Elvija Vitola is a recent fashion promotion graduate with experience in styling, visual merchandising, and fashion communications. She has worked internationally in London and Milan and is proficient in programs like Photoshop, InDesign, and Final Cut Pro. Her career highlights include assisting a stylist for Russian Interview magazine and working backstage at London Fashion Week shows. She is currently a part-time sales consultant focusing on client styling.

1. SKILLS:
Adobe Photoshop Adobe Bridge
Adobe InDesign Microsoft Office
Adobe Illustrator Final Cut Pro X
INTERESTS:
Fashion Styling Visual Merchdising
Picture editing Architecture
Art Direction Sustainable design
Fashion Writing
PROFILE:
A coordinator, assimilator, and collector of material, knowledge and thought from the past and
present. I call myself a freelance stylist or as I like to say- image constructor.
Recent graduate from BA (HONS) Fashion Promotion, I have gained international experience
working in London and Milan and I know how to effectively adapt to new environments.
Furthermore having extensive styling work experience I am an effective networker and
communicator with a keen eye for good design.
ELVIJA VITOLA
EDUCATION:
2012- 2015 BA (Hons) Fashion Promotion, First Class, University for the Creative Arts at Rochester, UK
Feb. - Jun. 2014 BA Fashion Stylist, Erasmus exchange at IED (Instituto Europeo di Design) Moda
Milano, Milan, Italy
2011- 2012 UAL Level 3 Foundation Diploma in Art and Design, University for the Creative Arts at
Maidstone, UK
OTHER ACHIEVEMENTS:
• Interning in Black Frame PR and handling various tasks- looking after the showroom’s space,
receiving returns from publications, researching and looking in publications for any coverage of the
brands, creating clippings and sending them out to clients (current)
• Assisting stylist Anders Solvsten Thomsen in a shoot for Russian Interview magazine (07. 2015)
• Working backstage as a dresser at KTZ show SS16 show during LCM (06. 2015)
• Nominated for the Graduate Fashion Week Fashion Styling & Creative Direction Award (05. 2015)
• Published in After Nyne Magazine (UK) (05. 2015)
• Finalist for Harrods Magazine ‘Star of Tomorrow’ Styling Competition (04. 2015)
• Gained a chance to present my project about Carnaby in professional pitch to Shaftesbury PLC
(03. 2015)
• Published in Vulcan Online Magazine (IT) (11. 2014)
• Designing with a team visual merchandising concept for Domingo Communication Showroom in
Milan (06. 2014)
• Was published in Confess Fashion Online Magazine (LV) and Haunt Magazine (UK) (05. 2014)
• Together with team made a fashion film using milliners Piers Atkinsons hats (09. - 12. 2013)
• Intern at Picnic Production agency for designers Mary Katrantzou and Peter Pilotto at LFW.
Working backstage and do last minute checks (09. 2013)
• Styling project for Dr. Martens A/W-12 collection. Group work of 4 I was responsible for selecting
clothes and model (11. 2012)
WORK EXPERIENCE:
Jul. 2015- present, working in Russell & Bromley , sales consultant, part time
Job responsibilities: working in women and men departments, consulting clients as a stylist.
Jun. - Sep. 2013 worked in ‘Izdevniecība Rīgas Viļņi’ (Publishing House) at OK! Magazine Latvian
edition, Latvia, stylist, making trend reports.
Job responsibilities: making fashion shoots for the magazine with public figures in Latvia to show
SS13 fashion trends. I chose the trend and created a narrative, selected the clothes, organised the
shoot, edited pictures and wrote the reports.
T: 0754 439 4564
E: elvija.vitola@gmail.com
W: elvijavitola.com