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Angela Roman Balbuena

Designer Bijoux | Jewellery | Accessories Designer | Illustrator
About

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_/

Previous Brands
PDPAOLA Jewelry
Carolina Herrera
Facet Sustainable Jewellery
Alhaja Cult Store
Jagger Studio
Centro Universitario San Isidoro
EXTRAMACIO BARCELONA SL
Patricia Bazarot
MOTORETA Moda Infantil S.L.
Anel Yaos
Work Experience
Jewelry Design Manager
Dec ‘24 -
PDPAOLA Jewelry

Jewelry Designer
Jan ‘24 - Dec ‘24
PDPAOLA Jewelry

Designing demi-fine and fine jewellery collections from concept to completion.

Jewelry Designer CH Carolina Herrera
Feb ‘22 - Jan ‘24
Carolina Herrera

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 Jewelry Designer
Sep ‘21 - Feb ‘22
Facet Sustainable Jewellery

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.

Jewelry Designer
May ‘18 - Apr ‘20
Alhaja Cult Store

• 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.

Jewelry | Accessories Designer
Apr ‘18 - Apr ‘20
Jagger Studio

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.

Fashion Design Lecturer
Sep ‘17 - Feb ‘18
Centro Universitario San Isidoro

Trend forecasting and concept development section within the subject "Fashion Design Project III" in the last year of the Fashion Design BA program.

Fashion | Textile Print Designer
Nov ‘16 - Jan ‘18
EXTRAMACIO BARCELONA SL

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.

Fashion Designer
Jul ‘16 - Oct ‘16
Patricia Bazarot

• 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.

Design and Product Development Intern
Feb ‘16 - May ‘16
MOTORETA Moda Infantil S.L.

• Technical sheets. • Pattern making and cutting. • Samples reception.

Fashion Design Assistant
Jun ‘14 - Sep ‘14
Anel Yaos

Languages
English - Work Proficiency
Italian - Work Proficiency
Spanish - Native
Education & Training
Istituto Marangoni
‘20 - ‘21
Fine Jewellery Design Master
Centro Universitario San Isidoro
‘12 - ‘16
Bachelor of Arts - BA (Hons) Fashion Design 240 ECTS
Barcelona, Spain