With extensive luxury retail experience, I excel in sustainable fabric sourcing and customer satisfaction enhancement. My adaptability to dynamic retail environments and fluency in English, Greek, and French enable me to deliver exceptional service and support sales growth effectively.
• Fabric research and development for fabric and trims across commercial collections and capsules • Sourcing of jersey and woven across all Mens lines within strict margin price targets • Coordination of external platform teams of sourcing within Europe, Asia and United States • Managing print, jacquard, embroidery special logo badges and tapes for commercial mens lines • Generating materials on PLM, inserting all data information for cross-functional teams • Managing critical path to target and meet deadlines
• Fabric and trims sourcing, development for all collections Pre-collection, Runway, Capsules, VIP • Managing critical path and deadlines for all raw materials in order to ensure collection delivery • Managing budgets, invoicing and raising PO’s on internal system to process payments • Placing orders for sampling across fabrics and trims for prototype and sampling stage • Developing prints, embroidery, jacquards and special techniques based on the theme of the collections • Accessories, trims and hardware sourcing and development according to price targets • Managing sustainability targets for each collection 70-80% fabric selection eco friendly • Zedonk data input of all raw materials and collections, production handover and overseeing
- Sourcing and development of fabrics for Pre-Collection, Runway and Capsules/Special projects - Adhering the critical path for every season making sure lead times are respected - Managing deadlines and delivery dates according to the critical path - Managing the budget and achieving target prices as requested for all collections - Overseeing and coordinating all orders and purchasing for sampling - Collecting all technical information and data of materials - Sourcing and researching recycled and sustainable fabric options - Developing jacquards, lace, prints, and special techniques based on the brief - Resolving any technical issues prior to production
- Sourcing and development based on the brief of the collections across outerwear, leather, jersey, tailoring, shirting and prints. Developing average 600 fabrics per season in colour and design. - Purchasing orders for all collections, calculating quantities and ensuring budget is respected - Monitoring invoicing and raising PO’s (SAP), coordinating shipments. Material input on PLM - Managing fabric library, ensure seasonal fabrics are archived, keep fabric boards and rails updated - Developing and launching strike offs for prints and jacquards in collaboration with the textile team - Managing all VIP projects & Capsule collections for Menswear - Adhere the critical path, monitoring delivery dates in order to meet deadlines
Responsible for the sourcing, development and purchasing all raw materials, for fabrics and trims. Coordinating all the purchasing of the materials and processes such as dyeing, pleating, print and embroidery development. Assisting on the development of seasonal lab dips strike offs and print trials. Developing concepts for trims, textiles and fabric print bases. Being the main link between design atelier and product development for all materials. Communicating with mills and suppliers for orders prices minimums and stock information. Managing all mills and suppliers meeting deadlines for all orders. Following budget reports according to critical path. Admin duties, data input, collating all prices for production costing providing all information for production handover. Codifying all raw materials and colours.Testing the technology of each material, solving any problems for sampling development and production. Archiving and documenting all the raw materials developed and sourced.
• Working on a print studio executing strike offs and experimenting several print techniques. • Design & engineer prints according to the theme of the collection • Creating research mood boards and digital designs and patterns • Executing hand embroidery and digital CAD designs • Pattern cutting and hand embroidery
Part of the atelier team working on the printed and digital magazine. Building research, mood boards and creating illustrations for the magazine.
User Experience Design (UX) • Photoshop • Illustrator • InDesign • Content Management System (CMS) • Creative Proposals • Fonts and Logo design • Creative Proposals • Presentations