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Junior DesignerParry Murray
London, United KingdomFull Time
My role involves a range of responsibilities including design, production coordination, customer service and administration at this fast-paced supplier of luxury furnishing fabrics and products. I have utilised high levels of organisation to manage multiple project simultaneously.
Duties include:
• Communicating with mills in India and China: negotiating production timelines, ensuring sampling instructions are clear, providing sample approvals/ rejections, processing Order Memos.
• Liaising with UK and US based clients to develop products to the best outcome and creating original artworks as per client briefs.
• Designing prints, wovens and embroideries for the luxury interiors market. Solely responsible for designing the Proposte 2020 trims collection.
• Attending Trade Fairs in London and Paris to gather design inspiration and market awareness.
• Responsible for mentoring and supervising the Design Team intern.
• Logging all design developments and updating the sampling spreadsheet and pending projects.
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Textile DesignerSiyaram Silk Mills
- Mumbai, IndiaFull Time
Siyaram Silk Mills is an Indian supplier of upholstery and drapery fabrics to major furnishing fabric converters and brands across the globe. While working here I assisted the company in reaching its annual growth target of 30% by providing contemporary, market-relevant inspiration and creating trend-led designs, including a US bestseller. Duties included:
• Utilising strong hand painting and CAD skills to create designs, also selecting from in-house artworkers and archives;
• Managing design boards, trend boards, artwork archives, sales feedback files, yarn libraries to facilitate a smooth running of the design studio;
• Taking the initiative to provide the studio with direction for colour, pattern and material;
• Successfully fulfilling assortment plans, meeting design briefs set by Marketing team and clients, working within budget and to tight deadlines;
• Grouping jacquards, dobbys and embroideries to produce Heimtextil 2019 collection, covering Domestic, Contract and FR fabrics.
• Liaising with the factory, sending colouration files, selecting new yarn Pantone references, approving piece-dyed lab dips.
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Skills
- Knitted Textiles
- Knitwear Design
- Crochet/macrame/embroidery
- Embellishment
- Drawing
- Adobe Create Suite
- Organisation
- Time Management
- Printed Textiles
- Repeat Patterns
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