Fashion Styling

As the media industry continues to grow, so does industry’s expectations of the professional make-up artist.

It has been compulsory for many years now that 50% of make-up artist’s skills must include hairstyling. Make-up artists who do not do hairstyling simply don’t get work, as clients do not have the budgets available to hire 2 separate professionals. Demands are still changing, particularly in areas such as fashion and advertising.

Today’s make-up artist is now not only expected to be a professional hair stylist but also in many situations, a fashion stylist. Many make-up/hairstylists now offer fashion styling as an additional skill, meaning that they can offer the services of 3 professionals in one. These make-up artists are attractive to clients who are constantly trying to reduce budgets. However, this means that those of us who do not do fashion styling will lose work.

One of the projects you will do whilst on your course is designed to replicate the full process of what is required from you on an actual job. You will be given a brief, asked to produce ‘mood boards’ to display to the client (the School), given your model’s sizes, shop for the full outfit, have a fitting with your model and visit a TV & film prop hire warehouse to choose props and set items from.

Students attending the 7 and 16 week courses will then be taken on location to a real photographic studio, with a set, purpose built and dressed for their themed day. Here they will dress their models and do suitable hair and make-up to the brief given. This will happen on the first Monday of the following portfolio week.

Students attending the Fashion Styling course only can access the theme day shoot for a small fee.

Course Content

Measures:

• Ladies, men’s and children’s measures
• Measuring a model or actor
• Measuring clothing
• Taking measures from an Agent

Clothing Care:

• Storing and hanging
• Stains
• Shoes
• Alterations and repairs
• Washing and pressing

Kit

Briefs:

• Briefs for different media
• Receiving a brief
• Brief examples and how to approach a brief
• Presenting your ideas to a client or director

Buying:

• Buying to a budget
• Petite, plus size, tall ranges
• Your consumer rights
• Buying, returning, hiring, borrowing
• Choosing the appropriate colours, styles and patterns
• Presenting the clothing to the client or director
• Fitting to the model or actor

Accessories

Fashion Through The Decades

Mood Boards And Fashion Illustration

Buying And Designing Individual And Group Projects:

• Working to a brief
• Producing a mood board
• Buying
• Fitting to a model/ actor
• Present to the group
• Return