
Explore fashion styling across print, image consulting, and entertainment industry, and learn to meet client briefs through teamwork, creativity, and trends research shaping designers, brands, and collections.
Learn fashion and personal styling by mastering body flattering techniques, color use, looking great in front of the camera, efficient clothing sourcing, trend analysis, budgeting, and building a styling reputation.
Learn to curate head-to-toe looks, manage PR wardrobe requests, and prepare test shoots with cheat sheets, while mastering continuity and image management for fashion styling.
Explore personal style, learn body shapes, and see how fashion evolves through the decades, revealing how shopping and experimentation shape your inherent, unique look.
Identify body shapes such as inverted triangle, hourglass, and rectangle, balance proportions with wrap dresses and fuller skirts, and shop wisely using core pieces and wardrobe essentials.
Build your styling business by developing a strong brand and a compelling portfolio. Showcase your work through an optimized website, social networking, and marketing tools to attract and convert clients.
Explore the world of color, its perception, the color wheel, and how additive and subtractive mixing yield primary, secondary, and tertiary hues plus neutrals like white, grey, and black.
Explore bold color theory in fashion styling through primary, secondary, and tertiary palettes, and learn versatile schemes like complementary, split complementary, triad, and analogous to craft vivid, harmonious looks.
Explore how color palettes convey mood and season, guiding consumer interest alongside silhouette and concept. Learn core color terms—hue, value, saturation, temperature—and how Kandinsky, Klee, and Albers shaped color theory.
Explores how art color movements inform fashion styling, from impressionism's analog palettes to expressionism's bright contrasts and cubism's muted tones, with mustard yellow and pale blues.
Explore how to assemble harmonious fashion palettes using complementary colors, monochromatic schemes, and pastel tones, with varied textures and fabrics from 2017 collections.
Explore analogous color palettes and the rich, sensual palettes from Haider Ackermann, while using Adobe cooler to craft complementary palettes and balance black, white, and Holi-inspired hues.
Explore how warm and cool tones guide fashion palettes, using vein color as a clue, and see examples from Pat McGrath, John Galliano, and editorials in Vogue and Elle.
Explore color therapy in fashion as color forecasting becomes difficult amid social media influence, with Pantone as the universal reference guiding designers through seasonal trends and online shoppers.
Explore vibrant and muted color palettes across spring/summer 2017 and autumn/winter 2016, highlighting royal blue, nude pink, metallics, new green, textures, and shine in contemporary fashion.
Explore neutrals like black, white, cream, camel, and a 2015-2017 shift to a fresh neutral palette. See how athleisure evolves with camouflage-inspired floral prints in Adidas collaborations.
Discover how to build a styling career from test shoots to client work, celebrities and editorial projects, and personalized wardrobe planning, including closet edits and mood boards.
This course looks at the contemporary fashion image, the current fashion image and the day-to-day working life of a fashion stylist.
Students will learn about the role of fashion stylist.
Students will also learn about the different types of contemporary fashion image, key industry creative. Students will learn about the importance of Personal styling i.e. presenting yourself and the key skills required to be a personal stylist.
Students will learn about the style by the decade. Students learn about the celebrities’ style transformation over the period of time.
Course Modules
This course covers 4 modules of study and research, including how to get the right style for the right person, building different looks and much more. We also cover what to expect in terms of being on the job.
Module 1: Fashion Styling - Introduction to Fashion Styling, Fashion Stylist Specialties, Skills required for Fashion Styling, History of Styling, Fashion Styling Basics, Becoming a Fashion Stylist, Skills and Talents, Styling for Print, Preparing and Performing Test, Styling for Entertainment, Image management, Understanding Body Shapes, Understanding Personal Style, On the job, Portfolio Building, Branding
Module 2: Personal Styling - What is Personal Style?, Personal Style and New Image, Identifying your Look, Shopping and Maintaining your wardrobe, Wardrobe Essentials, Chic - the gate away & evening looks, Dress and style.
Module 3: Styling your Business - Business Basics for Stylists & Marketing your Business, Forms & Contracts, Getting Work /Freelance Stylist, Personal & Celebrity Clients.
Module 4: Colour Therapy by Laura Lightbody