How to become a personal stylist and personal shopper
Women's Fashion Styling Training Course
Our years of skills and experience has now been formally translated into a proven and established training course on how to become a personal fashion stylist. This course, will give you all the skills and knowledge you need to become a personal fashion stylist or personal shopper in an express 3-day training course, delivered by our sister business the Australian Insitute Of Styling.
The market leader in training for fashion stylists
We pioneered and developed this training several years ago and have successfully trained countless students, who have gone on to establish thriving businesses as fashion stylists. With new trainers, stylists and companies now all offering their own versions of this training course, we are proud of the fact that we were the first and foremost to create and develop fashion styling training for the industry. It's this experience that has seen so many of our students become successful stylists in their own right, and is why we are the market leaders in this area.
With a focus on women's clothing and accessories styling, this course is suitable for anyone of any age:
With some retail or fashion experience
No experience or background in fashion at all
Looking at fashion styling as a part-time or full-time career
Wanting to add to your existing skills in the fashion or retail industry
What will you learn?
From the basics of styling from body shape to colours, step-by-step processes on how to structure and conduct your consultations, how to set up your business, PLUS how to FIND and gain clients, you will learn all this and more!
We'll offer you unlimited mentoring support after the course, so you will never be alone on this journey, with our head stylist Wendy there for you every step of the way even after the course, in unlimited access to her via phone, email or over coffee!
Just some of the topics covered include:
- Identifying and dressing different female body shapes including plus size clients
- Analysing the female body proportion
- Selecting the right styles and cuts for each body shape
- Line and design principles (elements of design)
- Fabrics, their effect and care
- Colour & colour techniques in styling
- How to conduct a wardrobe analysis and consultation
- How to conduct a personal fashion styling shopping trip
- Using accessories effectively
- Shoes & their impact to style
- How to create a mix-and-match and layered wardrobe
- Learn to style a client from top to toe
- Setting up, structuring and registering a business
- Creating a website
- Marketing & promotion - how to find your first clients and promote your business, including how to maximise social media
- Working for a styling agency/ retailer as a stylist
- Understanding the retailer relationship
- Customer service in a styling business
- The pitfalls of personal styling – how to identify them and manage through them
Key features
- 3-day course – get on your way to living your dream job, sooner!
- A proven and established program - we have successfully delivered this course to multiple students over the years
- Train from the industry pioneer and market leader, with training based on our real-life skills gained from over 7 years in this industry
- Unlimited mentoring & support with Wendy your trainer after the course - this one-on-one mentoring is invaluable and unlimited. Whether via phone, email or in person, this individual, personal follow up & attention is available whenever you need it and could be the difference to ensuring your success.
- A powerful combination of 25% classroom theoretical study + 75% practical, hands-on experience in stores
- NOT a correspondence course – nothing beats face to face training.
- Focused on clothing and accessories for the female market
- Small class sizes to ensure individual attention
- Training Course manual & notes provided for you to keep
- Certificate Of Completion will be awarded to all participants to certify that you have been trained in this course
- Payment plans available
All delivered by an experienced trainer who was the FIRST to develop these courses for the Australian market.
Testimonials
We have full confidence in our course, so if you'd like to speak to one of our past students, just let us know! In the meantime please visit our Successful Students page to view some of the many thank you notes we receive.
"I left the training feeling completely confident that I could conduct a paid styling session. I am so appreciative of your willingness to share your knowledge and skills, as well as the comfortable, supportive environment you set for the training. The weekend far exceeded my expectations, and I would give it my highest recommendation to anyone considering styling as a career – thank you for turning me into a stylist!" Elissa.
With so many people trying to enter the world of fashion styling, those with proper training and knowledge will be the ones who stand out and stay successful over the long term.
Our well-established, proven training methods and course content , is delivered through a powerful combination of BOTH theoretical and practical hands on training, with a heavy emphasis on practising your skills in real stores with real people. This is supported by all the mentoring you need to bounce off ideas, as well as to discuss the best solutions and approach to setting up your business.
Correspondence courses may be cheap and easy, but cannot prepare you for what to expect with a real-life client, and our courses are proven and well established - with multiple students successfully taking this course and setting up real businesses and new careers for themselves.
We give you all of our insider information and skills learnt over the years to sucessfully set up and market your business – so it becomes a real, profit-making income for you.
And we don’t leave you to fend for yourself after the course as we’ll be there for all the post-course advice and mentoring you need until you receive your first paying client.
Image consultancy vs personal styling
It is important to recognise the difference between image consultants and personal stylists. This course is designed to train you in the more contemporary profession of how to become a personal fashion stylist, not an image consultant.
Image consultants provide services that includes styling and shopping, but may also offer advice on a broad range of issues including behaviour and communication, such as social and business etiquette, voice projection, body language, public speaking and communication skills, whereas a personal stylist focuses on fashion.
Dates & details
SYDNEY: Friday 1 June - Sunday 3 June 2012 (LIMITED places available)
MELBOURNE: Friday 15 June - Sunday 17 June 2012 (LAST place available)
MELBOURNE: Friday 13 July - Sunday 15 July 2012 (places available)
SYDNEY: Friday 27 July – Sunday 29 July 2012 (places available)
MELBOURNE: Friday 17 August - 19 August 2012 (places available)
BRISBANE: Friday 31 August - Sunday 2 September 2012 (places available)
SYDNEY: Friday 14 September - Sunday 16 September 2012 (places available)
Please contact us for pricing and availability.
Our July 2011 course participants at the end of their practical training day!
Hear from some of our former students below!
