How to Be a Fashion Stylist

Video Transcript

"Hello, I'm Gabriela Garzon, I teach at Image and Etiquette Consulting in Miami, Florida. To be a fashion stylist is basically knowing trends, knowing about designers, knowing about what's really going on out there in order for you to help your clients to dress appropriately for every occasion that they need in their daily life. So to become a fashion stylist is either, well a fashion stylist can only be for hair and makeup and also can be for the wardrobe. Or it can be for one thing and or the other. So sometimes they do not combine, so you need to know what type of fashion stylist it is that you want to become. If it's going to be basically accessories, hair and makeup or if you really want to go ahead and do the whole wardrobe clothing stylist. So in order to become one you need to really read anything that has to do with trends, fashion trends. You need to do a lot of research and you of course need to know about business. You need to buy books or just go ahead and go to a community college that they have like little classes for four hours, six hours that will teach you about how to set up a business or they also give you classes about how to set up a business in fashion, not necessarily a stylist but they do like merchandise, they do marketing, and also how to deal with clients in the fashion industry. So if you take this type of classes you don't necessarily are going to need a certificate or a degree. Of course if you have one it's going to be much better and it will give you more chances and opportunities to actually have a job as a fashion stylist. But in order to become one you just need to do a lot of research and keep up with the fashion trends."