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It is important to have an expert who can advise and provide specific suggestions to create a style that suits the individual and circumstances so that the outfit can best fulfill its purpose.
These advisors are called stylists, however, this term is often used in the fashion industry or related to celebrities. So do you want to learn more about what a stylist is? Let’s follow this article about stylists below from May Hop Phat!
What is a Stylist?
A stylist is a style creator. They are responsible for producing fashion styles for their clients. And clients in this case are mainly singers, actors, MCs, etc. who are working in the showbiz field.
Appearance and image are important factors contributing to success. Stylists are the people who directly advise and choose clothes, hairstyles, and cosmetics for their clients each time they appear before the public.
Stylists breathe life into outfits by combining and mixing them to create excellent fashion styles, as well as helping to transform those styles from the catwalk closer to everyday life.
What Should You Study to Become a Stylist?
There are many people who love and are passionate about the stylist profession wondering if there is formal stylist training in Vietnam? And if so, what major should you study or what should a stylist study?
Currently, the stylist profession is not professionally and formally trained at universities and colleges in our country. However, don’t worry too much because you can still go in the direction of registering to study majors in fashion design or graphics to grasp basic knowledge about lines and blocks in fashion, color coordination, and cultivate aesthetic thinking.
Only when you master the basic rules in fashion can you have enough foundation and ability to coordinate, arrange layout images, etc. in the most reasonable and eye-catching way.
Moreover, there are stylists who do not pursue formal degrees and instead become stylists due to strong creative desire, or in other words, because they have innate aesthetic qualities.
What is the Job of a Stylist?
Stylists are style creators. Their workload is very large, and extremely diverse and detailed. Each stylist job will have its own requirements and characteristics.
For example, commercial stylists often collaborate with television stations, fashion brand stylists will be fashion consultants for brands, fashion/editorial stylists often work for magazines, and personal stylists have famous people as clients.
Commercial Stylist
The typical workplace of commercial stylists is usually television stations, reality shows, film companies, etc. They often work with PR agency companies (TVC, Key visuals, promoting plans, etc.) and have high responsibility to exchange for very high and stable salaries. Those who can become commercial stylists are experienced and reputable style creators.
Fashion Brand Stylist
Fashion brand stylist means brand consultant. They do work related to image production, creating models for KOLs or influencers collaborating with brands. At the same time, they are also responsible for work related to image production, lookbooks, etc.
Fashion/Editorial Stylist
Fashion/editorial stylists are people who work for editorial offices and fashion magazines. They will come up with ideas for outfits for models and ideas for fashion publications. They will work directly with art directors and creative directors.
Personal Stylist
Everyone is familiar with the term “personal stylist.” They are responsible for molding and developing unique fashion styles for clients.
Their clients will be celebrities such as singers, actors, MCs, etc., as well as wealthy businesspeople. They do not have specific working hours and will be paid based on customer satisfaction.
Whether working as a personal stylist or for organizations, professional knowledge is needed. Always cultivate and enhance in-depth knowledge, while building relationships in the fashion and entertainment industries. In particular, to become a personal stylist, you must have famous, impressive works that create resonance in the industry.
In addition, when you have become an experienced stylist, you can even become a lecturer, imparting your knowledge and experience to young people and newcomers to the profession.
Stylist Career Opportunities
The development speed of Vietnam’s entertainment field is very fast and wide. It is impossible to list all the singers, MCs, actors, and models who have appeared at events, photo shoots, magazines, etc. All need stylist support.
Thanks to that, there are many career prospects in this field. The salary is quite generous, not less than 10 million per month, based on each individual’s capacity and customer satisfaction.
Precisely because of the opportunity to meet and work with famous people, as well as the generous salary, the stylist profession today is considered a “hot” profession that many people are interested in, especially young people.
However, having said that, any job, including the styling profession, has its own advantages and difficulties. Style creators must have many talents to keenly understand current trends while collecting information about their customer base.
Not only that, style creators must also be extremely creative because in addition to keeping up with trends, they must also create pioneering trends.
Each style creator must withstand high work pressure because they will bear most of the responsibility if the outfit coordination is unsuccessful. Moreover, you need to note that stylist is a job with a high and fast elimination rate if you do not have creativity and high aesthetic sense.
