As a fashion designer, my core duties included:
✓ Developed concepts and produced designs, either by CAD or hand.
✓ Stay tuned with emerging fashion trends related to colours, fabrics and key shapes.
✓ Analysed designs from a technical perspective which can involve producing and creating specifications.
✓ Adapted existing designs for the mass fashion production.
✓ Collaborated with the wider development team and buyers to develop products.
✓ Interacted with sales executives to discuss the upcoming ideas for designing.
✓ Identified the target market for designs based on criteria such as age, gender, and socio-economic status.
✓ Good taste and passion in colours, patterns and fabrics
✓ Expert in draping, stitching, sewing, and using related equipment
✓ Excellent in fashion illustrations
✓ Very good at sketching, oil painting, landscape and sculpture, knife painting and live drawing
✓ Commendable interpersonal and communication skills
✓ A great team player ✓ Proficient with basic computer skills
✓ Self-motivated, innovative and creative
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Developing manmade fibres and quality assessing natural fibres;
❖ Spinning fibres into yarn, and knitting or weaving yarn into fabrics;
❖ Producing non-woven materials;
❖ Identifying the latest fabric trends, developments and innovations;
❖ Overseeing the dyeing, printing and finishing processes;
❖ Ensuring quality in areas such as strength, durability, colorfastness, and water and chemical resistance;
❖ Advising commercial colleagues on technical aspects of the business;
❖ Liaising with designers, and adapting designs to suit production methods;
❖ Making and sizing pre-production garments; ❖ Sourcing fabrics and accessories;
❖ Undertaking quality evaluations of materials and checking the quality of the final product;
❖ Responding to product queries, including complaints, from wholesalers and customers.
❖ Working to design instructions (known as a brief)
❖ Analyzing or predicting trends in fabrics, colours and shapes
❖ Producing concept and mood boards (a collection of items to capture a mood, such as photos, fabric pieces and colour samples)
❖ Developing basic shapes ('blocks') through patterns