Confessions of A Wannabe It Girl
The podcast that delves into the raw reality of achieving your dreams. Hosted by Marley Freygang who thought she had it all figured out, the show explores the gritty details of what it really takes to "make it" in today's world. From the high-pressure demands to the relentless hustle, she shares her experiences of the less-than-instagramable side of chasing your dreams.
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Confessions of A Wannabe It Girl
🔁 Celebrity Stylist: Beyond the Red Carpet Teaching You How to Chase Your Dreams With Fiona Skye
This episode is the real deal about how chasing your dreams and full-blown belief in yourself can fast-track you in your career! We dive in with Warbarode stylist to the stars, Fiona Skye. She is giving us all an inside scoop on what takes to be a stylist but also how she skyrocketed in Los Angeles by being bold and putting herself out there.
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Fiona Skye is an LA based wardrobe stylist originally from New York.
Fiona realized her passion for fashion at a very young age. Starting her career off at Universal Music Group for Bravado, she quickly realized her love for the creative industry.
Fiona has interned for top stylists Dani Michelle and Maeve Reilly and also assisted stylist Law Roach + other well known stylists.
Whether it's a red carpet event or a street style look, with her passion and talent, she is sure to make a lasting impression in the world of fashion.
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Hi guys and welcome back to Confessions of a Wannabe it Girl. I am so excited to be taking a look back at some of our really popular episodes. I'm taking a little three-week break while I travel Europe, so I thought you know, with awards season coming around again, I thought it'd be amazing to look back at our episode with Fiona Skye. She is a celebrity stylist and we're diving into all the tea behind the red carpet and how to chase those crazy dreams. Let's dive in. Welcome to Confessions of a Wannabe it Girl. I'm your host, marley Fregging, and I'm here to help you filter out all the bullshit and become the next it Girl. This podcast explores the reality of what it really takes to make it out there. As it turns out, it is way less Instagrammable than I thought it was going to be.
Speaker 1:I'm still very much a work in progress, but there's simply nothing else I'd rather be doing than chasing my dreams. So let's learn from my mistakes and work together to achieve our dreams with more confidence, clarity and direction. Let's get after it. Dreams with more confidence, clarity and direction. Let's get after it. Welcome, fiona Skye to the podcast. So I'm going to cut to the chase with you. You are a stylist.
Speaker 2:Can you kind of tell?
Speaker 1:us the types of people you work with?
Speaker 2:Yes, Thank you for having me. First of all, so happy to have you. I'm so excited to be here. I work with a lot of influencers your favorite TikTok stars and I've done a lot of assisting work with bigger celebrities, so hopefully one day we'll be doing those.
Speaker 1:I love it, but do you? What do you call yourself when people ask you what you do? I?
Speaker 2:just say a wardrobe stylist.
Speaker 1:Okay, what's the difference between wardrobe stylist and like any other stylist?
Speaker 2:I feel like there's also like costume stylists that do like more TV shows and stuff. Honestly, I don't know. Nobody tells you what your name should be. That's so fair. There's no like rule book, so I just I like wardrobe stylist. I've always wanted to be like a wardrobe stylist, right.
Speaker 1:Whatever that means, which means for like events.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like red carpet events, street style, love it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, needs to be dressed for day to day, not for film or television. Exactly, very cool.
Speaker 2:So what made you want to be a stylist? I feel like I've always wanted to be a stylist since I could remember like seven years old. I always loved putting clothes together and mixing things around and like researching and finding like the perfect top, the perfect pants, and yeah, it was kind of always what I wanted to do.
Speaker 1:So you go back and forth between LA and New York, kind of like two tough towns, yeah, and you know it's a thick competition to be a stylist, right, yeah? What keeps you in it? How long have you been doing it? What are all the like the orientations of becoming a wardrobe stylist?
Speaker 2:It's really competitive. So many people want to be a wardrobe stylist and nobody really talks about how you get there. And there's not really a one-way path to get there because nobody tells you. So I have a funny story of how I got into it. But I think most people start off by interning for a stylist and assisting and then over time, like after like eight years, like you're assisting for a long time, then you get your own clients. So it's a long path.
Speaker 1:How long do people go to med school? I don't know but 10 years.