What Should You Do to Become a Stylist?
A stylist must first have knowledge about fashion and must regularly update the latest fashion trends in the world.
However, to become a stylist, you cannot lack building relationships and proactively creating opportunities for yourself to shine.
Accumulate Knowledge
Entering the stylist job requires minimum basic knowledge. Studying fashion or developing a fashion style (Fashion Stylist) is the best approach to get basic professional knowledge about fashion.
Moreover, absorbing and researching professional knowledge about fashion from many different sources is an excellent method to expand understanding and improve your fashion knowledge.
Regularly Update Fashion Trends
As a professional style creator, you not only have to keep up with current fashion trends but also know how to anticipate upcoming trends in the future. For you, if you are just starting as a style creator, you will need to know how to keep up with current fashion trends by using many information media such as social networks, the internet, TV, radio, etc.
Moreover, regularly going out to practice studying street fashion style is an excellent technique to keep up with fashion trends today.
Wide Relationships
Stylist is a profession that allows you to interact with powerful celebrities. However, having the opportunity to interact and work with them is still a big obstacle for young people first entering the industry. Therefore, one of the most important things to do is try to expand relationships.
Proactively Create Opportunities for Yourself
Obviously, no one will naturally invite you to work or give you work opportunities. You must be the one to create that opportunity. Try to apply or contact editorial offices or companies looking for interns.
Join organizations or clubs to find more job opportunities. Participate in fashion competitions if you want to elevate your value. You can freely express your ability and uniqueness here, and you will be known by many people.
Concepts Related to Stylist
Besides the term stylist, we also have other concepts such as hair stylist, food stylist, fashion stylist, etc.
What is a Hair Stylist?
Hair stylists are hair style creators (hair: hair, stylist: style creator – hair stylist: hair style creator). They advise celebrities when they appear before the public. Hair stylists create new hairstyles and have an impact on fashion trends.
This is also a profession with great money-making potential. Because the demand for beauty is increasing, the hair styling profession is becoming more and more popular and known, a promising career path for young people.
What is a Fashion Stylist?
Fashion stylist – fashion style creator is the person who creates and selects clothes and accessories for clients for different events. Fashion stylists regularly collaborate with models and celebrities at major events and programs.
A fashion stylist must understand fashion and be at the forefront of current fashion trends. Although it is not necessary, it will be quite beneficial if the fashion stylist understands how to design and produce their own outfits.
What is a Stylist in Kpop?
Stylists in Kpop must take care of idols down to the smallest details. Stylists can advise celebrities on what to wear, how to dress effectively, and how to shine before crowds.
Not only that, stylists can intervene in steps such as cosmetics, hair styling, accessory selection, etc. to create images suitable for idols.
To achieve this, of course, the stylist must have high aesthetic taste as well as fashion capacity, excellent trend catching while maintaining uniqueness and suitability with the idol’s image.
The stylist profession has a very high elimination rate in the Korean entertainment business, and even small mistakes can bring great risks.
The most common problem for teenage idols, especially female idols, is that their outfits are too sexy, exposing sensitive body parts, or makeup not matching the outfit, etc. And fans immediately drag stylists out to criticize. Even many people have to resign because they cannot withstand the pressure.
What is a Stylist Assistant?
Stylist assistants are actually the right hands of professional stylists. This is a profession chosen by many young people passionate about fashion when first entering the profession. Thanks to that, they gain more experience, build relationships, and have the ability to develop in the business.
The more famous the style creator, the bigger the task, and style creators often recruit some young individuals willing to face all problems and requirements to support them in their work.
What is a Food Stylist?
Food stylists are style creators who specialize in “applied makeup” for dishes.
They are in charge of decorating, presenting, and styling food to match images in menus, cooking books, advertisements, etc. to create impressions on diners.
To create a truly beautiful and impressive product, professional food stylists must have the ability to collaborate with many other departments such as advertising companies, photographers, producers, etc. to grasp customer tastes and build uniqueness, beauty, and attractive style for dishes.
Stylist or style creator is a profession that requires creativity, aesthetic sense, and keeping up with current fashion trends. Although currently in our country there is no professional training facility for style creators, young people with strong desire can pursue the ambition to become style creators through short-term courses.