Highly motivated womenswear designer with proven track record designing for major high street brands and online retailers including Lipsy, Miss Selfridge, River Island, ASOS, Jaeger, Next, Marks and Spencer, Very, Amy Childs and Millie Mackintosh, with various press coverage in LOOK and Cosmopolitan UK magazines.
Designing across woven and jersey casual, formal, tailoring and going out departments over ten years. With extensive travel experience to Delhi, Mumbai and Hong Kong for factory visits and fabric sourcing, as well as trade show and research trips to Paris, Berlin and Madrid.
Through my previous design roles, I have established many good working relationships with fabric agents and trim suppliers which I can bring on board to help further your resources in offering a varied product to your unique customer. I have also worked closely with my pattern cutting, machinist and tech teams, helping to expand my knowledge of product development in these areas.
Available with immediate start. Please contact me for further information and examples of work.
Projects
Work history
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Freelance DesignerVery at Shop Direct
London, United KingdomFreelance
Currently freelancing for Very at Shop Direct on their womens woven department across casual and formalwear. Role includes researching new trends and design direction they set out, hand sketching designs for their approval and creating design packs with spec information to send on to their inhouse team and supplier base.
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DesignerBluenile Clothing
- London, United KingdomFull Time
A maternity cover role predominantly holding the Lipsy account across day dresses, separates, partywear, occasion, wholesale and international departments, with styles being included in the Abby Clancy collection. Other customers included ASOS tops, Miss Selfridge separates and petites. Responsible for sourcing new fabrics, prints and trims for my departments, holding meetings with customers along with sales and working with inhouse pattern cutters and machinists to develop samples. Manufacturing out of Romania.
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Skills
- Adobe Illustrator
- Adobe Photoshop
- Microsoft Office
- Pattern Cutting
- Hand Drawing
Education
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BA (Hons) FashionPlymouth College of Art and Design
- Plymouth, United Kingdom
A further year of study to gain my BA (Hons) certification.
This course included classes on design, pattern cutting, sewing and contextual studies.
This course concluded with a final dissertation on beauty ideals portrayed through media and a final collection to be shown at the end of year show and at Graduate Fashion Week in London.
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Foundation Fashion DegreePlymouth College of Art and Design
- Plymouth, United Kingdom
A two year course involving classes in design, pattern making, sewing, business studies, marketing and contextual studies. Each year concluded in a capsule collection and end of year show.
For both of these years I was elected as student representative for my course.