Speaker 2:But like, but like similar. Like most stylists get their big clients and like break in the industry when they're like 29 to 34,. I feel like most stylists get their big clients and like break in the industry when they're like 29 to 34,. I feel like Okay, which is crazy to me. I was like I'm I'm not doing that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you were literally like I'm not doing that. So wait, can you tell us this? I know this story but like I'm giddy about it because I think it really shows putting yourself forward, you're just going to go for it. So I want to go ahead and tell this story. I love this story.
Speaker 2:It literally gives me butterflies still like thinking about it. I was in college and because of COVID I took college remotely for my senior year. So I begged my parents to move to LA. I was like I have this gut feeling like if I move to LA I'm going to find my career. What did you study? In college too, I studied graphic design and acting. Okay, so like, yeah, arts, it was like the most creative thing that you ever had to offer.
Speaker 1:So there's no wardrobe styling.
Speaker 2:There's no styling. Fashion school was never an option for me. I had to go to school because I was an athlete for rowing, so it was like, just not up for discussion.
Speaker 1:Got it. So senior year convinced parents I can move to LA.
Speaker 2:They were like you have six months to find your job, to finish college, and after that, if you don't do either of those things, you're moving home. I like made a PowerPoint and budgeted out LA. Like it was crazy, I begged I fucking love that though.
Speaker 2:I had. When I want something, I am like full force go get them. So, moved to LA, I was DMing my favorite stylist assistants. No one was answering me, nobody wanted to take me as an intern and I did not understand why. So I was sitting at Craig's the restaurant in West Hollywood and I was with my dad and his two friends. And I was with my dad. I was like assuming it was like a girl's night out.
Speaker 1:I was with my dad. I was like assuming it was like a girl's night out. I was with my dad. Continue.
Speaker 2:You'll see why this is weird. Okay, so, with my dad and my parents, two friends and I see these guys come in and sit next to us and I at this point didn't really know who they were. Like I didn't. I didn't watch them on Tik TOK, but I knew that they were Tik TOKers because my roommate had just been telling me about them prior. So they come in through the back. I'm like I know these are important people Because they came in through the back.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and their style is so bad. Oh, my God, like, if they listen to this like. I'm so sorry.
Speaker 1:Please, I could use that.
Speaker 2:But their style was so bad. And so I remember I went to the bathroom and I called my best friend and I was like I was like these guys are sitting next to me and like I want to ask them to style them, but like that's so awkward and I don't, I don't, I don't want to like interrupt their dinner. She was like do it. Literally, she like forced me to do it. She was like you have nothing to lose, do it. I was like okay, fuck it. So I go up to the front of the restaurant. Did you tell your?
Speaker 1:dad. I'm like, hey, I'm going to do this.
Speaker 2:No, no, no, no, wait. So I go to the front of the restaurant. I'm like, okay, can I borrow a pen and paper? I write down my name and number on a piece of paper and I go back to the table. I'm like kind of shaking because I'm like so nervous. I'm like with these boys, like don't ask questions, just leave. He was like okay, I was like I know. So I go up to the table next to them. They're sitting with their parents and like I think it was their manager at the time, I don't really know. I was like hi, like I'm so sorry to interrupt, I just want to leave this here. I'm Fiona. Like I really want to be a stylist one day. Would love to style you guys. I'm graduating college soon, which was the lie. I still had a year.
Speaker 2:Okay, I also was not a stylist. I was like, yeah, I'm a stylist. Here you go, thank you to the market. There was like fun banter. They were like, oh, like you don't like our style. I was like I could help you, good job. Then two Katie, their assistant at the time, texted me and was like hey, like I'd love to schedule an interview with you. Like the boys gave me your number. I hear you're a stylist. I was like I'm not a stylist. I've never dressed a man in my whole life, ever. So then I, for two days, made mock-ups on like Photoshop.
Speaker 1:What's a mock-up?
Speaker 2:Like I like, pulled from different websites and made like 25 outfits for them.
Speaker 1:Okay, and you know, all right, you will have the graphic design thing.
Speaker 2:Exactly that is helpful so I didn't know what else I was supposed to like come to that meeting with and the meeting went well. She was like we want to work with you. We who did you interview with.
