Laura Parkinson

Creative Gerber & Manual Pattern Cutter

Bristol, England, United Kingdom

About

I am a pattern cutter with over 9 years experience in the luxury sector, flexible to work digitally on Gerber or manually where required, with corsetry & draping. I have a Gerber licence on my personal laptop if required.

Experience

  • Freelance Pattern Cutter at Freelance
    Dec 2021 - Present · 4 yrs 8 mos

    Brands include: Talia Byre Ahluwalia Victoria Beckham Emilia Wickstead Martine Rose Timothy Han Serena Bute Erdem

  • Pattern Cutter at ERDEM
    Jan 2023 - Oct 2025 · 2 yrs 10 mos

  • Freelance Creative Pattern Cutter at 16Arlington
    May 2022 - Jan 2024 · 1 yr 9 mos

  • Freelance Creative Gerber Pattern Cutter at ROKSANDA
    Mar 2022 - Jun 2022 · 4 mos

  • Creative Gerber Pattern Cutter at Roland Mouret
    Feb 2021 - Dec 2021 · 11 mos

    - Creative Gerber pattern cutting from realisation to production handover. Working from both sketches and Roland’s drapes and taking them back to the company blocks. - Attending all fit sessions, fitting styles and implementing fit amends on all allocated styles. - Working closely with in house machinists to achieve the best finish and fully resolve allocated styles. - Digitising any manually created patterns into Gerber, and cleaning them up ready for production handover.