Create has partnered with a stunning, luxury Womenswear brand who are, popular on the red carpet and currently preparing to showcase. They are recruiting a Womenswear Assistant Designer, who has a glamourous and edgy handwriting.
Responsibilities
DESIGN & DEVELOPMENT
• Clothing atelier collection mood boards with inspiration, designs & fabric.
• Market & customer research for our brand, industry standing & muse.
• Design, illustrations, sketching to create new products for the brand.
• Pattern cutting, from blocks & from draping on the mannequin.
• Toiling, overseeing toiles in the studio and fitting garments.
• Preparing construction notes for the factory and seamstresses.
• Packing all pieces for garments to be made for seamstresses.
• Overseeing seamstresses for our factory samples.
• Product types: Ready-to-wear clothing, show pieces & merchandise.
• Packing & preparing all clothing for photoshoots, to send to the communication team.
• Creating illustration line up of the collection for our mood boards.
• Overseeing a design & development student for product development tasks.
• Competing of garments to a luxury product finish, with all seams, finishes, fabrics & trims.
• Fabric sourcing, order fabric / components with monthly order list
• Pattern cutting library, archive patterns, new season in an organised manner.
Requirements:
• 1-2 years' experience working in the luxury fashion industry or graduated from an MA
design course.
• Has worked for a London Fashion Week catwalk designer previously would be preferable.
• Have a go-getter mindset, very driven and motivated for a long term career aim in luxury
fashion.
• Background developing products in luxury fashion that are ready to the quality for
wholesale & desirable for successful sales.
• Understands how to use a spreadsheet: Numbers & Google Sheets
• Can use organisation apps like Trello & Air table
• Very organised with strong attention to detail
• Positive minded
• Can work at ease under pressure
• Can keep sensitive business contacts confidential
• Can adhere to company policies, workflows, structure & systems in place.
Beneficial
• Understanding of Adobe software
Application
Please apply with a CV and portfolio