Sterling Style Academy | Image Consultant & Stylist Training

Arab, Indian, Russian and Asian girls have at least one thing in common, they all love their designer brands. Whether or not you travel and enlist in our 3-Day Certification Program in London, New York, Dubai, Mumbai, or Hong Kong, there is no doubt that you will learn how to mix and match designer fashion [...]

The Sterling Style Academy attracts aspiring personal shoppers from around the globe and a variety of backgrounds. We’re very excited to watch the most recent graduates of the Sterling Style Academy San Francisco and Dubai launch and grow their businesses in 2011! These Certified Personal Shoppers and Stylists are from Brazil, Peru, Saudi Arabia, India, [...]

Many people seek higher education upon graduating from college or university to become further marketable. This is also true in the personal styling and personal shopping industry. Credibility is based on education and experience, and when you seek out certified personal stylist or personal shopper training, you’re further educating yourself to become a highly desirable [...]

Your life as a professional image consultant or personal shopper begins at the Sterling Style Academy.  When you train at one of our 10 personal shopper training classes in New York, Miami, Las Vegas, San Francisco, London, Hong Kong, Sydney, and Dubai, you graduate with a global network of personal stylist peers who are as [...]

Everyone asks you for fashion advice.  You can take a $10 tee-shirt, pair it with designer boots, a shrunken blazer, layer on jewelry and you’ve just made a million-dollar look.  You know the difference between J Brand and Ben Sherman Jeans and can spot Louis Vuitton’s latest release from a mile away. You know who you [...]

Listen to Michelle T. Sterling, AICI, Founder and Training Director for the Sterling Style Academy as she speaks candidly about her image consultant career and client success stories as an internationally recognized Image Consultant and Personal Shopper.  Ms. Sterling is interviewed by Karri Ann Frerichs, Admissions Director for the Sterling Style Academy. About the Sterling [...]

The Sterling Style Academy Personal Style Evaluation Book Now Available in Spanish as an added benefit of our course.  Students are licensed to keep and utilize our copyrighted image consultant industry materials. The Sterling Style Academy Certified Image Consultants receive our valuable and industry-proven Personal Style Evaluation Books to utilize with their clients.  It is [...]

With the current changes in the global economic climate, corporate environments have become more competitive than ever before. Employees are being judged on more than just their work ethic and performance. A great way to place yourself above the rest is to present your personal image in a confident, approachable and professional manner through dress [...]

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 [...]

The Fashion Group International, FGI, hosted a panel discussion which featured the top Image Consultants and Stylists in San Francisco Bay Area including Sterling Style Academy founder, Michelle T. Sterling.  Audience members asked questions regarding career opportunities in this relatively new industry which, as Ms. Sterling stated, is no more than 20 years old. “What are the actual job titles a [...]