FAQs
- What should the customer know about your pricing (e.g., discounts, fees)?
The complete 5 hour consultation is $750 which includes everything that I’ve described above. It’s much less than my hourly rate of $150. Personal shopping is $75 an hour minimum of 3 hours. I also offer a fun interactive fashion workshop for groups (unlimited participants) for $250. I come to your home and can usually be there within a week or two. I respond to messages extremely quickly.
- What is your typical process for working with a new customer?
I usually have a 15 to 30 minute phone call or video chat to get to know the client better before I see them in person. I arrive at their home, ask some more detailed questions, do the color analysis, then start to go through each item of clothing, start to declutter their closet, teach them about fashion concepts that influence all different kinds of clothing choices, then put together complete outfits, discuss purses, shoes, jewelry, hair and make up and give them unique gifts that will help them make the perfect choices when they look at their wardrobe and choose an outfit to wear. If after the consultation, they need to expand their wardrobe, we make another date to go shopping.
- What education and/or training do you have that relates to your work?
I’ve been in the fashion business since 2002. I designed my fashion styling system, that has never changed, in San Francisco. I moved to Barcelona that year and worked in the fashion department of a prestigious art and design school. I developed my business there and started to have a variety of clients both locally and internationally. I also wrote about all things fashion for various newspapers and magazines. I started teaching trends forecasting, personal styling, catwalk organization and a few other subjects. Later I created graduate programs focusing on those subjects. After 6 years there, I came back to the Bay Area, and restarted my business. I also did costume design for local Bay Area plays and a few indie films. In 2010, I started teaching fashion journalism and a business class at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, while having clients on the side, until I retired in 2018. I took some years off to develop my other creative passion - art - and have recently restarted my business. I love it and am passionate about each client who I’m grateful to work with.