I'm a very curious individual always open to growth, new challenges and opportunities. I've started my career through garment design and it jumped up to textile print, accessories and jewelry design in a very organic way. I love to mix all these worlds in my journey to create unique, meaningful, functional and structured projects. Skills include: Fine Jewellery Design / Costume Jewelry /Trend Forecasting / Accessories Design / Fashion Jewelry Design / Fashion illustration / Fashion Design / Surface Textile Design / Concept Development Check my portfolio at https://www.behance.net/angelaroman and https://www.instagram.com/angelaroman_/
Designing demi-fine and fine jewellery collections from concept to completion.
Responsible for the design of the costume jewelry collections for Carolina Herrera’s lifestyle line, CH Carolina Herrera, the role activities included: • Presenting trends research and subsequently creative proposals to other teams including Management, Buying, and Commercial leadership, and collaborating across departments. • Identifying and executing new product opportunities as they emerge in the market, anticipating customer's needs. • Using relevant sales data and insights to design commercially relevant, fashion-forward ranges for the different market divisions. • Travels for current trends catching, attending international fairs and trade shows, and suppliers sourcing. • Presentation of many creative ideas as possible aligned to the trends in the luxury market. • Day-to-day Samples follow-up together with suppliers and the technical office team, ensuring design, quality, deadlines, and price targets are respected. • Samples validation for production.
Fine jewellery Design for different targets, from modern to high-end jewellery for both large and small companies in different markets around the world: • To undertake appropriate research, including competition analysis, producing trend reports and presentations, to ensure a high level of awareness of current and emerging trends and ‘must have’ products. • Work closely with Design Director and product development department (onsite) on all matters relating to collections. • Manage individual projects from different targets simultaneously, from initial research to translating ideas visually through hand drawing and computer-based sketches, to correction of cads and physical samples of jewellery pieces, and monitoring the follow-up with the product development team, ensuring quality, deadlines and prices. Facet Barcelona is an international leader in the design, manufacture and distribution of high-quality jewellery. With more than 30 years of experience, delivers classic and trendy jewellery pieces to the highest standards of quality.
• Designing and planning the jewelry collection • Hand and digital drawing sketches of the jewelry pieces for detailed technical packs. • Digital illustration for product storytelling • Trend forecasting and research of materials. • Samples development follow-up with suppliers.
Jagger is a design studio based in Spain that offers fashion accessories collections design and consulting services for factories and retailers worldwide. • Fashion jewelry and soft accessories design for worldwide renowned high street retailers. • Trend forecasting to support overseas suppliers in its accessories collection developments. • Textile print design for soft accessories. • Creation and updating of collections database. • Samples follow up with suppliers assuring the on-time best final product.
Trend forecasting and concept development section within the subject "Fashion Design Project III" in the last year of the Fashion Design BA program.
Extramacio is a company specializing in clothing production for Men, Women, and Children based in north Portugal. As a fashion and textile designer, I participated in the creation of innovative styles to offer our clients a full service from creative and commercial designed collections to full production development. • Women and kidswear designer for high street retailers. • Trend forecasting and competitors research to ensure our designs are in line with market leaders and current trends. • Textile print and embroidery design (all over and positional developments). • Technical sheets both for prints and garments, trend and materials research, and sample development follow-up. • Visits to factories (Portugal) to check over collection developments onsite.
• Design and planning of the collection showcased at SIMOF (Salón Internacional de la Moda Flamenca) 2017 • Fashion design for bridal and nightgown looks. • Pattern making; cutting, assembly, and textile finishing.
• Technical sheets. • Pattern making and cutting. • Samples reception.