What skills do I need to be a fashion stylist?

What skills do I need to be a fashion stylist?

Wendy Elsmore (Fashion Expert) gives expert video advice on: What skills do I need to be a fashion stylist?; How do I take a course in fashion and style?; What advice would you give to an aspiring fashion stylist? and more...

Number one, you've got to really love working hard to be a fashion stylist. And you have GOT to be determined to be a fashion stylist. Innately, I think as a fashion stylist you need a passion for fashion, for texture, for colour, and a real feel for fashion as well, which you CAN learn through training, but I think it innately has to be there in a fashion stylist. I think it can be fine-tuned by attending courses. But that determination to get up and go and also, in the early days as a fashion stylist, to take "No" as meaning maybe "Not now" and "I'm going to come back and see you again later." So a bit of a thick skin is useful in a fashion stylist and to have a sense of humour as well, because that keeps you going as a fashion stylist.