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How To Create a Client Styling Mood Board

One of the most critical aspects of the personal styling process is presenting an inspiration board or mood board to the client before shopping on their behalf. Shopping without a visual plan (you both agree on) is a recipe for disaster at the fitting. So how do you create this visual plan? It’s simple really,…

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Career Advice For Aspiring Fashion Professionals

In addition to working as a personal stylist here in Los Angeles, I also co-own the styling school, School of Style. With that being said, in addition to dishing out styling advice, I also serve up plenty of career advice. So I started a playlist on my YouTube channel that is all about career advice…

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Recommended Reading for Aspiring Stylists

Q- I wanted to know what are some great books to read when it comes to the fashion business and fashion styling. A- Great question and since I buy pretty much every single fashion book that hits the shelves, I’ve got a few recommendations for you.image via smallshopstudio.com Secrets of Stylists: An Insider’s Guide to…

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How to Become a Stylist

I can’t tell you how many people ask me “how do I become a stylist?”. There is a reason my biz partner and I have a school that specializes in becoming a stylist – so many people want this career! My short answer is come to my school but since I am feeling generous, my…

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Teacher, Teacher! Getting my Mentor On in NYC

If you told me 4 years ago that I would be a teacher/mentor to the next generation of stylists I would have literally laughed in your face.  Heck, I probably would have giggled at the notion of being a stylist for a living. It had always a dream but for it become a reality (and…

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School of Style is Coming to Chicago

Exciting news alert! In 2013 Luke Storey and I will be taking our show on the road – the show being School of Style, of course. The School of Style Pop-Up Class Series kicks off in Chicago on June 8-9th at Public Hotel. We will be teaching Class 1- The Business. So if you’ve always…

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How I Broke into the Fashion Industry

I get a ton of emails asking me how I got my start as a stylist/ fashion expert. There is a common misconception that I got where I am today overnight. That it was just dumb luck, that I happened to know the right people, or that I was just at the right place at…

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Advice on Getting an Education in Fashion

Q- I had e-mailed you awhile back about the School Of Style and since then I’ve been following you on twitter as well as following your blog. I thought you had a lot of great tips and good advice for those who are just getting started in a styling career. I wanted to ask your…

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Finding Assistant Stylist Work in NYC

Image credit- Trend Land Q- I am an up and coming fashion stylist and I have a question for you. As I am sure you know in this fashion world the grind is 24/7. I have been doing a lot to try and get myself out there as well as try to get as much…

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Adventures in Styling: My Car Is So Rad

For those of you who follow me on Twitter, you found out yesterday that I booked a key stylist gig! If you aren’t down with the stylist lingo … key stylists means I am the main stylist and not the assistant 🙂 Super exciting news for me. Anyways, you are probably wondering why I have…

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