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Fashion
Designer
- Determine
what trends customers will wear next season using
concepts, sketches, fabrics, and trims
- Oversee all aspects of the design
room
- Handle preliminary fittings
- Communicate ideas and vision
to staff
- Create fashion innovation for
the international marketplace
- Develop a strong sense of color,
fabric, and silhouette
- Provide direction to design assistants,
patternmakers, and artists
- Know the current market and what
the competition is doing
- Develop and implement procedures
to monitor productivity and streamline internal processes
- Travel to global fashion
markets
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Merchandiser
- Fabric sourcing, importing, and
costing issues
- Understand and identify new trends
- Work with a design team
- Develop and implement procedures
to monitor productivity and streamline internal processes
- Conduct meetings; manage sample
approval process; order follow-up and communicate
frequently with retailers
- Oversee the sales merchandising
and creative staff members
- Exhibit strong management,
organizational, and presentation skills
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Pattern
Maker
- Interpret
sketches provided by the fashion designer
- Drape and develop patterns that
reflect the details and aesthetics as proposed by
the fashion designer
- Produce first patterns for designs
that accurately reflect the design intent
- Work to achieve the correct silhouette
and garment fit
- Attend fit sessions with Sample
Models and make sure pattern corrections are made
- Supervise the Sample Maker in
the construction of the garment
- Initiate cost-saving recommendations
to the design team
- Review seasonal line development
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Technical Designer
- Manage the seasonal style development
for specific apparel categories
- Manage garment fit and make approvals
from beginning thru photo samples
- Establish and issue graded specs
- Evaluate samples for fit, measurements,
pattern shaping, and functionality to insure fit
and proper styling
- Serve as the technical expert
ensuring that garments are in the appropriate fabrics,
measurements, and construction details
- Manage workflow, deadlines, and
communications processes with both internal and external
customers
- Communicate through written comments,
sketches, photos, or pattern making
- Translate the design concept
into specification packages which detail garment
measurements, design features, and construction requirements
- Develop and document construction
details, fabric and trim
- Supervise and/or maintain
style tracking information for each style throughout
the development and production processes
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