About Sarah

Sarah Tinks Cross is a personal style expert, wardrobe management extraordinaire, author and founder of MYVOS® aka My Very Own Stylist.

She has one mission:

To elevate mood just by opening your Wardrobe door. Sarah’s methods include her signature ‘15-Item Formula’, ‘Level-Dressing’, and clever garment alterations that turn standard off-the-peg size garments into real body shape clothing.

Sarah’s methods include her signature ‘15-Item Formula’, ‘Level-Dressing’, and clever garment alterations that turn standard off-the-peg size garments into real body shape clothing.

She is passionate about helping women to wear their best look and feel confident every day, and for any occasion. Her knowledge of fabrics and fit, coupled with her expertise to match clothing style to individual personalities, and align garment type to lifestyle, makes Sarah’s ‘What to Wear’ methods go beyond just looking good. She teaches women how to make stylish clothing choices that evolve with body shape changes and life’s turbulations, using the power of clothes to elevate well-being.

Sarah’s professional love affair with clothing began in1994 as a fashion graduate working her way up from junior pattern cutter to senior designer in London fashion houses, before switching career to become the lead Lecturer of Fashion & Clothing at Gloucestershire
College. During her decade of lecturing Sarah was constantly asked by friends, family, and anyone who crossed her path, for wardrobe advise and for her garment alteration skillset. In 2012 Sarah added Personal Colour Analysis to her repertoire and was awarded ‘Best Image Consultant New Comer 2013’ by the international Image Consultancy, Colour Me Beautiful. In late 2019 MYVOS® aka
My Very Own Stylist, was founded after Sarah won funding for her innovation in Sustainable Wardrobe Editing Services & and teachings in sourcing high quality clothing at budget conscious prices.

A regular on local BBC radio channels and author of ‘2nd SKIN, How to Manage Your Clothes & Be Stylish for a Lifetime’, Sarah has helped hundreds of women to use the power of clothes to elevate their mood just by opening their Wardrobe door.

Personal style runs through Sarah’s veins. The youngest of 3 siblings, Sarah was raised by her single mum, in a bustling west country seaside town. As a child she spent hours watching her mum at the sewing machine making clothes and re-styling her older sister’s hand-me-downs. Stepping out in bespoke clothes stayed with Sarah as it became her norm to tweak with pieces to make them unique as well as the perfect fit. The best way to remain on trend in those days was watching ‘The Clothes Show’ on TV aired at Sunday teatime. During college she bought any garment with a designer label in it from thrift shops, and was first off the blocks to buy, wear, and re-sell pre-loved designer clothes on eBay.

When she’s not helping others feel the joy of clothes, Sarah retreats back to the coast and sails the seas with her husband Ade, as well as spending family time with their grown-up children.