About me
I'm a dynamic and personable Fashion Designer (BA Hons Fashion Design Realisation and PG Cert in Fashion Technology) with a track record of working on team projects and independently, using my intuition and initiative to develop and progress ideas which are innovative, eye-catching and have a meaning to them that shows the thinking and importance of the message behind the design. Highly motivated, conscientious and used to work under pressure, I can respond to tight deadlines and longer projects with customer design development built in. I can also offer the benefits of customer-facing experience (2 years) from my work in the restaurant and hospitality industry.
Projects
- DARK DAYSProject taken from my portfolio. Looking at mental health threw the past and present. What treatments were available and the conditions of the asylums. Dark times for lost souls. Also looked at abandoned asylums for inspiration, experimenting with fabric manipulation for volume and texture. Silhouettes breaking out of the norm.
Work history
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assistant managerJinky’s
- Oakham, United KingdomFull Time
• Managing a team of 8 staff
• Organisational skills – Organising a team of people, delegating work to the staff, dealing with suppliers, paying stock suppliers on time, stock taking, ensuring the bar had enough products on show, cashing up.
• Designing and delivering management training, setting objectives, motivating staff
• Involved in staff recruitment including headhunting to ensure appropriate experience and skill set
• Identifying new and innovative products to maintain competitiveness
• Decision-making regarding stock and staff
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills – Delegating work to the staff, ordering stock from suppliers, stock taking and check list, signing off bills, rota for staff.
• Use of local suppliers as well as out of town suppliers. Built up a great rapport with the suppliers, ensuring the company was up-to-date with current trends and new up-and-coming drinks.
• Creating advertising material in response to changing demands throughout the year
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design assistantEasy rags
- Leicester, United KingdomFull Time
• Drafting patterns from scratch and cutting garments for sampling
• Liaising with buyers from various different companies – customer and supplier
• Grading garments from size 10 – 18
• Calculating costings per garment for pricing and lay plan
• Assisting Head Designer on the development of collections
• Sourcing new fabrics for trial and sampling
• Producing technical drawings for garments on Illustrator
• Collecting imagery and conducting research for mood boards
• Assisting Head Designer with the development collections on Photoshop and Illustrator
• Producing ‘look books’ on InDesign
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Skills
- Design
- Technical
- Fashion
- Drawing
- Photoshop
- Illustrator
- Draw
- Drawing Sketching
- Draping
- Pattern Draping
- Drafting
- Drawing Clothes
- Pattern Cutting
- Pattern Design
- Pattern Development
- Pattern Drafting
- Pattern Making
- Pattern Grading
- Surface Pattern
- Print Pattern
- Repeat Pattern
- Fashion Concept
- Fashion Business
- Fashion Degree
- Fashion Design
- Fashion Drawing
- Technical Drawing
- Layout
- Layout Design
- Fabric
- Fabric Colour
- Fabric Cutting
- Fabric Design
- Fabric Manipulation
- Fabric Sourcing
- Colour Palette
- Management
- Fashion Trends
- Costing
- Adobe Illustrator
- Adobe Photoshop
Education
pass post graduate certificateLondon College of Fashion, UAL
- London, United Kingdom
Skills developed:
Technical drawings,
grading,
pattern cutting,
plotting,
lay plans,
garment measurement,
costing,
Gerber software.
Final year project:
Sketch book,
Gerber,
design,
pattern cutting,
lay plan,
garment measurement,
costing,
sampling,
print design,
technical drawings,
grading,
modelling,
concept development,
2:1 BA (Hons) Fashion Design And RealisationLondon College of Fashion, UAL
- London, United Kingdom
Skills developed: Pattern manipulation,
design,
print design,
sketch books,
embroidery,
draping,
producing patterns from block.