Emily Pearce
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A confident and talented, dynamic ladies footwear designer, whose versatility has lead to gaining supplier, high street and high end high street experience. Passionate about finding new inspiration, innovating on trend ideas with the commercial awareness to tailor design handwriting for brand needs. Responsible for designing on a 1.2 million account with excellent feedback from numerous leading high street brands.
SUMMARY
* Excels at keeping up to date with catwalks and current trends, but is also passionate about sourcing new unique design inspiration, from abroad and secondary research, to ensure the range is fresh and up to date with other competitors.
* utilising all research to produce clear trend themes by creating trend boards.
* preparing for/ and presenting to clients with ease and confidence to ensure the customer feels their needs are fully catered to.
* tailoring design handwriting and other requirements of the customer - bearing in mind cost implications and their limitations, and where necessary coming up with solutions to this.
* Excellent design and hand drawing skills - technical, and free hand
* Fluent daily use of Adobe Photoshop/ Illustrator
* strong communication skills that ensure that spec sheets for shoes/new constructions/metal hardware/and upper placements are clear for the factories to understand
* Far east and european factory experience - confident liaising with factories via Skype, email and visiting them abroad, maintaining a solid working relationship to negotiate designs, kit development and amendments to help develop commercial products and get samples completed on time.
* Solid background within footwear retail sales, working on the shop floor with Schuh and Faith. -
Education
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London College of Fashion
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Foundation inUCE
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A levels Theatre Studies, Product Design, Art. GCSEsnot provided
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GCSEs A -Cnot provided
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BA Footwear DesignCordwainer's College2003
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BA Footwear DesignDMU2002
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A levels 3D design, Computer Graphics, Fashion design, and Fine ArtWolverley high school 6th form2002
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Experience
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Footwear DesignerMeller DesignsLondon, United StatesProgressed from Junior Footwear Designer to Footwear Designer in less than 18 months. Responsible for 3 accounts, growing one account to 1.2 million pounds worth of business. Maintaining a strong relationship with customers with potential to grow the business further. Duties include understanding the clients handwriting, sourcing primary and secondary research and presenting it. Designing to briefs given by the client, and ensuring all samples are developed to a strong standard for the customer, and working to strict time schedules
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Junior Footwear DesignerLK BennettLondon, United States(Only in house designer on footwear) Assisting the Freelance Designer and Creative Director by attending range plan meetings and updating the boards for this, collating research (Catwalk and design themes) into presentations and designing into this. Sketching up/colouring up design ideas and working on small projects independently. Producing clear spec sheets for upper placements, new heels, lasts constructions, metal hardware, and trims.. Other duties included maintaining the design plan/ design folders, initiating an archive of previous designs and sitting in on fit meetings to take notes.
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Assistant Footwear DesignerStarmark BrandsLondon, United Statesplacement) Freelance position, assisting the head designer, by completing some MTO projects and designing. Drawing up some products for SS12 Shellys/ Miss LFire and creating spec sheets for the range. Sitting in on Fit meetings, and helping to select colours/ materials for the ranges.
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Footwear Design AssistantOffice Londonmaternity placement) Assisting the head designer, by using available resources to predict forthcoming trends and create trend boards. Designing into these trends and tailoring them for the Office customer from sketches or existing vintage samples. Then producing clear design spec sheets and amendment sheets that the factories can understand. Also meeting with suppliers to discuss future ranges Other duties included communicating with overseas suppliers in Portugal, Spain and South- East Asia to negotiate development of each product.Responsible for opening, logging and chasing up development samples filing and other administration duties.
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Footwear Design AssistantTopshop LondonAssisted across all areas of ladies footwear design at Topshop head office.This included trend analysis and the creation of some mood/trend boards. Some design work, launched in Summer 2010, creating items for Press day and running errands for the team including some general studio admin.
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Freelance Footwear DesignerHush PuppiesDec 2014 - Feb 2015 (2 months)Working as the footwear designer for the Hush Puppies EMEA range. Responsible for material/ trim selection, and design work and any amendments necessary. Ad hoc projects, including Photoshop CADS new ideas for the global range.
Duties include working to tight work deadlines and communicating designs to the American team and factories to ensure product achieves a high standard. Liaising with in house team, coming up with new ideas for the range and presenting them to customers and other members of staff in the business. -
Freelance Footwear DesignerHush PuppiesLondon, United KingdomDec 2014 - Feb 2015 (2 months)Working as the footwear designer for the Hush Puppies EMEA range. Responsible for material/ trim selection, and design work and any amendments necessary. Ad hoc projects, including Photoshop CADS new ideas for the global range.
Duties include working to tight work deadlines and communicating designs to the American team and factories to ensure product achieves a high standard. Liaising with in house team, coming up with new ideas for the range and presenting them to customers and other members of staff in the business.
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