Avidere's renowned Wardrobe Stylist Education Program uniquely combines the technical elements and principles of fashion design with the practical applications of helping women create styles that complement their shape, personal style, and lifestyle.  The Avidere Wardrobe Stylist Education program is the most complete on the market. In fact, the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York uses the industry leading textbook Fabulous Fit to teach fashion designers how to design and construct garments for the eight body types.  Fabulous Fit was published by Fairchild and authored by Avidere's very own Education Developer, Judith Rasband.  Our education program is sure to give you the technical skills needed to immediately jump start a career in fashion at the fractions of the cost and time of other education institutions.

Wardrobe Styling Training Overview

During our six day accelerate training program you will learn how to use the elements and principles of fashion design to create attractive images for your clients, interpret fashion trends and display fashion merchandise. You'll know how to provide eight fashion styling services for di erent markets, dress 8 gure types and 50 gure variations, conduct wardrobe evaluations, clothing tting analysis, wardrobe style sessions, create client style portfolios, understand styling principles for mixing color, texture and patterns, provide four shopping services and run your own business. Training includes in part:

Elements & Principles of Design

  • Line types, direction & effect
  • Clothing shapes, forms, illusions
  • Color hue, value & intensity
  • Fabric, textures, weave, weight
  • Pattern types, scales, & illusions
  • Balance, scale & proportions
  • Harmony, rhythm, and unity
  • Dominant & subordinate design
  • Yin & yang design style scale
  • Fashion cycle & retail influences
  • Clothing design & function

Fashion Styling Skills

  • Dressing 8 figure types
  • Dressing 50+ figure variations
  • Styling petite, tall & full-figures
  • Select jewelry by face shape, bone size
  • Define client colors and styles
  • Mixing colors, textures, patterns
  • Styling with accessories
  • Focal point styling techniques
  • Building wardrobe capsules
  • Creating style portfolios
  • Clothing fit and alterations

*We provide 70% hands-on experience for maximum learning retention. Tuition includes instruction, student kit stylist tools, 14 style workbooks, meals, certification exam, post-stylist graduate work and coaching.