Speaker 2:I interviewed with Katie and she was basically just asking, like pricing and like who have you styled? And I'm like to be honest, nobody. But like I know I can do it and like here are outfits that I think they would look good in, which is like looking back. That's so funny that I made outfits ahead of time.
Speaker 2:It's just like the whole thing was wrong, but I got the job and I like to thank Katie and that whole team for my career, because they knew that I didn't have experience and they fully just like, took me on and believed in me and I figured it out, my first fitting. I never dealt with men's sizing, ever.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, it's fucking weird.
Speaker 2:It's so weird and everything worked out Like all the sizing was perfect. He loved everything, the shoes were perfect. I was like I don't know who's watching over me, but thank you, wow, and that's how I got my job.
Speaker 1:There are so many things I want to pull out of this. First of all that. So you had no like portfolio before this and you were just like I have to do this, like I'm going to shoot my shot, yeah, and you call the best friend in the bathroom and you're like what? 20, 21, 21.
Speaker 2:Wow, Like 22, maybe 21, 22. You're young.
Speaker 1:I mean, you're still young, but like you just pull this like charisma together to go do it. You go up to them. You don't, like you know, bat the eyelash of like, oh, like I'm a nobody and I know I think you're doing great. You're very blunt, you're very straightforward and like, yeah, you faked it till you made it fully fully. I also think there's something so interesting to know I've heard this similarly with other people who've, like, made a successful move in their career is they did it kind of wrong, but it like, yeah, like ignorance is bliss. Yes, like you didn't know you were doing it wrong, so, like you just did it and they didn't know any better too.
Speaker 2:I think like it was perfect. The team I found was perfect. They were new to the fame, they were new to the attention. Everything about it just worked out in my favor, wow.
Speaker 1:Yeah. So now that you've been in this world for a while, like tell us what are more of the like normal steps that people will go through?
Speaker 2:Okay so. So I was saying I was a stylist back then and I wasn't now that I know what a stylist really does. I was personal shopping back then, so I was going to stores.
Speaker 1:What's the difference?
Speaker 2:So I don't know if people actually say there's a difference, but in my mind it's so different so I like to like there's a difference here. So personal shopping is you get a budget, maybe you don't get a budget, maybe you just have a credit card and you're going to stores, you're going online, you're shopping and returning whatever is not used, whatever's not wanted, and then whatever he keeps or she keeps. But styling is you need all of the brands and showroom contacts, you need emails, you're reaching out to the brands, you're getting approvals to see if the brands will dress your client and you're never spending money. It's. There's no money involved most of the time, unless, unless you do a custom or unless they do give you a budget sometimes. But these people have huge followings. They, the brands, want to dress them, so it's. So. I had no idea that that was what styling was.
Speaker 1:No idea. Wow, so you get in this position and then do you kind of like gain a mentor or did you start getting other work. What happened there?
Speaker 2:So I got him as a client, I got one of the guys as a client from that restaurant and then from there I was like I really want to learn how to actually do this. Like, yeah, I have a client and that's really cool, but I am not going to get to where I want to go unless I follow somewhat of the steps, Sure, you know. So I had a stylist, a big stylist team, reach out to me and offer me an internship, which was like whoa, which is what you had been trying to get through the DMS.
Speaker 2:Right, Okay. So they asked me to intern for them. So I did that for seven months and that was like I was doing bitch work, Like I was running around LA in my car just picking up things and returning things. It was terrible, awful. I didn't learn anything and it was just like coffee. You're all right.
Speaker 1:But, like I guess, you earned your stripes or like I don't know.
Speaker 2:I guess it was like good to put on my resume. From there I was. This is so funny. I was at Craig's again, again Craig's is literally like go to Craig's to network. Go to Craig's if you want to find a job, so I'm. I'm going to go there more often. You have to go there, so I'm going to Craig's again. I'm like picking up my hair is in a bun. I'm wearing no bra sweatshirt, sweatpants. I look like absolute shit.
