Fashion Styling Intensive Short Course
Course description
Course overview
If you already have done an introductory short course in fashion styling or if you have had some basic previous experience, this is the right course to consolidate and enhance your skills. It is an intensive 2-week course covering editorial, commercial styling, concept development, art direction, and industry insights.
You will explore and practice some of the emerging roles that professional stylists play within the fashion industry today. And you will get the opportunity to work with a professional photographer and fashion model to realise your ideas.
Who this course is for
- People working in the fashion industry looking to get a better knowledge of styling trends and current professional practice
- Fashion graduates looking to take the first steps towards building a career in styling
- Students who have already completed our beginners' course and want to take their skills to the next level
Key information
Topics covered
Through a series of seminars and workshops, the tutor will share their first-hand experience of the industry. Talks and discussions will provide you with an insight on current developments such as:
- Key stylists and photographers
- Trend forecasting and street style
- The fashion magazine market
- The roles of a fashion editor and art directors
- Developing a concept through research and development
- Industry engagement
- Styling workshops (denim, and the white shirt)
- Photoshoots
- Teamwork
- Project work
Working in small creative teams, students will produce a fashion story pitched at a magazine of their choice. The course culminates with a group photo shoot with a professional creative team at the end of the second week. At the end students, will then work with an Industry Professional Art Director. Each group will be asked to present their final images as an Editorial Publication fashion story layout.
Learning outcomes
- Explore and practice some of the merging roles that professional stylists play within the fashion industry today
- Experience working with a professional photographer and fashion model to realise your ideas
- Digital badge and certificate of attendance
Materials
- Digital camera and SD card
- Laptop (This is not essential but it's useful to show photos you have taken and present finished work)
- Clothing and accessories that you may want to use when under-taking styling workshops, and also producing a fashion story for editorial
During the course, you may want to visit some markets / shops to source things for the photoshoot and workshops, and any galleries or exhibitions to further your inspiration - so please budget for a travel card.
Tutor
Siobhan Lyons
Siobhan Lyons is the Art, Culture and Media Director at The September Issues Magazine which is a magazine founded and curated by women, that celebrates the diversity and power of global feminism.
She has 15 years industry experience working as a freelance Fashion Stylist. She has shot for the following publications: Sunday Times Style, ELLE, i-D, Twin, Hunger, Sleek, Alvar, Glass, Kinking, Boys, by Girls, Wylde, Madame Figaro Japan, Lula, Wonderland and Nylon. She began her journey into the Fashion Industry by assisting at Another Magazine, Jacob K, TimeWalker and Kate Phelan
She was previously Senior Womenswear and Menswear Stylist at Urban Outfitters Europe and now teaches at the following universities:
Sheffield Hallam, Middlesex, London College of Fashion, Conde Nast College of Fashion + Design, Westminster, Leeds Arts University, Salford, Oxford + Cambridge, Preston and Istituto Marangoni.
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