Fiammetta Pasqualis
I am a Senior Fabric & Leather Developer with a great passion for innovation, sustainability and technological progress, both in the fabric, leather, and fashion product field, both in others industrial ones. Gaining new experiences is the characteristic that has always stimulated my work and personal path and curiosity is the vector that guides me in the research process, an essential skill of my work. The roles I have held have always been within the Creative team to better develop collections of different brands, trying to achieve a good balance between hight style products, materials and price points. I love working in a dynamic and multicultural environment, already knowing the high level results that can be obtained with this approach. I am a result-oriented and proactive person with an attitude for continuous improvement.
- Manage all woven/knitted fabrics and leather, with yarn dyed, printed, embroidered and technical developments, for OTW and RTW of MW & WW for Main, Kid and Black Label collections (Todd Snyder collab). - Propose seasonal fabric & leather novelties to the Head Designers in terms of new commercial, technical and more fashion fabrics and leather, in line with the collection concept and the company brief. - Work closely with the Design, Merchandising, Product Development, and Quality/Production teams to ensure we meet company targets and standards. - Maintain strong relationships with fabric mills by attending international fairs and developing Brand-New qualities, while negotiating lead times and prices. - Request to test all the fabric qualities to the mills, to ensure they meet company standards and work with the suppliers to improve any discrepancies already for sampling in order to avoid bulk issues. - Manage 2 people inside our R&D Team, a Junior R&D and an Intern.
- Manage all woven, printed and embroidered fabric developments for OTW and RTW of MW & WW for Main, Kid and Genius Collections (Alyx, Fragment, 1952 Man&Woman, Grenoble). - Propose seasonal fabrics’ novelties to the Head Designers in terms of printing and finishing techniques and processes, in line with the collection concept and the company brief. - Work closely with the Design, Merchandising, Product Development, and Quality/Production teams to ensure we meet company targets and timelines. - Maintain strong relationships with European and foreign fabric mills, developing the brand’s own qualities and regularly negotiating lead times and prices. - Test all fabric qualities to ensure they meet company standards and work with the fabric’s mills to improve any discrepancies already for sampling. - Attend fabric fairs to ensure the company is working to the best potential with each supplier and research for new ones. - Input all fabric data into the PLM managing program.
- Fabrics design and development of commissioned projects (Dimorestudio, Versace). - Manage sampling and production of fabric developments in the different projects. - Textile research of materials and color palette. - Tech pack & Tech sheet of the fabrics and Rendering project’s developments
- Menswear outerwear’s designer. - Knitwear & woven fabrics’ graphic designer. - Fabrics & color palette research. - Men & Women's outerwear and fur trend research. - Fabrics and colors archive.
- Responsible of the Art Gallery activities during the opening hours. - Customer's guide of the exhibitions in progress. - Sales manager of exhibited works.
- Manage the development and advancement of the collection samples in terms of fabrics, finishes, accessories and garment makers. - Collections color folders development. - Fabrics and furs archive. - Creation of the garment’s DIBA in the Citrix managing program.
Web graphics // Garment's technical drawings // cc creations and fabric research for Milano Unica Trends // Sample orders