For Stylists

Get paid to style clothes people already own.

No inventory, no pulls, no returns. Work from your client's closet, set your own rate, get paid when the look lands.


Why here.

Styling, without the logistics.

Most styling work is half taste and half freight. Sourcing, pulling, steaming, shipping it back. The part you trained for gets whatever time is left over.

Here the wardrobe is already digitized and tagged. You open a client's closet, see every piece with its color and fabric and fit, and build looks out of what's there. The freight is gone.

Your studio.

Four things to decide.

Your tagline

One line on what you're for. It's the first thing a client reads, so make it sound like a person, not a resume.

Your specialties

Tailoring, color, occasion dressing, capsule building. Clients filter the directory by these, so be specific.

Your rate

You set the number, and it sits on your profile where clients see it before they send anything. Nobody negotiates in a DM.

Your capacity

How many clients you want in a week. Hit it and you drop off the available list until you want back on.

The work.

Brief in, look out.

Read the brief

Occasion, date, budget, how they want to feel, whatever they saved for inspiration. Accept it or pass. Passing costs you nothing.

Build the looks

Pull from their closet and send a few options. Not one perfect answer. Options, so they have something to react to.

Read the votes

They heart or pass on each one. You see which tags keep winning, which is usually more honest than what they wrote in the brief.

Deliver the winner

Final look plus your notes on how to wear it. They can try it on virtually first. Then they rate you, and that's what the next client sees.

Getting paid.

You never work on spec.

Before you accept

Your rate sits on your profile. A client sends a brief and nothing is charged yet. You can pass without explaining yourself.

When you accept

The client is charged that moment. armoires holds the money while you work, so the job is funded before you start it.

After you deliver

A 72 hour review window opens. If the client approves, you're paid that day. If they say nothing, it releases to you automatically when the window closes.

Payouts run on Stripe. You do their onboarding once, with a W-9 or W-8 plus identity and bank details. That goes to Stripe, not to us. We never see your bank account, and neither does your client.

Taxes are yours to file. If your activity crosses the federal or state reporting thresholds for the year, a 1099-K is issued for you automatically.

There's a platform fee on each booking. The rate is written into your Stylist Agreement and shown to you before you take a single client. You won't find out what it was after the fact.

Standards.

The numbers we hold you to.

48h

Reply to a client

Business hours, 90% of the time, measured across 30 days.

72h

Accept or decline a brief

90% of the time, measured across 30 days.

90%

Delivered on time

Measured across 90 days.

4.0

Average client rating

Or better, across 90 days.

10%

Cancellation ceiling

Stay under it, across 90 days.

15%

Refund ceiling

Stay under it, across 90 days.

None of it counts for your first 30 days after your first booking, so a slow start can't hurt you. Slip below a line later and you get 30 days to fix it, and we tell you which number and by how much.


Questions.

What stylists ask us.

Do I need my own clients to start?

No. You're listed in the directory and clients find you there. You can also invite people you already style, which is how most first months go.

What does it cost me to be here?

Nothing to set up a studio or to be listed. armoires takes a fee on bookings that actually happen, and that rate is in your agreement before you take a client.

Do I have to shop for anyone?

No, and that's the point. You style what's already in the closet. You can recommend a piece if a client asks, but nothing here pushes you to sell.

What if a client is impossible to please?

It happens. The voting step usually catches a mismatch early, before you've sunk an afternoon into it. If it goes sideways after delivery we can refund them, and one refund won't sink your standing. A pattern will.

Can I keep working with a client off the app?

Not for work that started here. It's in the agreement, and it's also the deal: we brought you the client and we carry the payment risk, the disputes, and the tax paperwork.

How much control do I have over my schedule?

Set your weekly capacity and flip yourself unavailable whenever you want. Being full costs you nothing. Leaving people hanging does.

Who owns the looks I build?

They live in your portfolio and in your client's app. Your lookbook is yours to show off, and it's the main thing new clients read before booking you.

When does this open?

Stylist accounts roll out with the private beta, and we're taking a small founding group first. Get on the list and we'll reach out.

Bring the taste. We'll handle the rest.

We're onboarding a small founding group of stylists before styling opens to everyone.

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