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What’s Your Passion for Fashion? Challenge – Round 1Sponsored by Neiman Marcus

Vote for Sterling Style Academy’s founder and training director, Michelle T. Sterling, on Neiman Marcus’ Passion for Fashion Challenge for your chance to win a complimentary copy of the Personal Shopping Learning Tool and Resource Video Tutorial and Workbook valued at US$497.
Place your vote before August [...]

Watch Image Consultant and Personal Shopper Michelle T. Sterling, Training Director of Sterling Style Academy, as she reveals her true confessions of a shopaholic in a candid and delightful manner.  She decided to turn her shopping addiction into something more credible, a profession, by becoming a personal shopper.
If you’ve always wanted to become an image consultant, personal shopper or [...]

Do you have an eye for style and love to help others look their best? Have you ever thought of becoming an Image Consultant and running your own successful business?
Sterling Style Academy is currently offering Level 1 of their image consultant training course the week of August 3rd in New York for an investment of [...]

Congrats to our winner, Sharon Hope from Los Angeles, who has let us know her thoughts about Confessions of a Shopaholic and if it inspired her as much it did for us.
“Dear Sterling Style Academy,
Thank you so much for the tickets to Confessions of a Shopaholic! The movie was pure eye-candy and really made me think about [...]

San Francisco, California- This fall season declares all eyes on waist as designers take cue after soft architecture for women’s curves. The main silhouette of peplum are predominantly seen in jackets, dresses, and skirts perfectly executed from designers: Bottega Veneta, Chanel, Lanvin, Prada, and Yves Saint Laurent at the Paris and Milan Fall Fashion 08/09 [...]

The Sterling Style Academy educates professional wardrobe and image consultants from around the world.  Below, Janeth Gomez, Sterling Style Academy Certified Image Consultant based in Mexico City,  recomends the following trends for Spring.
 
For this season the green emerald, the grape purple and the hot pink colors are in. So try to combine these trendy tones. [...]

Do you want look a little more fashionable and in style?  If your look just isn’t doing it for you, consider adding some seasonal trends into your wardrobe.  What’s the expert’s suggestion for Fall/Winter?
Proportions: Think contrast when it comes to proportions: narrow on the bottom and voluminous up top or vice versa—enhance your silhouette according [...]

Following a flirty and feminine summer of white willowy dresses and gold strappy sandals, Fall/Winter is ready to shake things up. “Trade in your summertime daintiness for strength this fall and winter—in both style and color,” advises personal stylist Carmen H. Petrossian.
What does the she foresee for the chillier months ahead? “Leggings,” she immediately replies. “Leggings [...]