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Associate Designer
Kellwood Company
City of Industry, CA
Oct 2020 - Feb 2022 (1 year 4 months)
Worked with the head designer in the bottoms category for Jolt and private label Knox Rose.
Product development, trend forecast for soft and denim bottoms designs.
Fabric sourcing for woven’s, knits, denims and sustainable fabrics.
Spec garments, create vendor made or in house tech packs for development samples.
Create technical sketches, body CADs and modify art work.
Attend fittings for production styles.
Print development, washes and hardware sourcing with overseas vendors.
Pass wash, fabric, artwork and trim standers.
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Associate Designer
Kellwood Company
City of Industry, CA
Mar 2016 - Apr 2020 (4 years 1 month)
Partnered with the dress designer’s for social, club, prom/homecoming styles, and casual dresses.
Assembled tech packs for all ordered styles, passed standards to production team.
Created technical sketches and body CADs.
Photoed market samples, e-files and up keep fabric library.
Communicated with overseas vendors for fabric and trim sourcing.
Worked with team on daily projects, assembled packages for vendor made samples.
Partner with junior designer for sweater dresses development.
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Assistant Designer
Kandy Kiss California
Los Angeles, CA
May 2015 - Mar 2016 (10 months)
Assisted in the athleisure wear/ graphic tee division.
Liaise with Buyers/ Sales for fit comments and PO's information.
Partner with overseas counter partners for development styles, strike offs and lab dips.
Assist with graphic art, prints and technical sketches.
Assemble tech packs and created spec sheets for development styles.
Spec fit samples, documented comments.
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Pre-Production Coordinator/ Design Assistant
Unger Fabrik_Band of Gysies
Los Angeles, CA
Sep 2012 - Nov 2014 (2 years 2 months)
Pre-Production Coordinator for Unger Fabrik labels as will assisted Band of Gypsies design team.
Coordinated Ad sample and dupe sample request.
Partner w/ design or production team for accurate fabric info for the tech team to start fit sampling.
Communicated with local print houses on new art work developments.
Assisted in managing Unger’s production sample room workload.
Ensure samples were completed and sent out on requested due dates.
Communicated with Domestic factories on fit samples and comments.
Assumable art work placements and size scale of all production orders with screens prints, sublimations, and embellishments.
Set up and update all WIP reports, create pattern matrixes for tech team.