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Patricia Jemai

Los Angeles, CA
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  • About

    Fashion Designer with 10+ years experience in the Los Angeles industry offering the following skills:

    • Management of design and product development from concept to completion

    • Successfully achieve individual and corporate objectives in fast paced demanding environments

    • Adhere to Design and Production calendars for on time deliveries and strong in store presentations

    • Capable of managing a high sku count and work under tight deadlines

    • Garment construction, tech packets, flat sketching, work with over-seas vendors, sourcing

    • Design into all lifestyles of the brand customer and consistently having “best selling” merchandise improving sales comps

    • PDM system, CAD: Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, In Design, Quark, and Microsoft Office

    • Fluent in Spanish, conversational Italian

  • Education
    • Advance Language Certificate Italian Language and Culture
      Universita Degli Studi Di Firenze, Centro Di Cultura per Stranieri
      2002 - 2003
    • Associate of Arts Degree Fashion Design Grad
      FIDM / Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising
      1996
  • Experience
    • Senior Apparel Designer
      Freelance
      Los Angeles, CA
      Jan 2009 - Present (14 years 8 months)
      Senior Designer/ Dresses, Tops, Sportswear, Outerwear
      • Complete line development meeting client’s cost requirements, aesthetics.
      • Initial concept, flat sketches, technical specs, tech-packs.
      • Contribute by working with pattern makers & sample sewers, attend fittings.
      • Source trims, fabrics, attend tradeshows, shop the markets, domestic and imports.
      • Extensive knowledge of garment construction, sewing, print placements.
      • Suggest ways to reengineer prints for cost effective print layouts for optimal yields.
    • Designer (Contemporary Day Dresses LAUNDRY by DESIGN division)
      Perry Ellis International / LAUNDRY BY Shelli Segal
      Los Angeles, CA
      Jul 2012 - Apr 2014 (1 year 9 months)
      • Develop seasonal/ monthly deliveries while controlling costs to achieve target sales margins.
      • Design Day and Cocktail dresses, knits and woven as well as sweater dresses.
      • Develop artwork for sweater layouts, extensive knowledge in print layouts for best production yields.
      • Work closely with/ report to VP of design in complete line development.
      • Coordinated with sales team and merchants to help achieve sales goals.
      • Prepared initial concept, flat sketches, technical specs, tech-packs, oversee pattern makers & sample sewers, attend fittings.
      • Source trims, fabrics, domestic and imports.
      • Consistently produce best selling merchandise, and meet sales goals while managing WIP calendar and meeting deadlines.
    • Designer (Contemporary / Junior dresses, tops, day and evening)
      Authentic Apparel Group
      Los Angeles, CA
      Jul 2011 - Jun 2012 (11 months)
      • Complete line development: Concept, Color, Trends, Mood Boards, and Embellishments.
      • Development for private label accounts (Arden B, Macys, Nordstrom, Mandees, Bealls, Kmart).
      • Initial concept, flat sketches, technical specs, tech-packs, oversee pattern-makers & sample sewers, attend fittings.
      • Source trims, fabrics, attend tradeshows, shop the markets, domestic and imports.
      • Attend all fittings & work closely with pattern makers, sewers and buyers to deliver successful monthly collections.
    • Designer (evening & day dresses, fashion tops, leather/outerwear sportswear)
      BEBE Stores Inc.
      Los Angeles, CA
      May 2008 - Jun 2011 (3 years 1 month)
      • Work closely with creative director designing monthly collections into all categories: soft wovens, cut & sew knits, leather.
      • Manage development of new monthly deliveries while maintaining production calendar for “on order” merchandise.
      • Responsible for all initial sketches, concepts, specs, and communicating corrections for overseas development.
      • Source trims, fabrics, attend tradeshows, shop the markets, overseas travel to work with factories.
      • Attend all fittings & work closely with pattern makers, sewers and buyers to deliver successful monthly collections.
      • Management of designers, assistants, pattern makers, spec-techs, and sample makers to ensure on time seasonal presentations.
      • Train staff in garment construction and execution of technical specifications for overseas development.
    • Designer (women's contemporary soft wovens, dresses, tops knits)
      Papillon Imports
      Los Angeles, CA
      Apr 2003 - May 2008 (5 years 1 month)
      • Complete line development: Concept, Color, Trends, Mood Boards, Embellishments, Sketching, Techpacks.
      • Executed fittings, provided fit corrections to over-seas factories.
      • Traveled to: India, China, Hong Kong & Indonesia to develop hand embroidery, custom prints & approve proto samples.
      • Attended industry trade shows: Las Vegas (MAGIC), Hong Kong.
      • Managed assistant designers to ensure on time show samples.
      • Worked with buyers and private label accounts (Arden B, Nordstrom, Soft Surroundings) to design specific “trend right” customer merchandise.
    • Associate Designer (girls collection)
      Chase Design Group
      Los Angeles, CA
      Apr 2001 - Mar 2003 (1 year 11 months)
      • Designed tween apparel collection and licensed product for Mattel Inc., included flat sketching, trend boards, fabric and color specs.
      • Develop branded licensed product for STYLE GUIDE for Mattel Inc.
      • Worked closely with graphic designers to developed textile prints, adapted prints and graphics to apparel.
      • Lived in Europe to research trends for stylebook. Created concepts, storyboards, color & trend forecasting.
  • Skills
    • Design Management
    • Fashion Design
    • Interior Design
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