Megabucks wardrobes

I'm guessing Grazia magazine has been reading It's a Look this week (they're big fans), as this week's issue also has a wardrobe-related feature about billionaire Formula 1 boss Bernie Ecclestone's daughter Petra. Now Petra, 22, has a walk-in wardrobe that resembles a designer boutique, filled as it is with labels such as Balmain and Versace, with drawers bursting with La Perla smalls and even gold (probably) shelves heaving with Louboutins. So grand is her clothing collection that Petra actually has to keep her eveningwear separate, in a dressing room next door. And all this in a modest little Chelsea pad valued at a cool £56m.

Picture: Mel Yates/Grazia

Thing is, if I had that much money, I might be tempted to do a little more than the obvious spotlit shoe display cabinet, climate-controlled dressing room, customised Birkin shelves and what have you. I mean, come on, Petra, have a little imagination here. Surely electronic revolving shoe shelves, which rotate from flats to heels with the flick of a button. Or sliding clothes racks that glide smoothly along runners to the daywear/eveningwear selection depending on your choice.

Or how about a touch-screen keypad of options on the front of the wardrobe, so you can select the event you're dressing for, your mood, what sort of activities you'll be doing that day, etc, then your IW (Intelligent Wardrobe) will compute the perfect outfit for said event, complete with appropriate footwear and a choice of accessories.

And why not really go to town and have plasma screen TVs on the walls inside your dressing room, showing back-to-back episodes of Sex And The City? And hire a wardrobe mistress to pop by regularly whisk away items that need mending/cleaning/repairing. Ooh, and expensive, flattering mirrors (complete with figure- and skintone-enhancing lighting), which show you from every angle, on voice command, and even offer you compliments with varying levels of adulation, depending on your positivity levels. Thus, when the mirror asks 'And how are we feeling this morning?' and you sulkily huff 'Hmm. Fat day', the mirror will vocally assess your reflection with gems such as 'That colour is so you. Have you lost weight?' While if you're feeling pretty good about yourself, the mirror will hold back with a simple 'Good to go, gorgeous'. Well, one doesn't want to get complacent.

So don't hold back, trust-fund socialites and mega-celebs, put some creative thought into it and go all out with those closets of joy. If only to provide us normal-wardrobed ladies with something to really drool over. When you've enough cash in the bank to buy Chanel on a daily basis and probably wear Cartier's finest to the gym, you'd be letting us down if you didn't, to be quite honest.

Just how much would you love your husband if he had this designed for you? Lucky, lucky Carrie...