Fashion Designer / Developer
Chesham, United Kingdom
PERSONAL PROFILE: A highly competent fashion, swim and apparel clothing designer who is attentive to product briefs and builds strong capsule designs using research from future trends in colour and textile application. Her skills developing her own designs are enhanced by the strong working relationships she has with factories in Eastern Europe, Hong Kong and China. She specialises in repeat prints, knitwear and tactile embroidered embellishments for all ages of clothing and accessories. Her strong handwriting and ability for technically skilled tasks is combined with excellent interpersonal skills. SKILLS: Boys and Girls Swimwear • sourcing, researcher, ...designer, developer and marketing. •
Baby / Infant
wear design - experience across girls’ and boys’
wear. • Children’s
wear... design - experience across girls’ and boys’ wear. • Ladies wear design - experience across knitwear, jersey, soft separates outerwear and swimwear. • Men’s - License character graphics, designing underwear and sleepwear. • PC and Apple Mac literate • confident using computers and learning new programs to a high level in a short space of time; extensive knowledge of a range of programs: - Creative Suite / Illustrator CS4 / Photoshop CS4 / CorelDraw / Painter / Easy Weave / Easy Knit / Microsoft Office Suite / Entourage / Web-searching. • Fabrication • an extensive knowledge of knitwear techniques, jersey, woven and organic fabrications. • Baby and toddler Graphics - placement and all over repeat prints, tactile appliqué and embroidery. • Boys and Girls Graphics - placement and all over repeat prints, tactile appliqué and embroidery. • Product specifications and briefs Responsible for developing all designs to EN71 standard. Selecting the appropriate manufacturer, using my extensive knowledge of factories’ abilities for clothing and accessories. • Trend research - WGSN, comparative and directional shopping, magazines and trade shows. • Design portfolio - Design Capsules for swimwear, clothing and accessories. - 3D products (e.g. toys to accompany clothing ranges to increase profit margins, educational toys to stimulate a baby’s motor skills.) • Branding - designing and styling packaging / page layouts for promotional innovation to product presentation. Skills: Mac OS X
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