I am a hardworking womenswear and kidswear designer with over 5 years of experience working across design, production and merchandise across both luxury and wholesale fashion brands. I immerse myself in the culture around me, attending exhibitions and reading up on the latest trends to help influence my creative practice. My proudest experience was being selected as one of the best 25 designers at Graduate Fashion Week 2016 and having my design work featured in Vogue Italia Design Talents magazine issue. I seek to work as part of a creative team for a luxury fashion company with which I can grow and invest my skills and experience.
Assisting senior designers across womenswear, girlswear, softs woven and jersey accounts including smart casual, occasionwear, nightwear, beachwear and denims. Supplying to Joules, NEXT, Matalan, Tesco, Wehkamp, TOM TAILOR and Sophie Allport. - Creating CAD drawings, spec sheets and actioning samples - In charge of researching and designing trend boards, mood boards and global catwalk reports - Designing graphic placement motifs, novelty details and embroideries for girlswear and teenage girls - Conducting comp shops and creating reports to share with clients - Hand-sketching design ideas - Attending overseas client meetings - Creating fabric packs to send to clients and freelance designers - Maintaining an organised studio and steaming samples - Liaising with the company’s India office - Assisting senior designers with admin tasks
Working alongside merchandise, quality control and design teams daily: Whispering Smith - Updating and monitoring the critical path - Picking up and dropping off samples to clients - Communicating with international factories to chase up samples and solve any quality control issues - Approving lab dips, trims, strike offs and bulk swatches - Updating digital production track system with style information and prices - Merchandising the showroom - Managing post, stock taking and sending salesman samples to external suppliers - Pricing initial design samples - Preparing samples for sales meetings and photo shoots
Working directly with the company director for the luxury artisan accessories brand: - Assisting with photoshoots - Creating spec sheets - Updating product information on Shopify - Photoshopping promotional images for social media posts - Hand-sewing embellishments onto artisanal hats and bags - Sourcing fastenings and fabric - Stocktaking and preparing orders for customers
(With successful completion of internship was offered a short term paid position) Working directly with luxury womenswear brand's company director and senior designers: - Producing technical drawings and line sheets - Creating prints - Designing brand marketing presentations - Quality control checking garments - Updating product information, working out material consumption and producing Resort 18 line sheets using Zedonk software - Sourcing fabric swatches
Working directly with the luxury artisan brand designer Faustine Steinmetz & studio manager: - Fabric sourcing - Design development sketching - Creating research design inspiration boards - Producing production garments for S/S 15 - Working as part of a team to create hand-woven textiles using looms and hand-stitching garments. - Running errands