Assistant Designer & Product Developer

• May 2022 - Present

Assistant Jersey Designer

• Nov 2020 - May 2022

Assistant Womenswear Designer

• Aug 2019 - Aug 2020

Worked alongside the Senior Womenswear Designer on Debenham’s most profitable brand ‘Principles’ on their ‘Principles Softs Team’ from SS20 ranges to the start of SS21 ranges; responsibilities listed below. • Research Development; o Mood boards from trend analysis, fashion week reviews (including street style) with other assistant designers from other brands including Jenny Packham, Kley & Jasper Conran to begin the season. o Key items pages; Photoshop documents that showed all catwalk/street style outfits with repetitive features; ‘Volume Sleeve’, ‘Diana Blazer’, ‘Colour: Pastel Blue’, to show what was trending and what was a continuation from the last season. o Comparative shop reports; A document produced fortnightly showing what companies such as; NEXT, Topshop & Kooples, had in the shop floor/online, what price points they had to offer & what we had/were missing. • Design Development; o Designing from scratch: Hand drawn designs & digital designs o CADing ALL designs (including the Senior Designer’s designs) on Illustrator o Technical Flats: Putting designs into technical flats format ready to be sent to suppliers. o Attending Fits; checking the garments looked like the design and making changes with the production team if necessary. • In-House Meetings with Senior Staff; o Including Research, Initial Design, Fits, Range Plan and Sign off Meetings. o Presenting digital mood boards, fabric boards, garment samples, range plans, and final fit photos to the Head of Womenswear & Head of Design o Note-taking whilst my team were presenting o Producing long In-design documents with all this information for sign off meetings. • Landed Suppliers Meetings; o Responsible for communicating the initial ideas we had for design & fabrics for that season o Pulling fabrics of interest to present to Senior Designer and Senior Buyer o Briefing technical flats to suppliers via email, video call and in person Show less

Graduate Fabric Work Placement

• May 2019 - Aug 2019

Customer Host

• Jan 2018 - Sep 2018

Production Runner- The Fashion Awards 2017

• Dec 2017 - Dec 2017

Womenswear Design Intern

• Jul 2017 - Dec 2017

• Photoshoots- helping designers and stylists on e-com shoots, campaign shoots and look-book shoots; steaming, styling, dressing models and utilising specialist equipment. • CAD- manipulating fabrics, patterns and designs on relevant Adobe software and editing quickly whilst the designers talk in meetings to help visualise design work. • Toiling and Beading Placement- placing fabrics for the most economical use, designed beading samples for Winter 17 collection, toiling cashmere samples ready for SMSs and PPs. • Joor- I have learnt how to manage Joor software, having responsibility for keeping line-sheets updated with relevant specs and fabric. • Helping out of hour at Bridal Shows and London Fashion Week preparation in order to make sure everything is completed to an exceptional standard. Show less

Production Runner- London Fashion Week & Festival 2017

• Sep 2017 - Sep 2017

STAFF ROLES The kind of tasks you might be asked to do may include but won't be limited to: • Setting up backstage areas • Setting up front of house areas • Ensuring the venue is tidy • Be sent off site to get extra equipment • Used for rehearsal/actor & model walk-through • Lay out crew catering/ backstage teams and model catering and supervise, keep it clean and tidy and looking fresh • Assisting both backstage and front of house teams • Aid to ensure that models are moved through hair and make-up • Distribute security passes • Manage pass lists • Check off everyone coming backstage- press, models, backstage teams Show less

Retail

• Jul 2012 - Apr 2013

Duties: Greeting and helping customers find out what they are looking for, working on tills, supervising changing areas, security, upselling certain garments and hitting sales targets. Skills: customer service Duties: Greeting and helping customers find out what they are looking for, working on tills, supervising changing areas, security, upselling certain garments and hitting sales targets. Skills: customer service