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What does a Fashion Stylist do?

Fashion stylist, also known as wardrobe stylists or celebrity stylists, are responsible for crafting and coordinating garments and accessories to create outfits for a client.

A fashion stylist always needs to be ahead of the up-coming trends in fashion; the fashion-styling career is extremely involved in fashion trends and fashion forecasting for each season. The daily work of a fashion stylist can be extremely fast-paced and exciting. Throughout the course of a fashion stylist’s day, they may attend many meetings prior to a styling assignment, travel to fashion shows, and showrooms.

There are different types of fashion stylist:

  1. A commercial fashion stylist will select garments and accessories, models, makeup stylists, and hair stylists, to coordinate with the aesthetic of the commercial shoot.
  2. A television fashion stylist will coordinate outfits and accessories for actors, news anchors, live broadcasts, and television cast members.
  3. Corporate fashion stylist may consult with companies on company uniforms and coordinate outfits for executives.
  4. Personal fashion stylist may work individually with clients to create outfits with existing clothing or purchase new garments and accessories for a client.
  5. Catalog fashion stylist will work with businesses or designers in order to develop product catalogs with the appropriately styled merchandise.
  6. Fashion stylist may work within merchandise styling, which involves prop and set styling, retail fashion styling, photo styling, and display styling for print advertisements, retail stores, or photo shoots. Fashion stylists must have a strong sense of style, color, texture, and creativity.

Hazards of being a fashion stylist:

  • Meeting Client's Expectation: Clients hire stylists because they trust them to understand the current fashion trends, identify where the trends are moving and be able to translate fashion in such a way that it looks good on the client. A stylist's reputation is built on how well she can dress her clients and build up a wardrobe that reflects a current look.
  • Going over Budget: Whether a stylist works for a fashion magazine, retail outlet or a private client, the stylist is given a budget to work with for each project. Regardless of what the budget is, the stylist must be able to stay within its confines when shopping.
  • Job Security: Most fashion stylists are freelancers. A stylist must build a book of clients that she works with on a regular basis, from everyday professionals to celebrity and print clients, such as magazines. Some stylists can move into full-time jobs for fashion houses, magazines and in television or film where the stylist has some job security, at least for the duration of her contract.
  • Organization: Whether a stylist works freelance, builds her own company or works for a media outlet, she must maintain organization. Stylists are often juggling more than one client at the time. To keep all the information needed for each client, purchases, budgets, measurements and personal information in a usable format, the stylist has to develop a method of organization.