Womenswear Designer

• Feb 2018 - Present

Multi-product design role; currently responsible for the design and development of the womenswear range across all product categories.Working in a fast-paced, small design team has enabled me to have complete ownership of my designs from start to finish. It has also given me the opportunity to take on more responsibility and broaden my design skills to include menswear, childrenswear, print and graphic design. - Manage critical path from initial concept through to production, co-ordinating overlapping wholesale and retail seasons (including additional SMU ranges for key accounts such as Go Outdoors and Blacks). - Conduct extensive inspirational, colour, trend and competitor research. Produce and present informative reports where required. - Create themes/concepts for each season and develop mood, colour, print and graphic inspiration boards.- Use Adobe Illustrator to draw and render technical CAD sketches plus supporting print/graphics/knitwear patterns/embroidery and trim/packaging artworks where required. - Work closely with the buying, merchandising and marketing teams to ensure that all key product and pricing requirements are met, and in-line with company targets. - Design within commercial constraints whilst ensuring the development of garment details, trims, finishes and fabric washes remain on trend and in keeping with the brand’s ‘lifestyle’ attributes. - Confident and practised in giving professional product presentations to sales managers, top management, Company Directors and the Board of Investors. Lead and present the new ranges to the sales team at the collection launch presentation. - Attend and lead fit sessions, working closely with garment technicians. - Maintain robust working relationships with all suppliers and have detailed understanding of their capabilities through factory visits within Europe and the Far East. Show less

Assistant Designer

• Feb 2016 - Feb 2018

Creative Technical Product Development, BOSS Sportswear (Knitwear Internship)

• Jan 2014 - Aug 2014

Creative and technical development, covering all elements from design sketch to production release. Ability to communicate clearly and work collaboratively in an international office with many teams and interfaces including designers, production management, vendors, suppliers, sales and brand management. Researched and developed knitted structures and sourced yarns to meet design briefs. Extended my knowledge of knitted structures and programming for STOLL and SHIMA SEIKI machines. Show less

Knitwear Design Assistant (Internship)

• Jun 2013 - Dec 2013

Highly creative, fast-paced knitting swatch-studio placement, producing a broad range of designs for the main studio collection and swatches for the trend forum at SPINEXPO in New York and Shanghai. Worked with colour, pattern, stitch and yarn combinations using a range of gauges on Dubied and Domestic machines. Multi-tasking was key, as projects varied from swatch-knitting, knitting accessory/novelty products, and trend design work. Increased commercial awareness as I designed womenswear, menswear, childrens collections and novelty items. Show less

Womenswear and Accessories Design (Internship)

• Jun 2011 - Sep 2011

Design placement at Sri Lanka’s leading hand-loom textile company, BAREFOOT. All designs for garments and bags went into production as a new collection in October 2011. Design placement at Sri Lanka’s leading hand-loom textile company, BAREFOOT. All designs for garments and bags went into production as a new collection in October 2011.

Volunteer

• Apr 2011 - May 2011

Teaching English to children aged 3-18. Involved planning lessons and teaching large classes. Teaching English to children aged 3-18. Involved planning lessons and teaching large classes.