United Kingdom
Fashion designer with experience of working in the luxury commercial fashion goods sector. Skilled in menswear and womenswear apparel design, concept design for collections and advertising campaigns, mood, trend & colour analysis, CAD, photoshoot assisting/directing, styling and illustration. Graduated with a Fashion Design Bachelor's degree & Art Foundation degree from Kingston School of Art, London, and Textile Arts BA year of study at Hongik University, Seoul. Co-founder of mother-daughter-owned small business, Kay's Kimchi, based in London, U.K. for authentic, family recipe homemade Korean Kimchi. https://www.kayskimchi.com/ See my work here... https://www.jenniferesson.com/
Menswear & Womenswear designer - Jersey, wovens & soft accessories design (socks & underwear) - Trim, branding & packaging design - Graphic design & illustration: on-garment prints/graphics. Web & social assets brand and graphic design - mailers, Instagram, website usage - Directly reporting and working closely with head of design & creative director - Research & trend analysis - Fabric sourcing and development - Handover to international vendors & suppliers - Daily use of Adobe illustrator, inDesign, Photoshop, Procreate, Excel
Co-founder of Kay's Kimchi. Family-run business based in London, U.K. Authentic Homemade Korean Kimchi. www.kayskimchi.com | @kayskimchi Role of business development, design, branding, marketing, web/content creation, social media, finance management, sales, operations.
Freelance menswear & womenswear designer Brands include: New Era Cap, Hechter Paris, The Rhubarb Society, Kippa Tres, M-Fitness and more... Skills include: CAD tech packs (Adobe illustrator & CLO3D), logo design, trend & colour analysis, research, concept design, creating mood boards, lookbook shoot assisting & management, styling and Illustration.
Menswear Designer, Creative Management, specialising in jersey, knit & graphics. - Directly reporting and working closely with Head of jersey & Senior Head of Design of BOSS menswear - Designing seasonal jersey collections (4 per year) + graphic concepts - Seasonal graphic/print design for menswear - Research & trend analysis to select and refine jersey oriented concepts, techniques, graphics and fabrics for the upcoming collection - Alongside main collection, designing capsule collections e.g. Responsible Wool capsule, Travel/performance capsules, Special event capsules - International research (travelling), in-store visits - Briefing daily tasks and projects to graphic designers and interns - Handover to international vendors & suppliers - Fabric & colour analysis and new fabric developments - Daily use of Adobe illustrator, inDesign, Photoshop & CLO 3D
- Directly reporting and working closely with Senior Head of Design of BOSS menswear - Designing seasonal concept to brief to product designers - Trend analysis to select suiting themes, moods and colours for the upcoming collection - Creating seasonal mood boards, research, colour cards/management of colour library - Designing capsule collections (including woven, jersey, accessories, tailoring, labelling, branding & graphics) e.g. Responsible Wool capsule, Travel capsule, Celebrity collaborations - International research (travelling), in-store visits; London, Paris, Los Angeles, Germany - Creating concept/storyboard/talent casting for online & in-store marketing commercial - Briefing daily tasks and projects to graphic designers and concept interns - Seasonal graphic/print design for menswear - Design/Organisation of showroom layout - firstly in Germany AG to then be implemented in global head offices - Directing product shooting and assisting organisation of lookbook shooting - working with the stylists, photographers and models - Liaising with external production agencies - Organisation of internal concept launch events with 200+ attendants - Presenting concepts to marketing, brand management and art direction teams - Created concept & directed an advertising campaign in Los Angeles for Boss denim
Working on the SS18 collection in the run-up to LFW. - Developing textiles skills - creating fused denim thread pieces, pattern cutting t-shirts, making silicone jewellery, moulding and sewing handbags and belts. - Dressing models backstage at LFW and doing last minute finishings. - Running errands around London, creating relations with suppliers