About The Professional Styling Course

The Professional Photo, Film, TV & Personal Stylist's Course has been designed to provide you with the professional skills required to succeed as a professional stylist.

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About The Professional Photo, Film, TV & Personal Stylist's Course

This fashion stylist course offers you a unique opportunity to develop a full or part-time career as a professional freelance stylist or to seek full-time work in all the industry areas where stylists are needed right now.

What you will learn

Firstly, it is important to understand that this course is not simply about the theory of professional styling. It's also about practical work in styling, meeting client's needs, marketing your services and being paid for your styling skills.

Hand in hand with your tutor

When you first enrol in The Professional Photo, Film, TV & Personal Stylist's Course, you are asked to complete our 'Tutor Information' questions. These provide the College and your tutor with valuable information about what you hope to achieve from the course.

Course Structure

The Professional Photo, Film, TV & Personal Stylists Course is delivered entirely online, traditionally known as distance learning. Coursework is delivered directly to your inbox, so you can work from home or anywhere in the world, with no face-to-face classes.

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How The Professional Photo, Film, TV & Personal Stylists Course is structured

The Professional Photo, Film, TV & Personal Stylists Course is comprised of 12 tutorials, delivered weekly or fortnightly, over 12 or 24 weeks. Over this time you will be tutored in all aspects of professional styling by a team of experienced professionals. This vast wealth of accumulated knowledge is provided to you together with the ways to apply this knowledge to the areas of styling that most interest you.

Online professional styling course award and recognition

Your Award and Recognition

The Professional Photo, Film, TV & Personal Stylist's Course offer graduates awards and recognition for successfully completing the course. See what you can achieve.

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Your Diploma

The Diploma of Professional Styling from the British College of Professional Styling is awarded to successful graduates of this course.

Your I.D. Pass

In addition, you can apply for your free British College of Professional Styling Identification Pass. This pass identifies you as a professional stylist and can prove to be an important tool in the course of your work.

What You Can Achieve

Styling is one of the few industries where there are more jobs for competent, versatile stylists than there are stylists to fill them.

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Open the door to a world of opportunity

There is an insatiable demand for professional freelance styling. 99% of advertising agencies, fashion and lifestyle magazines, TV shows, business and corporate identities and celebrities rely heavily on freelance stylists. Their work is used in catalogues, brochures, magazines, TV commercials, live concerts, TV programming, public relations and by people requiring a particular 'image'.

Experience work freedom

The Professional Photo, Film, TV & Personal Stylist's Course gives you the opportunity to be your own boss and to choose the styling work that most suits you. As a freelance stylist, you can also start small and build your reputation and income job by job.

Do You Have What It Takes?

What's required of you to become a professional stylist capable of handling any and all assignments?

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What's required on your part?

What's required of you to become a professional stylist capable of handling any and all assignments?

Where the jobs are

As you'll discover, the need for your styling skills doesn't end with newspapers and magazines, fashion companies, advertising agencies, film and television production companies, boutique shops, corporate clients and private individuals.

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The Professionals Behind The Course

The College has recruited only the best from an extraordinary range of talent to contribute to this stylist course. During your course you are hand in hand with many of the world's leading fashion makers and fashion leaders.

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Gain industry knowledge direct from the source

Only the most respected British and international stylists, advertising directors, film and television producers, art directors, photographers, fashion designers and editors, image consultants and personal shoppers have contributed to this course.

Course creator : Katharine Morris

This stylist course has been developed by Katharine Morris. Katharine has worked in all areas of professional styling. Commencing in wardrobe with a major television network, Katharine later worked as an assistant fashion director and then in photo styling and personal styling.

Course contributors

The British College of Styling has recruited many highly-regarded professional stylists, art directors and wardrobe stylists, who work in specialised areas of the fashion industry, to assist you throughout your course.

Course Accreditation

The British College of Professional Styling and The Professional Photo, Film, TV & Personal Stylist's Course are approved with the International Approval and Registration Centre (IARC).

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Accreditation from academic leaders

The British College of Professional Styling and The Professional Photo, Film, TV & Personal Stylist's Course are approved with the International Approval and Registration Centre (IARC). The College is also a proud member of The International Association of Private Career Colleges (IAPCC).

About the IARC

The IARC provides a system for distinguishing quality post-secondary education including vocational education, distance education, adult and continuing education.

About the IAPCC

The IAPCC is the global industry association for private post-secondary schools, institutes and colleges that provide career-specific educational programs.

