Virtual Image Consulting
Create a strategic visual presence aligned with your career and leadership goals through image analysis, personal-brand direction, wardrobe priorities, and a detailed digital image playbook.
Build a wardrobe and visual presence that feel unmistakably like you with virtual image consulting and personal styling tailored to your goals. From color direction and closet strategy to polished outfit formulas, Sterling Style Academy helps Detroit professionals and individuals make confident choices for work, events, and everyday life—without the guesswork of shopping or dressing alone.
Virtual, personalized style services designed to refine your wardrobe, presence, and confidence.
Create a strategic visual presence aligned with your career and leadership goals through image analysis, personal-brand direction, wardrobe priorities, and a detailed digital image playbook.
Clarify your style, edit your wardrobe, receive tailored shopping recommendations, and get a digital lookbook of coordinated outfits through live online styling sessions.
Discover clothing, hair, makeup, and jewelry colors that enhance your natural features with a personalized assessment based on hue, value, intensity, and contrast.
Your image should support where you are going—not create another daily decision. Sterling Style Academy uses the Sterling Method™ to connect color, fit, lifestyle, wardrobe needs, and personal goals into practical recommendations. Detroit clients can access live virtual guidance from home or office, with clear outfit direction and shopping priorities that make getting dressed for demanding workdays, events, and life transitions easier.
See how focused style strategy turns wardrobe uncertainty into a confident, repeatable personal presence.
Experience-led image guidance with a global perspective and practical focus.
Founder Michelle T. Sterling brings more than 20 years across fashion, retail, and image consulting.
The Sterling Method™ links wardrobe choices to your goals, presence, lifestyle, and personal brand.
Detroit clients receive focused live guidance remotely, without adding travel time to an already full schedule.
Training and client experience spanning more than 60 countries brings broad, refined style insight to every consultation.
Founder and Training Director
Sterling Style Academy provides professional education in image consulting, personal styling, color analysis, personal shopping and fashion styling for students around the world. Founded by Michelle T. Sterling, the Academy offers both flexible online courses and intensive in-person certification programs designed to build practical, client-ready skills.
Students can choose from the 1-Day Stylist Training, 2-Day Color Analysis Training, 3-Day Fashion Stylist & Color Analysis Training, 5-Day Personal Stylist Training, 7-Day Image Consultant Training, or the comprehensive 2-Week Image Consultant & Personal Stylist Training.
In addition to training students, Sterling Style Academy works with private clients through Sterling Personal Styling, offering image consulting, personal styling, and color analysis services.
An image consultant and stylist helps align your clothing, grooming, color choices, and overall presentation with your lifestyle and goals. Services may include color analysis, style assessment, wardrobe editing, outfit planning, personal shopping, and personal-brand strategy. The result is a practical system for choosing pieces that fit well, work together, and communicate the impression you want to make.
Speak with an experienced stylist about the right virtual service.
Multiple Award-Winning, Professionally Certified Image Consultant and Industry Leader
Recognized for professional excellence and leadership in the image-consulting and styling industry.
Recognized for influence and leadership in online personal styling.
Featured in Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, WWD, Business Insider, E! News and HuffPost.
Share your style goals, and we’ll help you identify the virtual consultation or styling service that fits.
You can also send us a quick email at info@sterlingstyleacademy.com.
You can also send us a quick email at info@sterlingstyleacademy.com.