The best professional training courses in Image Consultancy and Personal Styling

Image, Fashion & Styling for Women

Complete 10-day Course

(Also available as 3 separate modules – see timetable)

 

Become a Personal Stylist, Shopper or Image Consultant

 

 

Complete skills for a new career
This NEW Complete 10-day Course provides you with all the essential skills and knowledge you need to start a new career as a professional Image Consultant, Personal Stylist or Personal Shopper.

After this intensive training, you will be able to offer your clients a full range of professional Image, Fashion and Stylist services – figure and colour defining, wardrobe management, and personal shopping.

The course carefully takes you through the three stages of working with your clients: emotional, physical and practical.

Emotional
How to ‘get into your client’s shoes’ to discover her true style identity, and what help she really needs from you.

Physical
How to select the clothing styles and colours that will make the most of your client’s individual figure and colouring.

Practical
How to help your client create her look with Styling Techniques, Wardrobe Management, and Personal Shopping.

This course offers you a unique training opportunity as it brings together the essential elements of two separate approaches – Image Consulting and Fashion Styling.
To give you proficiency in all topics, the training is designed and delivered by experts from both fields.

With this course you are able you to place your work in a fashion context straightaway without the need for further training. You will have the technical know-how of an Image Consultant, yet also be able to ‘think and work like a fashion-savvy stylist’. So no matter where they fall on the fashion spectrum, you will be able to give your clients assured personalised style and wardrobe advice.
Course content
The course is delivered in a small active group and combines slide presentations, demonstrations, tutorials, exercises, supervised practicals, assessments and feedback. You also have a shopping exercise at Westfield Shopping Centre in west London.

  • What can we really offer our clients
  • Setting clients’ needs and wants
  • Establishing individual style identity
  • What is fashion: what is style?
  • The history and relevance of fashion
  • Key fashion designers and icons
  • Referencing fashion
  • Client figure and colour defining
  • Creating optical illusions with garments
  • Choosing fabrics, cuts and details
  • Choosing jackets, trousers, skirts, tops and dresses
  • Accessorising
  • Colour psychology
  • Choosing a definite colour palette using your ColourKit©
  • Combining colours
  • Styling to create and recreate looks
  • Client consultation aides
  • Wardrobe planning and management
  • Personal shopping in practice
  • Short-term and long-term clients
  • Staying up to date


The Course Fee includes

  • Full illustrated training manual
  • Current fashion trends CD
  • Your own personalised aide memoire
  • Light refreshments
  • On-going support

 



Association of Stylists and Image Professionals