About me
Established with a varied background and over 8 years in industry: across high end and high street, experience in account management as well as design, Sarah often brings a uniquely informed perspective to design.
Consistently delivering on brief and on time, Sarah has built a reputation across Womenswear departments at high-street giants for reliability and insightful design with a high hit-rate and sale through, including regular repeat styles. She has a sense of wonderment in approach to design with an innovative attitude, working to secure the dream whilst utilising her sales experience to keep one eye on the budget, lead time and production abilities.
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Projects
Work history
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Junior Designer and Account Manager ASOSFluxe ltd
London, United KingdomFull Time
− Leading Designer on Jumpsuits, generating highest sales figures for Fluxe at ASOS.
− Secondary Designer to all other ASOS accounts.
− Design for all Fluxe customers.
− Negotiating and closing sales consistently above margin.
− Troubleshooting tricky orders to profitably gain them.
− Successfully evolving others design to fit price and securing sales.
− Developing new platforms and content.
− Managing Sales Support team.
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Established DesignerLOADED
- London, United KingdomFull Time
Working closely with in house pattern cutters and machinists, as well as specing styles to be made externally, we develop styles for a spectrum of UK retailers. Designing collaboratively alongside both in house and customer Design, Buying and Production teams, across Woven and Jersey product areas.
Using inspirational trips, such as to Europe, London shopping and the Races to be surrounded by our customer and truly absorb how she wears our product. Successfully feeding this back to the teams and new development meetings with the customer, to create stronger product and secure higher sales.
Translating customer needs into a cohesive offering, whilst balancing production capabilities, we are reactive to social media to ensure we are the first offering new product or fabric translations, as well as collating research to inform on emerging trends and micro trends that is inline with the customer vision.
Co-ordinating juniors to help prepare for meetings etc, whilst mentoring them to improve skills and advance in the team.
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Skills
- Fashion
- Shoes
- Assistant
- Design
- Pre Production
- Product Development
- Technical Design
- Excel
- Illustrator
- Indesign
- Office
- Photoshop
- Powerpoint
- Word
- Adobe
Education
Fashion Design Technology WomenwearLondon College of Fashion, UAL
- London, United Kingdom
Complete design and development process from research and design to pattern cutting and make
Awards
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Best 3-Way CollaborationFashion156.com
Awarded for graduate collection by Fashion156.com
http://www.fashion156.com/daily-blog/f156-graduate-showcase-week-sarah-buchanan-claire-kelly-and-georgina-howling/