Meet the Liverpool stylists on the Sunday Times 'must know' list for 2025

Two Liverpool-based stylists are using their experience working with top fashion magazines and brands to help women edit their wardrobes at home.

Amy Hanson-Bevan and Miriam Murphy launched Get Dressed, North West in January last year and have just featured in the Sunday Times Style’s ‘personal stylists to know.’

The pair met through mutual friends and found they had a shared love of shopping and a passion for helping people to feel more confident about their own style.

Both women had recently returned to Liverpool – Amy from living and working in London for over a decade, and Miriam after 10 years in Dubai – when they decided to combine their skills to start a business.

Amy explains:

“I had my daughter at the end of 2019 and we moved up from London at the end of 2020 and Miriam had worked in Flannels then lived in Dubai for 10 years.

“We’re both very entrepreneurial and we had all this knowledge between us so we thought it would be a great idea to share that.

Most of 36-year-old Amy’s career in fashion has been as a stylist for magazines including Glamour and Stylist, working on photoshoots in the UK, New York and LA, and with presenter and noughties It Girl Alexa Chung’s stylist.

“When they know what I do people often say to me, ‘I’d love you to come and look in my wardrobe’ so this is about putting what I’ve learned working in magazines into practice,” she adds.

The idea of having a personal shopper can seem daunting if you’re not a celebrity, which is why the two women are keen to make Get Dressed, North West as accessible and friendly as possible.

“People might have the impression that we’re going to be these scary personalities telling them off but we’re actually here to empower women.

“We’re both at different stages in life; I’ve got a 5-year-old, and Miriam is 51 and her boys are grown up, so we’re just real people and we see all kinds of different women – different sizes, shapes, ages.”

Amy and Miriam offer clients a choice of three different appointments: a wardrobe edit at home, where they ‘shop’ from someone’s existing wardrobe then fill in the gaps, shopping in town and online style boards for people short on time.

In the year since they launched, the wardrobe edit has proved to be the most popular and it’s helped women not only realise what they might want, but to look again at what they’ve already got.

“A lot of people have already got the good bits in their wardrobe but they just don’t know how to style it up or they don’t look at it the same way we would look at it,” says Amy.

“We might say, you’ve got that long-sleeve T-shirt, have you thought about layering it under that summer dress?’ and straight away you’ve got a new outfit.

“Women often want this capsule wardrobe, it’s just knowing what to have in it, so we go through their wardrobe and say, ‘you’ve already got that, you don’t need to buy it, you can give it a new life’. It’s just a case of thinking differently about your wardrobe.”

Amy and Miriam, founders of Get Dressed North West

The business partners think about sustainability, so they’ll encourage women to look beyond the high street too.

“I rent out my wardrobe, I sell a lot through Vinted and I’ll go to charity shops just to see what I can find, so we’ll introduce some clients to that.

“Because we don’t work on commission we’re not going to be sending people to specific shops to buy things. We’re professional shoppers, so we know where to shop, where to find the right-fitting jeans or different brands, and I love showing people how they can get a bargain.”

Using their stylist service is like taking a mate shopping only better, says Amy.

“Lots of women don’t have that friend they can shop with or if they do, they’re not necessarily the best person. We’re quite honest but in a fun way and we’re not there to sell them anything.

“We look at where people are in their lives, embrace that and try to make them feel better about themselves.

“We can all be our own worst enemies, so we just need to have the confidence and have someone to say, ‘try this’ and if it looks wrong we’ll say so and try the next thing.”