About me
A creative person that has excelled in each employment role. As a recent graduate with a first class honours degree in fashion studies, my work at Bridal Boutique, Pretty Panache enabled me to have first hand experience of designing a capsule bridal range, pattern making/cutting and alterations as well as my degree and various external design projects this enabled me to have specific design experience but also valuable and transferable skill-set in this fast-paced and competitive industry.
During my fashion knitwear course at Nottingham Trent University and my fashion studies course at the University of Lincoln I undertook a wide range of design projects including external national design projects of which I became a finalist in three competitions. Utilising excellent design, colour and illustration skills.
Looking to secure a position within a leading fashion company that allows growth where I can start immediately and develop a long and successful career.
Projects
- 21st Century Self Sufficiency : The Good Life21st Century Self Sufficiency : The Good Life. Below is a selection of images from my Degree collection. The collection was a visual expression to think about the typical "Good Life" of being self sufficient and growing fruit and vegetables and using natural dyes for fabric, juxtaposed against the 21st Century looking at Laser cutting, Laser Engraving, Devore, Screen printing, digital printing and being primarily focused on natural fibres and minimal waste. The fabric choices, colours patterns and textures organically developed from an afternoon of mushroom foraging. The silk velvet devore dress was inspired from mushroom spores that when left on paper left a luscious thick velvety texture an exact replica of the mushroom gills. The collection is designed to be Trans-seasonal and layered up or down season dependant.
Work history
Sales AssistantHarrods
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The main aspect of this role was to focus on customer service and to develop a truly professional service.
Product Role
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My recent role based at Topshop flagship store at Princes Street Edinburgh, was a product and
replenishment role, my duties and expectations included having extensive Brand knowledge. To work with enthusiasm and pace with daily tasks and still maintain a focus on customer service alongside my daily
duties.This role required me to possess the ability to react quickly to changing situations and on occasion styling mannequins or installing a new window launch. I was involved in visual merchandising daily by
placing new lines in store to look aesthetically pleasing in trends and look at best/worst sellers to analyse weekly figures and to increase sales. I used my strong communication skills to communicate key Brand
information to the Visual and wider store teams and maintained excellent organisation and project
management skills with the ability to multi-task each day.
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Skills
- Fashion
- Marketing PR
- Print Design
- Retail
- Design
- Excel
- Illustrator
- Indesign
- Photoshop
- Bridal
- Communicating
- Seamstress
Education
Fashion Studies
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This course provided me a broad-based understanding of fashion and clothing industries. I studied a wide range of fashion disciplines including the process of design, CAD, tech drawings, pattern cutting, millinery, mood boards, trend research, illustration, sourcing fabrics and trims and presenting. Which provided
practical knowledge to apply to creative and conceptual thinking and applying this knowledge to commercial ranges. This included attending GFW and completing several external national competitions for George Asda, DFS and Giles Deacon, The Design Museum and Urban Outfitters. This resulted in me being a
finalist for DFS and Giles Deacon design competition and winning the Design Museum , in which I
designed a trans-seasonal shoe encompassing the ‘best of British’. During my time at University of Lincoln I also gained funding via a bursary for my exploration of colour and using natural dyes for my degree
collection from the society of dyers and colourists. I also won funding from Enterprise-inc and undertook workshops on business.
Fashion Knitwear Design
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This course was focused on knitwear design and gave a great grounding on understanding a different aspect of womenswear. Also successfully completing group projects, presentations, using knitting machines and technically gaining a good knowledge of construction within knitwear garments.