Sara Marini
With extensive experience designing and developing footwear collections for brands like Ann Demeulemeester, Calvin Klein, and Diesel, I excel in product development, quality control, and trend research. I thrive in fast-paced retail environments, ensuring high standards, timely deliveries, and exceptional customer service. Fluent in English and Italian.
I’m grateful to share that I have taken on a new position as a lecturer for the Master in Luxury Accessories Design & Management at Marangoni Firenze. Thank you to the wonderful team and for their support!
footwear/accessories designer and product developer. I can create and oversee the entire product development process, from crafting the initial creative mood board and sketches to building the complete collection. I design all styles while considering merchandising requirements, conducting color and material research. Additionally, I manage factory communication and, if needed, I can identify new manufacturers. I excel in translating the brand's DNA and integrating it with my expertise."
Creating mood boards, designing collections tailored to merchandising requirements, researching materials and color schemes, and innovating new shoe shapes. Developing new last and heel designs. Daily follow-up on samples and production. Selecting the best suppliers for our product. Proposing color variations, accessories, and heel options. Conducting quality control before delivering the production
After receiving the sketches and design directions for bags and shoes from the creative director, I create tech sheets to send to the factory. I select factories that are more suitable for our product and propose materials following current trends and the needs of the creative director. I follow up daily on the samples and production, creating the first last, and upper and correcting them to ensure they meet the expectations of my supervisor. I ensure that samples and production are on time, considering the company schedule. fittings with my supervisor, order materials and components, negotiate prices, source packaging, conduct quality control on all production, and organize shipment to the logistics center
Creating mood boards, designing collections tailored to merchandising requirements, researching materials and color schemes, and innovating new shoe shapes. Daily follow-up of samples and production. Choosing the best supplier for our product. Proposing color variations, accessories, heels. Quality control before delivering the production.
Blah is a brand primarily focused on sneakers. We specialize in creating mood boards, designing collections tailored to merchandising requirements, researching materials and color schemes, and innovating new shoe shapes. This includes developing new sole and upper designs. We ensure daily follow-up on samples and production, carefully selecting the best suppliers for our products. Additionally, we propose various color variations, accessories, lace, and soles. innersole....
-Design Male/female, shoes and accessories, creating orginal styles that follow well established fashion trends, and respect the brand identity, and for the fashion show -Develop the line of the shoes:choose and divelop new last, heels,molds and corrections uppers -confer with all management executive and creative director in order to discuss design ideas. -Direct and coordinate workers involved in drawings and develop of sample -Activity in research new or used items:shoes, fabrics...
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