Senior Designer- RTW

Our Client, a luxury lingerie and RTW brand is looking for a talented Design Lead focused in RTW.

Design Lead | Job Description

Responsible for the entire design process from inspiration, color story, sketches, and fabric development, to fittings and final prototypes, all following the vision of the Creative Director. This position will focus on an edited lingerie- inspired RTW and lounge collection including knitwear. Must have experience working in advanced contemporary and / or designer.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• ? Driving inspiration and complete product assortments for monthly seasonal collections.
• ? Work closely with Sales and Creative Director on building collection line plans.
• ? Create and maintain seasonal inspiration and design sketch boards.
• ? Source appropriate fabrics and trims, working closely with mills to find beautiful fabrics within our targeted price points. Seasonal fabric sourcing, driving trim and embellishment development with PD within target point MOQ and newness.
• ? Handoff the sketches to the appropriate factories according to their strength and workload, liaise with the team and the factories throughout the development process from proto to final SMS.
• Allocate styles pre season to factories according to their strengths and workload.
• ? Draping and creating swatch mock-ups in the studio through design process.
• ? Oversee inhouse print development.
• ? Work closely with the Lingerie Designer to ensure collections are cohesive and work together
• ? Managing communication and strong relationships with all vendors - factories, mills, etc.
• ? Book, manage and oversee RTW development fittings and a clear handoff of fitting comments to the pattern makers or factories, working with production and Creative Director to ensure perfect garment look and fit - from

1st proto through TOP.

Negotiating for better costs.

Qualifications and Experience :