I bring extensive experience in product management and design for luxury, premium, and fast fashion brands. Skilled in material sourcing, supplier coordination, and technical development, I thrive in dynamic retail environments and am Italian native, fluent in English, German, and Spanish, conversational French.
Technical product development, material sourcing, leather, accessories and trim sourcing; Sourcing and coordinating suppliers and manufacturers allover Europe, India and Far East; Technical product improvement and follow up all sampling steps to final quality control and pre-production engineering; Ricerca e coordinameno fornitori/produttori;
Development creative concepts of accessories collection of handbags, soft items and small accessories goods. - Creation mood seasonal mood boards and briefing to design and sourcing team; - Briefing to suppliers on materials and key sourcing; - Development and coordination of sampling according to category management and sales feedback; - optimization of collection and follow up prototypes; - correction and tecnical improvement of product; - pre prodution quality check and engineering
Design, development, creative input on handbags, accessories and leather goods. - Creative direction; - Trend and color search, for seasonal key moods; - Material sourcing and development; - Sketching and devleopment of prototypes; - Technical development of sampling and coordination of manufacturers; - Sales samples final technical check and product engineering; - Price check and final collection set up. Collaboration with several brands and diverse products.
Product development for Handbags and Accessories on behalf of several brands: Jimmy Choo, Oscar de la Renta, Roberto Cavalli, Cathernie Malandrino, Halston and others. _ Technical development and follow up of prototype and samples; _ Sourcing of materials, trims according to design and product management briefing; _ Sourcing of producers and manufacturers to fit the requirements of skils and workmanship requested for the development of collections; - Suppliers coordination and material orders follow up according to given timing to collection deadlines; _ Quality check on materials, trims and hardware, improvement and final engineering for pre-production; _ Final set up of pricepoints and price handling with suppliers.
Collaboration with design studio for develompent handbags (man /woman) and accessories collections. Design, material sourcing and product development for some brands: Bulgari, Brioni, Wako, Lerre, Acqua di Parma
Product manager of hardware and apparel accessories for Tommy Hilfiger. Follow up all accessories development and production for the collections produced in Italy and East Europe.
Collaboration as designer on several collections of handbags, jewels, textile. - Research of fashion trends; - Seasonal moods, highlights, colours; - Materials and supplier sourcing; - Sampling follow up and quality control on pre-production items; - Product engineering. Collaboration with several brands: Luana _ Enrico Coveri _ You Young