Qualification required to work as a professional stylist

Styling is a self-regulated industry. This means that you need not have any professional qualification or memberships to official (or non-official) bodies or associations in order to work in the industry. Many professional stylists are self-taught or simply have a natural flair. You will find what you 'can do' is far more highly regarding in the industry than any qualification you can obtain.

Course Contents

The British College of Professional Styling has designed this online styling course with the beginner stylist in mind. This course is also ideal for those already in the industry, looking for a way to refresh their skills.

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Everything you need to know to succeed as a professional stylist

The British College of Professional Styling has recruited many respected stylists and to assist you throughout your online stylist course. Their skills and experience, covering all industry areas, will provide you with an intimate knowledge of how to to take on any brief.

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This introduction sets a solid foundation to the exciting and dynamic world of styling.

Course Fees

The British College of Professional Styling is an affordable and accessible way to pursue your writing career.

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How much does it cost?

The British College of Professional Styling is an affordable and accessible way to pursue your styling career. With flexible payment options and course guarantees, this course allows you to study with ease and peace of mind. Because the course is provided entirely online, you can study from anywhere in the world.

Online professional styling course guarantees

Your Guarantees

Our first guarantee is simple and straightforward. We do not accept students into this course unless we have a reasonable expectation that they are capable of completing their course.

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Study with confidence

Our first guarantee is simple and straightforward. We do not accept students into this course unless we have a reasonable expectation that they are capable of completing their course. As such, please ensure you complete the Tutor Information section of your application.

We are also proud to offer you these other guarantees

7-day refund period. This allows you to examine the first tutorial for seven days.

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7-day refund period. This allows you to examine the first tutorial for seven days.

Common Questions

View frequently asked questions and learn more about this online professional styling course.

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How long does the course take?

Your online professional styling course can be delivered to you over either 12 or 24 weeks. The course is designed to be self-paced, meaning there are no set deadlines for your work. Whilst it is recommended that you submit work on a regular basis and get into the habit of keeping deadlines, you have up to one year to submit your work.

Testimonials

Graduate Stories and Reviews

The British College of Professional Styling is proud to have assisted many people to designing success, or to have played a part in them developing a niche career for themselves.

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Nothing excites us more than to hear of the achievements of our graduates.

We get as much satisfaction and pleasure from our graduates' successes as they do themselves and for this reason, we are proud to share some of the success stories and professional styling course reviews of our many graduates with you here.

Carla T

What I enjoyed most about the course was learning about colours and conducting colour analysis which helps a great deal with wardrobe culling. This is guiding me to focus on the image consultancy/personal shopping side of styling.

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Sheila C

I genuinely endorse this course because this course has enabled me to blend past and current skills with my love of fashion and styling. Now I have turned a dream into a rewarding and satisfying business venture and I have never been happier!

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Ann L

The course tutorials weren’t just endless text, they made for addictive reading. I couldn’t wait to receive my next tutorial. My assignment research was neither difficult nor arduous.

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Anna P

I couldn’t have dreamt that the British College of Professional Styling could, in such a short time, help me find the direction I always desired in life. I am now helping women rediscover themselves and through this course, I discovered myself.

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Sarah K

I learned about everything related to the styling industry, from magazines, to wardrobe and celebrity styling I have able to work in them all because of the comprehensive course.

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About us

About The British College of Professional Styling

The British College of Professional Styling is a division of International News Syndicate Limited with our directors and principals involved in all aspects of distance learning for over 30 years.

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Learn from Industry Professionals

We are an international training company with students in more than 80 countries and territories. The principles of styling are similar the world over.

However our course has been individually revised and designed to suit the needs of students living and working in the United Kingdom. Your Diploma of Professional Styling and ID Pass from the British College of Professional Styling are posted to you when you successfully complete your course.

Contact The British College of Professional Styling

Contact Us

As our course is conducted online all correspondence to and from the College, including tutorials and assignments, is via email or student portal and therefore, we find written communication is best.

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Get in touch with us

As our course is conducted online all correspondence to and from the College, including tutorials and assignments, is via email or student portal and therefore, we find written communication is best.

We look forward to hearing from you soon.

Student Support

The student and graduate support page will assist you with any administrative queries or requests you may have. Please click here to request a replacement diploma, update an I.D. pass or get help with an assignment.

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How can the College help you today?

This student and graduate support page will assist you with any administrative queries or requests you may have. From this page you can do things like request a replacement diploma, update an I.D. pass or get help with an assignment. If you have any other questions or concerns, please feel free to get in touch with the college via email or using your student portal.

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