Personal Styling Short Course
Course description
Course overview
This course will expand your knowledge of personal styling in the fashion industry. Through a series of engaging lectures, you will learn about client consultation, wardrobe analysis and colour theory to advance your skills and confidence in this area.
The course will cover all the factors that should be considered when advising others on how to dress, from colours and patterns to shape and fit. You will learn how to identify and assess bodylines, taking into account scale and proportion to make the best styling choices for different body shapes.
We will also explore the concept of trends in the fashion industry and discuss how to identify them and what kind of impact they can have on the consultation process. Students will develop practical skills that will be useful for any career or business in the fashion industry and will be able to apply the techniques learnt to many different creative projects. After completing this course you may be interested in taking our Personal Styling Intermediate Short Course.
This course is available both on campus or online.
Who this course is for
This course is suitable for beginners looking to learn about the role of personal styling in the fashion industry.
Key information
Topics covered
- The role of a Personal Stylist
- Colour Theory - Identifying Colour Qualities
- Choosing Colours for Clients - How to Analyse Colour Patterns and work with Contrast levels
- How to work with Fashion Colours
- Bodyline - Assessing, Analysing and Understanding Bodyline - Scale, Proportion and Line
- Styling Choices for Bodylines - Fabric, Cut and details
- Proportional Dressing
- Styling Tricks
- Who wears What and Why - Garment Identification and the Optical Illusion of clothes
- Understanding Fit
- Identifying and working with Trends
- Practical Application of the skills learnt above - Style a Model
- Client Types and Expectations
- Styling Services you can offer - Wardrobe Workouts, Styling Sessions and Personal Shopping
- Marketing and Networking
Learning outcomes
- Develop a range of techniques and skills for successfully styling a diversity of clients
- Understand how to work with different client briefs and get practical experience with a real client
- Gain confidence in dealing with real client issues and best practices for different client profiles
- Grasp business concepts and how to promote and attract the right clients
- Digital badge and certificate of attendance.
Materials
On Campus
- Notepad and pen
- Pencils
- Laptop with Microsoft Powerpoint or Keynote installed
- PicCollage or equivalent app downloaded onto a smart phone or tablet - to create collage
Online
If you are taking this course online, please see our Guide to taking online short courses
Tutor
Penny Bennett
Penny is a Personal Stylist and Image Professional who advises clients, from businessmen to busy mums, how to build an effortless wardrobe, make the best of their image and gain confidence in their style. Penny has been described by Grazia magazine as having a 'faultless eye' and been featured in the Telegraph, FT Specialist and on Talk Radio.
Penny teaches Personal Styling at London College of Fashion and has worked with a broad range of organisations to enhance the career development of their staff to help them reach their full potential. Penny has delivered image training programmes to some of the UK's top high street brands. Her list of clients includes The Leading Hotels of the World, The London Business School, Investec, Vanish, LHH Penna, River Island and Topshop.
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