose them for this idea I'd gotten into my head of how someone like me was supposed to live, but they had nothing to do with my actual life," she revealed. "That changed me!"
No matter the person or profession, a closet like that would change anyone's life.