Carlos Balandín

My duties here include assisting with all aspects of day to day running of the store including approaching all customers in a warm and welcoming manner and ensuring their visit to the store is a pleasant one, selling to specific targets and utilising add on and up sell techniques, assisting visual merchandisers with the overall presentation of the store, and ensuring that customer retention rates were kept high.

I worked as a store manager for this brand of leather shoes and accessories, where my duties consisted of overseeing all daily functions of store activity, helping with the general cleaning, supervising product inventory, verifying received products, operating and balancing cash register, and recruiting, training and motivating employees.

My duties were personal assistance with the stylists, making Press clippings, preparing Shoppings to deliver, creating corporative mailings and introducing the brands’ collections.

I created 4 different navy sets, including Popeye the sailor man, which appeared on Spring / summer 2009 catalogue.

It was a fashion retrospective from the eighties up to now which took place at La Vaguada (Madrid) where I draw some famous celebrities such as Madonna, Prince or Don Johnson and some other fashion sketches to be printed in human size. (I worked as freelance for Ketchum Agency).

I worked at the backstage helping models to get dressed during the Boy George’s B-Rude catwalk show in Madrid.