Work history
Assistant
- Full Time
Working on the shop floor, preparing fabric sample books and sample sheets for customers. Serving customers, showing them fabrics for their criteria.
Preparing and finishing trimmings and ribbons.
Building up the digital client database.
Designer & Maker
- Full Time
Self Employed - Founder
Start-up
Millinery, bespoke hat design, headpieces, bridal and mens' collections.
Breaking the boundaries between fashion and sculpture and combining them to make wearable pieces.
New collections every season.
Assisted in fashion photo shoots where my headpieces were being using.
Pulled headpieces for photo shoots to fit the theme.
Personal shopping and styling.
Admin tasks, accounts and website.
www.elianesarah.com
Skills
- Fashion
- Millinery
- Problem Solving
- Styling
- Textile Design
- Excel
- Indesign
- Office
- Photoshop
- Visual Merchandising
- Multi-tasking
- Colour
- Accessory Design
- Personal Shopping
Education
HNC Millinery
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A one year intensive course learning all the fundamentals of millinery production and business.
Interned at Noel Stewart during the course.
Textile Design (weave
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BA (hons) Textile Design