With extensive experience in luxury footwear, I excel in customer service and product knowledge, working closely with Italian factories. Fluent in Italian and English, I adapt to diverse retail environments, ensuring exceptional service and sales proficiency in dynamic, fast-paced settings.
- Consulting for Women’s shoes as a designer and product manager. - Creating a New Brand Identity, focusing on the Brand’s codes. - Working directly with Italian factories and suppliers. - Research of new suppliers and factories following the costs and Brand Identity. - Trend research, designing lasts, heel, hardware, etc. - Follow all the steps from sketching to final sample editing. - Production quality control.
- Consulting for Women's shoes as a designer and product manager. - Working directly with Italian factories and with the Art Direction. - Trend research, designing lasts, heels, hardware, etc. - Supplier research. - Follow all the steps from sketching to final sample editing.
Conference: “I created my Brand: stories of emerging designers.”
Creative Director, Founder, and Owner of Andrea Mondin, a women's luxury shoe firm. -special collaboration: Nobilis Paris, Métaphores Paris, Pierre Frey, Colefax, and Fowler.
Teacher Footwear Design. Summer campus: “Luxury shoes design.”
Conference: “Come nasce una scarpa.”
Head of Design Versus Versace. Responsible for designing and developing women's / men's footwear, bags, belts, s.l.g. main/show. - Responsible for the Design team - Direct collaboration with Donatella Versace, Stylist, Apparel team and Merchandising. - Trends, Product research, and materials: vintage, samples, trends. - Development and follow-up: mood board, input, color palettes. - Technical drawings for suppliers: lasts, heels, hardware. - Samples control and following fitting. Manufacturer follow-up and direct editing. - Direct collaboration with Anthony Vaccarello for Versus Versace. Show and main collection. - Direct collaboration with Christopher Kane for SS14 Versus Versace. Show: as women handbags, shoes, belts, bijoux designer and product manager. - Design of women’s footwear for Versace, main collection.
Pre, Main, Show collections designer for Women’s shoes and belts. - Direct collaboration with the art director, apparel team, and merchandising. - Trends, Product, and materials research: vintage, samples, trends. - Design of lasts, heels, hardware. - Direct collaboration with the Company production center Incisa Val D’Arno. - Following sampling, development, and fitting.
- Consulting for the license Zanellato Group as well as designing women’s and man’s bags. - Researching of material and trend.
- Designer intern for Just Cavalli and First Line. - Assisting in the creation of the Collection and Show.