Speaker 2:Oh, you're just grabbing food grabbing food to go, because I'm a bougie bitch sometimes and I see Maeve Riley, who is my idol, yeah, Idol. I see her sitting at the table next to me. I'm like there's no way I'm going up to her, Like I. I've been emailing with her assistant for a year begging them for an internship.
Speaker 1:I have to say the sweat pants and like bun thing, like I could kind of feel like she'd fuck with that. I looked like a slob.
Speaker 2:I was like a slob, but like it's fine. And I so, since I'd been emailing with them for so long, I was like I need to go, I need to go up to her. So I go up to her, I'm like round two. Hey, so sorry to interrupt your dinner. Like I am obsessed with you, I'm obsessed with your style. Like you're the reason I'm in styling. Like I want to work for you. She was like well, what are you doing now? Like she was asking me so many questions, I told her what I was doing. She was like well, you have a client and you have an internship. Like you're good, you're on the right path. And I was like, no, I want to work for you. Okay, thank you.
Speaker 1:So two days later and also these people have been receptive to you when you've walked up. People are so scared because they think they're going to be mean and like or like you're um, what's it called Intruding on my dinner, but like they've been nice.
Speaker 2:I think if you're respectful about it and you're going like I'm, I'm never like, oh, can I take a picture? It's like no, like I really want to meet you, I respect you, I want to like. Here's why.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Like X, Y, Z, da, da, da, da da. Like I fucking know who you are, Not just like oh, I know you're kind of famous and I like could kind of do something for you. Like yeah, it's not fangirl energy. Exactly, you're coming up in a business energy.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and not even like a Like. I feel like both of those times I felt so confident that like I can offer something and I feel like I just like stayed true to that, so they bring you in, so they bring me in two days later and I worked for her for a year and I mean it just like slowly trickled out because my work got so busy.
Speaker 2:but her team was big mentors for me, were big mentors for me. They taught me so much. I assisted a little bit here and there, which like is on the deal.
Speaker 1:Um, what's the difference between assisting and like?
Speaker 2:assisting is more like you're sending emails, you're pulling from showrooms. More hands-on, less errands. You're in a fitting. So it was. That was the best experience.
Speaker 1:So, like now that you've done all this work, like, is it just a resume? Do you have a portfolio? Like how do you continue to get more work, or do you have the clients and you're just like locked now?
Speaker 2:No, I feel like new things come my way every single week almost, which is really cool to watch. I'm still kind of grasping, like how like do I reach out to people? Do I send cold call emails Lately the past like four months? Everything I reach out to people, do I send cold call emails lately, the past like four months, everything has been coming to me, which is great. So, like I feel like syndrome. I'm like I don't know, I don't know why, but I think just once you have a clientele that trusts you and like their managers trust you and like you.
Speaker 2:People just start referring to you.
Speaker 1:People start seeing my Instagram and DMing me and it just yeah, so it's all about like who you know and like how you know them.
Speaker 2:It is kind of about who you know. Like once you know the right people, if they like you and they like your work and they trust you, then it's like people don't really want to get someone from an outer circle because of trust. So like it's like once you're in, your name is kind of in.
Speaker 1:Right. So something I like to talk a lot about on this podcast is like kind of the networking, which can sound like a gross ass word because everyone's like what's networking? Networking's gross or like you know it does feel like I just want something from you Like what is like cause? Also, people think this is fucking magic. Like you show up to LA, you walk up to someone at Craig's and like ta-da and you have a career Like what is your like inner workings and thoughts towards networking, like how do you approach it?
Speaker 2:I feel like I might hate that word too. Yeah, I hate it, I hate. The thing that I hate about LA is so many people are trying to get something from you. Yes, I feel like I have like stayed so true to myself and like I'm so passionate about my job that like I just want to dress people and that's it Like I'm. I don't care who you are, what you do, and I feel like people in this industry like crave to see genuine people who just like what their job is, and so I feel like that is something to do with it.
Speaker 1:You are really like putting yourself out there. Not everybody has as much like confidence and wherewithal. Like where did that really come from for you? And like what do you tap back into when you're like doing a scary pitch or like going up to people at restaurants?
Speaker 2:I don't know who gave me the confidence to do that Like who? Where did I get the audacity? I don't know.
Speaker 1:Like, but it's paid off.
