On who inspires her and how she chooses her clients:
POPSUGAR: You've worked with some incredible women over the course of your career. What's your process of deciding who to style and who is inspiring you at the moment?
Monica Rose: My clients inspire me because I work with some really powerful women. Styling is really intimate so you have to get to know the person you're working with, their needs, body type, likes, and dislikes, and you have to introduce them to new things.
You need to have trust which requires a special relationship. If you don't have that, it shows. These women have so much going on that the last thing they want to think about is what they're going to wear and any potential discomfort. My job is to relieve their stress in that department so they can focus on their work.
I believe in taking it to another level of 'I got you'. I was doing that back when I was working retail with my clients. I would be honest about how things looked on them and my colleagues would be shocked because the client was sometimes in the process of buying something. But if a piece looks bad on someone, I'm not going to sell it to them or put them in it now.
