Work history
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Brand ManagerJess Collett Milliner
London, United KingdomFreelance
Brand Management and Marketing Responsibilities:
- Responsible for social media management across all platforms. Social media management includes organising paid advertising and advertising campaigns, producing monthly analytics, activley building content, activley engaging and forward planning social media strategy.
- Ensuring that all content built is on brand, proffesionally photographed by myself and is engaging to the audienece
- Responsible for holding lifestyle fashion shoots that show off the JCM hats
- Organing proffesional shoots bi-annually, creating shot lists and generally co-ordinating the shoot
- In charge of creating weekly blog posts and newsletters relevant to the brand, season and current trends
- Responsible for coming up with new and creative ways to market the JCM brand
- Hosting in studio sales and organising pop ups and other selling events
-Actively selling to new customers and regular clinets
Studio Responsibilities:
- In charge of upkeeping the website, changing stock when neccessary, updating the opening page and keeping it easy and fun to use
- Keeping on top of orders and sending them out when ready
- Keeping on top of general financial information
- Leasing with clients and helping meet their needs
- Responsible for small production tasks including sewing velvet and petersham bands for hats, studding and intialling caps and recently making small and large hair bows for a designer collaboration
- Responsible for helping with couture hats when workload increases: Rolling silk flowers, hand sewing veiling, making hairbands, hand sewing flowers and placing diamantes and fitting onto clients.
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Luxury Womenswear DesignerLisa Redman LTD
- London, United KingdomFreelance
Bespoke design assistance - Reponsibilities include:
- Responsible for designing a range of garment choices prior to client meetings
- Responsible for editing sketches during client meetings and for sketching new ideas as a descussion unfolds
- Taking measuremnts, photos and offering opinions on cut and style options for future bespoke pieces
- Responsible for sourcing fabrics for client garments
- Attending appointments with fabric agents to choose suitable fabrics
Designing of the AW18 acessories line - Reponsibilities include:
- Designing all items within the line including embellished leather gloves, silks carves, hair acessories and collars
- Working with Lisa to ensure all designs are on brand, within budget and in line with upcoming winter accessory trends
- Contacting fabric suppliers and choosing apporpriate fabrics for each product
- Contacting and leasing with the manafacturers to arrange sampling, production and costings
- Developing a plan of how and when each piece will move from one manafacturer to the other for the second or third stage of production
- Contacting buyers and arranging appointments to pitch and launch the line
- Arranging pitches - Inlcuding finalising accessory illustrations, creating presentations and oragnisation/presentation of prototypes
General studio responsibilities:
- Client file management - keeping all current garment sketches together and easy to refer to
- Forward planning and time tabling of both my own and Lisa's appontments/tasks
- Responsible for coming up with new ideas - marketing plans, future collections etc.
Skills
- Creative Content
- Digital Advertising
- CAD Drawings
- Adobe
- Marketing Campaigns
- Photoshoot Styling
- Client Communications
- Brand Developent
- Collaboration
- Art Direction
Education
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BA Fashion DesignKingston School of Art & Design
London, United Kingdom
Studying at one of Londons top fashion schools, I ensured that I undertook an enthusiastic and active approach in all areas of my degree, from independently running research projects to creating a favoured graduate collection. I was a competitive and yet harmonious member of the year group.
Achievements:
Internal Show planner and organiser [Sept 2016 - May 2017]
- Lead organiser and member of fundraising team for internal show
- Treasurer; set up bank account for internal show fundraising, liaising with production team, venue, DJ's etc as to costs, gathering momentum from the younger years to help fundraise
- Organised at took part a number of fundraising events from Life Drawing [in which I was the instructor] to a fashion auction and countless students union nights.
SADRAS research project: Should the activities taken part in to raise money for the Internal Show be a part of the 'Professional Practice' module?
- Leading member of research project in which we recorded time spent on unmarked work for the internal show and what skills we gain from working in the internal show.
Selected for prestigious Wimbledon Village event in which pieces from my collection were on display at key locations for the duration of the Tennis. Interviewed by BBC South West about the event and the University's collaboration with them.
Collection:
- Designed and hand built my own set for my final collection editorial shoot
- Directed and photographed a fellow students editorial shoot that was later featured in press publications
- Had my editorial images and illustrations selected and displayed on loop at Graduate Fashion Week