Speaker 2:It's paid off so much and I would do it, and I probably will do it a million more times. I feel like a lot of people are too scared to go after what they want to do. You just do it and you stay true to yourself and you're not trying to get anything out of anybody, you're just like this is my passion, I want to work.
Speaker 1:It's so interesting because I think a lot of people talk about manifestation, and manifestation is like the idea of, like you know, I'll sit here and like I'll think about these things, and then it will just come to me. It's like no, no, no, no. You also have to have like the whole thing to back it up. Like you sure Maybe you didn't have the resume when you walked up to the people, but like how long had you been studying fashion? How long had you been thinking about, looks like, extending your education?
Speaker 2:Like probably a while. Yeah, I think I. Okay, I literally manifest my life. Like it's so crazy. Like last week I said I want to style this person. I was like this is the one person I want to work for. A week later, flown to Vegas to work with her. Wow, I'm telling you like it's so, like I think, if you genuinely believe it in your soul, like this is going to happen, and you also work hard to get there, Right, you have to have it.
Speaker 1:You have to have the support to back it up. Exactly Right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you can't just sit in your room and be like bring me, bring it to me.
Speaker 1:It's not going to happen, it's to go after it. But so this is a tough, this is a tough town. New York is a tough town and you go back and forth Like you're throwing yourself out there. There's gotta be some rejection sometimes.
Speaker 2:Yes, there's rejection. No, I do not take it. Well, okay, that was good. I was going to say how do you handle it? No, I don't, I don't handle it. If you know how to handle it, let me know.
Speaker 1:Um well, my life is full of no's on some level, like I mean, I'm not speaking that into existence, like I live in a world of, like I'm an actor, so I get told no on the fucking daily. Yeah, then, uh, you know, I pitch myself all the time for podcast guests and like I get told no all the time. So, honestly, this sounds horrible. You just get fucking used to it.
Speaker 2:You get used to it. I have not gotten used to it. Every time I get rejected I'm really sad about it, and I'm sad about it or like, in a way, like rejection for me is like I get a lot of hate on the outfits that I do Really yes.
Speaker 1:Oh, like from Tik TOK, yes, Like there have been Tik TOK Tik.
Speaker 2:TOKers are mean. There have been. Yeah, they are. I've had some hate. They're mean and I had. I never dealt with this until the past few months when I started doing a lot of red carpets for one of my clients and I got so much hate and, like I, literally are they calling you up.
Speaker 1:Like no, you did it.
Speaker 2:They're like fire this fucking stylist. And I'm like you guys. First of all, you're probably sitting. I have to remind myself that these people are not stylists and they're sitting in their room criticizing other people and it's getting the correction.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:However, at the time I'm like crying in my bed, like I don't know how to deal with it, I don't think it'll ever get easier, like I think it's just like something that sucks. And then after a week I'm like, okay, fuck this. Now I have a fuck you attitude, right.
Speaker 1:Now you're like all right, that was some engagement, but in the moment it like hurts, like hell.
Speaker 2:Yeah, cause it's like that's my art and like you don't know what goes into it and it's just frustrating.
Speaker 1:Right, and it's just so easy to sit behind a screen and complain, complain, complain, exactly, but like, have you ever been had a rejection situation in person, like maybe not social media, or like you know in more so the industry? And like, is it the same? Do you deal with the same?
Speaker 2:I sit and cry in front of them, cause I would too.
Speaker 1:I am no shame. I will cry any place, any time.
Speaker 2:No, I don't think I've ever really been rejected in person. Good With love yeah, I don't think. I don't think that's ever really been rejected in person. Good with love yeah, I don't think. I don't think that's ever. I don't want that for anyone but it's hard. Yeah, I don't think I ever have that's great.
Speaker 1:This career, like, takes a lot of drive, passion and talent and it's like it's an it girl career to be a wardrobe stylist and you're also around some very it girl or it boy. What's the version of that Like? Do you have any insight on the sparkly effect of them, like? What makes them glow? What do you think makes you glow? You know? Do you know what I mean?
