Think about every style method you have tried. Capsule wardrobe. Color season. Body shape rules.
Notice they all begin in the closet.
But the closet is step four. Before it come identity, body, and style essence. Skip those and you are organizing clothes around a self you have not defined yet.
That is why the systems feel hollow. You do all the work and still do not quite recognize the woman in the mirror.
Start at step one and the closet almost solves itself.