Burton washed formal jackets for SS12. Sourced fabric, trims and internal components, then worked with the laundry to create a wash recipe for garment wash. Fabric was a tan 3/1 heavy weight twill with chambray lining and corozo buttons and a denim look with stripe poly cotton lining and corozo buttons.
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BHS SS13 Summer formal jackets. Blue PV chambray with dark poly lining and plain white polyester buttons with OBW hanky. Dark blue matt canvas weave in PV wool with patch pockets, mock horn buttons and dark navy lining.
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Linen cotton formal jacket for BHS Summer 13 in a tan and white small check with buggy lining in polyester chambray. Internal facing is wide as I designed the chest canvas to attach to the internal facing rather than the outer jacket fabric so jacket kept the structure while the front outer panel fabric fell from the shoulder making the jacket look deconstructed.
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ASOS Summer 12 Prom jackets in cotton velvet with cream / black satin and covered buttons.
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BHS Spring 13 linen suit design. The aim of this suit is to compete in design and quality compared to the M&S linen viscose suit while having a price advantage, it was more of a sourcing exercise but these were the designs that we advised BHS on.
Burton AW12 fashion suits. This fell under Burton fashion range and we supported these designs with trend analysis to support our view that 'British Heritage' would be the next major trend for men's formalwear.
Burton AW12 Formal Shirts - Dress shirts in 100% cotton. Burton asked us to look at re-designing their shirt offering, looking specifically at their white shirts as they felt these needs a little updating.
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Burton AW12 Formal Shirts - Fashion shirts in 100% cotton. Burton asked us to look at re-designing their shirt offering, looking specifically at their white shirts as they felt these needs a little updating.
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Burton AW12 Formal Shirts - Fashion shirts in CVC. Burton asked us to look at re-designing their shirt offering, looking specifically at their white shirts as they felt these needs a little updating.
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Burton AW12 Formal Shirts - Fashion shirts in CVC. Burton asked us to look at re-designing their shirt offering, looking specifically at their white shirts as they felt these needs a little updating.
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Burton AW12 Formal Shirts - Fashion shirts in TC. Burton asked us to look at re-designing their shirt offering, looking specifically at their white shirts as they felt these needs a little updating.
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Tesco AW11 tailoring. Sourcing fabric, analyzing trend information and creating designs for their consumer at an affordable price.
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Burton SS13 fashion suits, picking up on the trend for check suits that was making it's way down to the high street we proposed a number of checks to Burton along side make up options. As Burton has a specific price it needs to hit the design of the garment often reflects the price of the fabric.
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Burton SS13 fashion suits. Again picking up that a number of high end brands were using indigo tonics and pindots we proposed a small selection of options in PV to Burton along with designs that we had filtered from these high end brands to make them applicable to Burton.
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Burton SS13 Razor Suit. Burton's best selling suit is grey twill with razor detailing, every season we look at this design to see how we would move it on if sales started to slow on the current design.
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Primark SS13 fashion suits. This was the first season we presented to Primark and for them we created a 'Build Your Own Suit' presentation. We started by costing one suit in each of their pricing structures and from there we analyzed trends to create the most fashion forward presentation while referring back to the original costings so we in the initial meeting the buyer could walk away with her garment price before we had even put the sample into work.
Another fashion option for Primark SS13 from the 'Build Your Own Suit' presentation.
Marks and Spencer Limited Party pack for Christmas 2013. By undertaking own trend research we developed a small range of fashion suits for M&S designed to compete with the rest of the High Street for the fashion options.
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Marks and Spencer Spring 2014 New Look Limited. We created our own trend analysis and sourced a new fibre dyed PV route to create this New Look Limited suit which is modernity at it's best. The simple lines and classic styling mixed with fun and surprising elements make these New Look suits a favourite for Spring 14.
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Marks and Spencer Spring 14 'New Look' Performance Suit. M&S's performance suit range was in need of a revamp for Spring 14 and this was our offering based on Hugo Boss' travel offering we created a suit that is more in tune with what today's traveler needs.
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Marks and Spencer Winter 2013 Autograph Trousers. An M&S offering of the hugely popular Ted Baker trousers, another fashion offering by Autograph aimed at taking the brand back up to it's premium level.
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Men's Formalwear

A small selection of formalwear designed for the UK High St including brands such as Marks and Spencer, Arcadia and ASOS from Spring 2011 to Spring 2014. Undertaking trend research and analysing results to create fashion forward mens formalwear presentations. Developing fabrics and trims, working alongside pattern cutters to create new fits, creating wash recipes and technical specification packs. Seeing all garments through from first concept to bulk production.

Samantha Roberts
Freelance Mens and Ladieswear Designer London, United Kingdom