How To Get Hold Of The Clothes And Accessories As A Fashion Stylist

How do you get hold of the clothes and accessories?

It takes quite a while to build up relationships so that you are allowed to borrow clothes and that's why you need to start early on at making sure that you get on the really good side of all the PRs; public relationship departments or offices that look after and represent different brands of clothing, from top shop, right up to Alexander McQueen. What they will let you do is borrow press samples for different jobs, say for magazine shoots; you name it, depending on whether they like your project that you're involved in and they like you as well. If you're working to an extremely tight deadline and you need to borrow pieces off the shop floor then and there; then if you are very, very lucky, and you have built those relationships and looked after those people, then you can go straight in store and take pieces then and there. However, remember that as a fashion stylist, it is your responsibility to look after the people who look after you. If you don't return clothes on time or you return them damaged, those people won't work with you again, and you really need them to help you, so you can't afford not to look after them. I am always amazed at the number of fashion stylists that do not take care of the clothes they have borrowed.