Learn to style for advertisements, magazines and portfolios and take your first steps into one of fashion communication's most dynamic and rewarding careers. With hands-on practical advice on working as part of a team, developing a visual vocabulary and managing a shoot, you'll be encouraged to experiment and develop your own original creative concepts.
This revised edition includes a new chapter on the future of the industry, exploring how the role is changing and the stylist's position as an entrepreneur. There are also new interviews with professional stylists and 120 new images to demonstrate each technique.
Jacqueline McAssey is Senior Lecturer BA (Hons) Fashion (Communication) at Liverpool John Moores University, UK.
Sophie Benson is an Associate Lecturer on the Fashion Communication degree course at Liverpool John Moores University, UK. She previously worked as a freelance stylist and is now a freelance journalist covering sustainable fashion for publications including The Guardian, Dazed and AnOther.
Clare Buckley is Course Leader BA (Hons) Fashion Styling and Production. She is also an established fashion stylist and creative director and has worked with the language of clothes, objects and materials within the fashion industry for over ten years as a fashion editor and stylist for publications including Russh, Wallpaper* and the Guardian: Weekend magazine In both womenswear and menswear, alongside advertising, music, celebrity and film work.