Speaker 2:I feel like like their drive. Yeah, I think all of these people work really hard and, yeah, like they work really really fucking hard to get to where they are and they continue to work hard. And those are the people who get far in the industry, and I feel like I've actually been really lucky where almost or actually not almost every single client that I've been around works their ass off, continues to work their ass off, and, yeah, work their ass off and yeah, they just grind, wow, and they're really good people too. So I feel like that just shows like you're not going to get far in the industry if you're not willing to put your head down and work.
Speaker 1:Right, like how many stylists or clients have you encountered that are kind of like no talent, no work ethic?
Speaker 2:Yeah, so there are a few people that I've been around who have egos and not okay, not a good drive. That has never been the client though that's nice, that's never been the client.
Speaker 1:So other people in the industry and like yeah, just like they don't have the drive and they don't have the talent and they just kind of did it because they felt like it.
Speaker 2:It's like. It's like their ego gets in the way and then they're like I don't know, I've been around, I've worked for some big, big egos and it's hard how do you manage an ego? I did not handle it well. I also cried for two weeks straight Same.
Speaker 1:I'm very emotional.
Speaker 2:I'm like, I'm normally not an emotional person, but some people in this industry are really cruel and they just think that they're the best and they bring you down, and that's how. That's what makes them feel better.
Speaker 1:So, like when you are having a bad day and you know, you're like, oh, cause we all do this. I mean, maybe you don't, but I do. And it's like, oh, I'm just going to throw in the towel. You don't mean it, but you're like I'm just going to throw in the towel, like what keeps you going in this career?
Speaker 2:I motivation is not a hard thing for me because I this is like, this is like my ha, it's my hobby and it's my job. So, yeah, so it's like it's it's mode. Finding the motivation is never a hard thing for me and at the end of the day, if I do get hate or I am having a bad day or whatever it is that's bringing me down. If anything, it's way more motivating for me. I'm like I'm going to prove these people wrong and yeah, I just have like a fuck it mentality, Like I'm going to get to where I want to go, Like I have big goals and I don't really care who gets in my way.
Speaker 1:I love it. So you are kind of young People get to being like a full blown wardrobe stylist. You know closer to like eight or 10 years in, yeah, and you're kind of young for that. Like, what do you think has separated you from the pack?
Speaker 2:I think, not being scared to go after what you want, and I also was I put in the work. But I also was really lucky to find a team that, like, believed in me and kind of was willing to grow with me, because without that I don't know where I would have been. So a little bit of luck, a little bit of work, right, but it all backed it all, backed each other's up, Exactly Okay.
Speaker 1:So, like for us who have no idea, like how the styling world works, like what happens, do you, you, you pitch, you get a client, how do you get a client? And then what? All the way to like everything being returned or taken back.
Speaker 2:Okay, so the process. I feel like no one knows this. No, it's like I think it's magic.
Speaker 1:Like literally fairy godmother status.
Speaker 2:It is so not glamorous, it is so not glam. All my friends still think it's glam.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they see the final product and I'm like no.
Speaker 2:So let me tell you so. First I get a text and it's like Josh Richards is going to Vanity Fair X Oscars party. Can you find a look for him? Okay, first thing I do is I have a list on my computer that I've gathered over the year and a half of assisting and interning of showrooms and brands with emails that you have relationships, that I have relationships with. Some have never answered me before. I guess that's some rejection right there, but I will still try. So I'll email every single brand and showroom and I'll basically in the email be like hi, team, hope, all is well. I'm styling Josh Richards for the Oscars X Vanity Fair party. We'd love to look into available options. Here's the talent, here's the event. This is the date that I need to receive it by. Thank you in advance for your time.
Speaker 1:So you're very transparent about who the client and what the event is.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because you have to be, otherwise they're. They're like no, yeah, okay, yeah. So then from there I'll make an Excel sheet and I'll do every showroom and brand that I've reached out to. That way, once emails start coming in, I can keep track of who has approved him and tracking information. If they're sending it, appointments, if I'm going to local showrooms, et cetera. Emails will come in Are some not local.
Speaker 2:They're virtual, like they'll just send you stuff. Some are like New York, london, milan, they're everywhere Got it. So once emails start coming in, the brands if it's a brand they'll usually tell you to go to Vogue runway, the app, and then you'll go through and you'll just screenshot your selects and then send them back. Oh, that's nice.
