Wardrobe Makeovers
Transform your closet with a personalized style direction, wardrobe evaluation, closet edit, targeted shopping, and practical outfit guidance that helps each piece work harder for you.
Build a wardrobe that works as hard as you do with personalized styling in NYC. Sterling Personal Styling helps men and women define their style, edit what no longer serves them, shop with purpose, and create polished outfits for work, events, travel, and everyday life. From a SoHo shopping day to a career-changing executive presence, every recommendation is tailored to you.

Personalized wardrobe, shopping, color, and image strategies designed around your lifestyle, goals, and individual style direction.
Transform your closet with a personalized style direction, wardrobe evaluation, closet edit, targeted shopping, and practical outfit guidance that helps each piece work harder for you.
Develop a strategic visual presence with personal brand analysis, wardrobe architecture, outfit formulas, and a digital image playbook designed to support professional goals and leadership presence.
Discover clothing colors that complement your natural features through the Sterling Color Quality System, with personalized guidance for apparel, hair shades, jewelry, and makeup choices.
A great wardrobe should make getting dressed simpler, not more stressful. Our NYC personal styling services combine style identity, color harmony, fit, lifestyle needs, and purposeful shopping into a practical plan. Whether you are refining your professional image, navigating a body or life change, or preparing for the city’s demanding work-and-social calendar, you receive thoughtful direction that supports confident, repeatable dressing.

See how intentional wardrobe strategy helps clients feel polished, prepared, and unmistakably themselves.
Experience informed, individualized guidance from a team grounded in image consulting and luxury fashion expertise.
Benefit from 20+ years of fashion, retail, corporate, and image consulting experience.
Recommendations reflect your goals, body architecture, color direction, lifestyle, and personal taste.
Receive hands-on wardrobe and shopping support designed for New York’s fast-moving professional and social settings.
Gain polished direction informed by affiliations with luxury houses including Giorgio Armani and Cartier.

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.
Sterling Personal Styling’s in-person NYC wardrobe services start at $2,500 for an 8-hour Essential Wardrobe Makeover. In-person Executive Image Strategy begins at $3,000 for eight hours, while a 1.5-hour Color Express Shopping consultation in New York is $297. Final pricing can vary based on the service selected, scope of goals, shopping needs, and any travel requirements.
Speak with our team about the wardrobe support that fits your goals.
In-person wardrobe styling and image consulting for clients throughout New York City and by request.
New York City
Primary Market
In-Person Service
Styling Format
Virtual Available
Consultation Option
Tell us your wardrobe goals and preferred consultation format.

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, preferred service, and NYC availability. Our team will help identify the right next step for your wardrobe.
You can also send us a quick email at info@sterlingstyleacademy.com.
You can also send us a quick email at info@sterlingstyleacademy.com.