Encinitas, California, United States
As a 3rd year Apparel and Merchandising student at Colorado State University, I’m passionate about designing apparel with both purpose and innovation. With a concentration in Apparel Design and Production, I have a proficient background in garment construction, technical packages/PLM systems, textile science, textile design, and technical design. I thrive in hands-on, fast paced environments, and I’m eager to deepen my understanding of the design and product development processes as I continue my education. I care about the balance between both style and function within design. My goal is to learn more about how traditional craftmanship will integrate with new technologies emerging in the apparel and textile industry.
Support the intimates fittings end‑to‑end by prepping style info, taking detailed fit notes, documenting changes, and updating cross‑team email chains, Excel trackers, and presentation decks. Create technical sketches and CADs in Procreate with accurate construction details, textures, and printways for design and PD review. Build fabric + trim tools including placement charts, color cards, BOM inputs, and Pantone‑matched color references for vendor communication. Set up tech pack pages (BOM, construction, POM, reference, design notes). Mock garments to visualize late‑add or pre‑sample styles for design, PD, and buying teams. Maintain fabric archives by photographing textiles, organizing physical bins, and updating SharePoint libraries. Organize sample materials by filing fabric swatches, trim cards, and style folders using Tradestone PLM and internal archive systems.
Luxury retail sales and styling. Working with clients and customers to create a specialized shopping experience, help visually merchandise the sales floor, steam and organize garments, review inventory and register, and manage opening/closing tasks.
As a design assistant, I assist with organization of the textile swatch library (knits vs wovens vs specialty), help create technical sketches of base layer garments, assemble line sheets for client companies, and assist with color/trend forecasting to create color boards for client companies.
Assigned to a model backstage, where I managed timely outfit changes for each runway walk. Gained hands-on experience with luxury fashion show operations by assisting lead stylists, maintaining garment quality, coordinating quick changes, and ensuring seamless backstage flow. Developed a strong understanding of timing, organization, and the layout of runway production.
As an Assistant Coordinator for the KORA x Skin Lounge Fashion Show, I assisted in styling each model's runway outfit, selecting the catwalk order, tagging and steaming garments, deciding the model's stage props, conducting fittings and dress rehearsals with the models, decorating and setting up the fashion show venue, dressing display mannequins, visually merchandising the pop-up shop, directing each model's timing and outfit changes during the show, communicating with the hair and makeup team and main shows coordinator, organizing all garment racks, and giving instructions to models and volunteers throughout the main event and all rehearsals/prep dates.