Speaker 1:So easy, so fun. I love that. I know a lot of this involves some driving.
Speaker 2:Yeah. So then if it's a showroom like, let's say it's a showroom in New York, they'll send lookbooks of the brands that they carry. You'll screenshot and you'll send it back. They'll send whatever they have available in his sizing. If it's LA showrooms, you're driving around LA pulling at the showroom and making selects and then you take the garment bag with you, come back to my apartment, I check it all in so I take pictures of everything that comes into the office where it came from. That way I can return it back in the same shape and organized fashion, organized fashion. And then, yeah, after everything comes in, I'll go to my client's house, we'll do the fitting, and for a fitting I'll normally I'll put my favorite looks on one rack and then I'll have my client go through the rack and pick out his favorites and we'll start there, try everything on. There's always a tailor on hand so that everything can be fixed. And do you have to organize the tailor? Yes, okay, yeah. And then, yeah, after that, pick a look, get it tailored and then everything gets returned.
Speaker 1:So then you just go back and take it all back and you have to. It all has to be correct, right? Yes, you go here, you can't go somewhere else.
Speaker 2:Oh my God, it's so confusing, Like I. So when something comes in, I take a picture of, let's say it's a box, the box, and then every single thing that comes out of that box because you have to, it has to go back to the right place.
Speaker 1:So especially because you're bi-coastal. What happens in New York? Because driving is not quite as available?
Speaker 2:Okay, so I. So I don't really style in New York, but I've done a lot of assisting in New York, right, so you're like taking it on the subway? No, it's, I'll Uber. Okay, and I'll do like literally one day where we were getting ready for something I don't know what, but I was interning, slash assisting, and I had 16 stops to go to, yeah, and I literally just had an Uber take me everywhere, right. But normally I think people probably subway Like I. I was like I'm going to suck this Uber charge because I'm not subwaying too much.
Speaker 2:You have like 20 garment bags over your shoulder and suitcases and like it's just no no, that, that is too much, I don't know how people do it in New York.
Speaker 1:I don't. I mean, I heard that from a commercials. I think it was a stylist assistant and he had just moved from New York and he said yeah, he said it's awful in New York and he's cause it's like not you, you don't drive Right.
Speaker 2:I don't know. No one owns a car. My car gets filled up the backseat, the front seat and the trunk all the way to the top. I'm like I could never.
Speaker 1:Wow. And so then it's returned and they select. And do you have to, like, talk to the photographers and tell them that this piece is blah, blah, blah, like? What's that whole deal?
Speaker 2:If my client is going to a red carpet, um, I'll make sure that they know what they're wearing and they tell them. And they'll tell that, like it, like there's been times where he'll be interviewed on the carpet and they'll be like what are you wearing?
Speaker 1:And he'll, he'll know what to say You're like. Let's rehearse.
Speaker 2:You are wearing this brand. Don't get it wrong. Pronounce it right.
Speaker 1:So funny, yeah. So, fiona, you have come such a far way in like a very short time. Like what is your best advice for putting yourself out there and chasing your dreams?
Speaker 2:I think you should not be scared of rejection. You should put yourself out there and you have nothing to lose. Ever Someone's going to say no to you, but if anything, it's going to make you stronger. That sounds cliche, but it's true, and you're setting yourself apart from the pack so much by just going after it and going up to people and putting yourself out there, because not a lot of people will do that. A lot of people are going to sit back. So I think that's my best advice is just go after what you want.
Speaker 1:Fiona Sky, you are so under such a little light. I'm so impressed by how far you've made it so quickly and, like I love your energy, can you tell everybody where they can find you?
Speaker 2:My Instagram is Fiona A Sky and all my work. It's basically a portfolio. There's no pictures of me, so but that's great.
Speaker 1:Enjoy. Thank you so much for taking the time to be here. Thank you for having me. Fiona Sky, thank you so much for coming on the podcast. And, guys, thank you so much for listening. I love this episode because it was such a great reminder for myself just to get out there and put your name out there when you have so much passion. So, guys, thank you so much for listening. Make sure to rate and subscribe to the show and, as always, we'll see you next Tuesday.
