Styling a Fashionable Career

Becoming a Fashion Stylist is grabbing the attention of young fashion enthusiasts. Styling as a career has been around for a long time but is just coming into the spotlight. Before opting for the career, you must know what fashion stylist's entitles. A fashion stylist also referred as Wardrobe Stylist, this line of profession is different from a Costume designer or even Image Consultant both is often confused with styling. For a Costume designer films are the main area of work. 

The traditional job description of a stylist includes selecting correct clothes for editorial features, prints, television, advertising campaigns, movies, music videos, award functions, music concerts or any other public appearance by celebrities. Helping a designer put together a fashion show is also included in their job description. Basically the stylist decides what and how to wear a particular outfit. They collaborate with the designers, hair and makeup artist and create the perfect look.

Fashion, is said to be a tough industry to break into, which is true, the industry demands the best. To be an established stylist a lot of hard work and perseverance is required.

An interest in fashion alone would not suffice; you need to be fashion sensitive. The next step is formal fashion education. Even though you may not sketch or draw designs and are not the one making the decision on which fabric to use, knowledge about the subject is an absolutely necessary. ‘Know the fabrics’ should become one of the many mantras. Fashion business is another critical area that a formal education will provide. 

One way to strength your foundations is to get as many internships as possible. Create styling portfolio showing your creativity and skills. Be up to date with the current trends, this is extremely important. Research and read a lot, this will help in predicting future trends. A stylist has to be flexible to the changing trends and versatile to keep up with the ever changing fashion.

Pearl Shah, Tanya Ghavri and Pernia Qureshi are some of the top fashion stylist of our times. They broke through this touch fashion business making fashion a stylist a hot new profession.

Fashion industry has developed immensely in the recent years leading into new streams and the courses at Whistling Woods Neeta Lulla School of fashion encompassing every aspect of fashion industry which in turn can help you venture into these new budding areas of fashion confidently.  

Career Options for Fashion Aspirants

The glamorous and lucrative line of Fashion Designing has beckoned a lot of young creative minds to join this career path. For a lot of people, Fashion Designing is normally associated with only the designing aspect, but the fashion industry is huge. Aspirants with artistic skills and an extensive fashion sense can make a successful career in fashion as one of the following.

Fashion Stylist

Fashion Styling is one of the career lines that have been there for a few decades but in recent years it has reached its full potential. The job description involves selecting correct clothes for editorial features, prints, television, advertising campaigns, movies, music videos, award functions, music concerts or any other public appearance by celebrities. A stylist collaborates with fashion designers, hair and makeup stylists to create the prefect look for the client. A stylist is the person who gets a celebrity on the best dressed list. Today retail stores and e-stores boast a personal stylist, who helps the buyers in picking the perfect outfit.

Fashion Merchandising

Fashion Merchandising is where fashion meets business. The designer has to launch his product and this is where a Fashion Merchandiser comes in. From producing a fashion line to final sale, a merchandiser is ‘involved in each step’. They ensure the supply of quality apparel to the customers in the most suitable retail setting, during the right season. They should be up to date with the current trends and also be able to forecast the future trends. There are sub-careers that fall under this category, such as retail management.

Fashion Illustration

A Fashion Illustrator is someone who creates sketches and drawing or any other work of art. When staring a new line, Fashion Designer depends on an illustrator to realize their ideas through their drawing and sketches. These drawings are used by designers to sell the line before prototypes are made. The illustrator can bring the designer’s idea to life. For this line of work, artistic skills have to be polished as the illustrator has to capture the essence of the designs and not just draw lines.

Belinda Bawa a Fashion Illustrator

Fashion Journalist

Meher Castelino a Fashion Journalist

For a person who loves to write and has a soft corner for fashion, Fashion Journalism is the perfect career option. Everyday there is some fashion related event or fashion show all over the world and writing about them is a requirement. Magazines and fashion websites and blogs have popped up with by-the-minute reports on the latest happenings in the world of fashion, so let’s just say that this is one career option will never go out of fashion. 

Pattern Making (left), Textile Designing (right)

The fashion industry is filled with diverse career paths like Pattern Making, Textile Designing, Production Management and new ones keep emerging from time to time that give immense opportunities to fashion aspirants. So keep your eyes and ears tuned and you could hit the giddy heights of success before you know it.