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Used to design for Umbro (Man Utd, Koln, England)
Doesn't seem to have actually designed anything for the past ten years....
Creative Director
n|h Design Consulting
February 2010 – Present (3 years 5 months)
n|h Design Consulting offers a complete apparel design creation service. Providing key design direction, up to the minute focused emerging trend reports, Colour analysis function, and full innovative freelance design capabilities. It is our mission to ensure our clients are always ahead of the trend.
Freelance Creative Consultant
Gelert Limited
Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Retail industry
February 2010 – Present (3 years 5 months)
•Freelance Creative Consultant: Formulation of initial trend research and responsible for complete design service for Gelert Ltd Mens S/S11 inline collections.
European Apparel Design Manager
Reebok/Adidas
Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; ADDDY; Consumer Goods industry
January 2004 – February 2010 (6 years 2 months)
• Liaising with Global Directors, Marketing Directors and Developt. team in Boston & Bolton.
• Attending global summits: Global design reviews to Final product review meetings.
• Managing design team: Lifestyle (2004-2008) /Core (2008-2009), review ranges, coaching & support on a team/individual basis.
• Briefing of external design resources.
• Attending trade shows etc (Tokyo, L.A., New York, Miami, Sao Paulo etc) to identify seasonal trends.
• Driving design through effective research, planning & communication, adherence to critical paths.
• Overseeing construction of ranges from first concept to final line adopt meetings. Creation & presentation of mood/concept boards.
• Factory visits
• Experience of Managing SMU’s: Identifying, processing SMU's through the design team to provide complimentary business on account specific basis.
Designer
Kickers, Pentland Group
January 2000 – January 2004 (4 years 1 month)
•Design of main range Lifestyle collection, sold into Debenhams, JD Sports, Allsports, River Island (R.I.) covering all categories from shirting, knitwear, jersey, jackets and pants. Value of £53,000,000.
•Sole responsibility for the design of Kickers exclusive SMU concession within River Island stores, involving identifying/presenting fast track trends, fabrics and final designs to the R.I. board of directors and merchandiser, on a weekly basis, generating business value of £12,500,000 per year.
•Conducting Far East and European based factory visits for Sourcing, development and QC purposes, and communication with supply chain on a day-day basis.
•Formulation of worksheets for the approved designs.
Designer
Joe Bloggs
January 1999 – January 2000 (1 year 1 month)
• Design of ranges for sister label ‘Laundry’ producing price sensitive Men’s high street fashion collections.
• Conducting shop reports and trend predictions for in house labels, work-sheet creation
• Presentation of trends to management
• Communicating with supply chain to ensure smooth transition of styles from concept to production.
Junior Designer
Umbro
Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Apparel & Fashion industry
1998 – 1999 (1 year)
•Initially employed as assistant designer, promoted to designer in 1999
•Design/pattern maker for Manchester United, England, FC Koln, team/replica/training apparel
•Design of sports lifestyle product/Formulation of trend and colour reports