adrienne mercante: Design Director in Long Beach, California
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Skechers USA
Senior Designer, Men's Performance Apparel | 06/2024 - Current
- Apparel design for Skechers athletes, ambassadors, special projects and performance apparel
- Collaboration with product line managers, sourcing team and other cross functional partners to achieve margin goals and meet calendar deadlines
United Sports Brands
Senior Designer/Acting Design Director, Outdoor Apparel | 03/2021 - 10/2023
- Backfill for the role of SVP Design during the PEARL iZUMi acquisition, successfully transitioning the brand into the United Sports Brands portfolio of brands
- Creative direction, line planning and design for Nathan Sports running line and PEARL iZUMi cycling line
- Executed seasonal color palette, prints and graphics
- Traveled to trade shows to meet with vendors for sourcing and development of new fabrics and trims
- Supervised, trained and mentored junior designers and developers
Western Rise
Design and Development Consultant, Men's Technical Apparel | 05/2017 - 12/2019
- Design and product development for a sustainable apparel brand with product designed to move from mountain to street
- Designed hero products for the brand, including several successful Kickstarter campaigns
- Oversaw fit and led communication with outside vendors including contracting pattern makers and factories
- Sourced and designed into technical and sustainable performance fabrics
Chrome Industries
Design and Development Consultant, Men's and Women's Technical Apparel | 10/2017 - 10/2019
- Design, creative direction and technical design for urban performance and cycling apparel
- Introduced women’s apparel to the brand, initiating all designs for the initial women's line
- Envisioned and designed merino offering evolving the merino assortment from a single piece to an entire category
- Created tech packs with detailed specs, technical sketches and grading in Illustrator and Excel for submission to factories
- Responsible for overall garment fit, including hand revisions to pattern print outs provided by factory
- Traveled to overseas factories for development
- Supervised and mentored product developers
Betabrand
Senior Menswear Designer | 01/2016 - 01/2017
- Design and creative direction for all men’s collections: travel, outdoor, office wear and performance lifestyle
- Introduced the company to the outdoor industry through the creative direction of the outdoor line
- Envisioned and brought to market the men’s version of the women’s best selling dress pant yoga pant
- Collaborated with a team of developers and merchants to refine men’s product and improve margins
- Hired, trained, supervised and mentored junior designers and interns
Outlier
Lead Apparel Designer, M's and W's | Head of Apparel Production | 04/2010 - 04/2015
- Design, product line management and production for men’s/women’s outerwear, knits and woven tops and bottoms
- Led and mentored a cross functional design, product development and production team of ten people
- Helped grow this e-commerce start-up from the owner's spare bedroom to $5M annual revenue
- Owned development calendar and sample tracking
- Managed relationships with manufacturers, including marker/grader, cutting room and sew shop
- Improved costing and planning strategy for inventory and fabric and trim buying
- Oversaw quality control, checking construction and measurements of finished garments
GoodSport NYC
Founder and Designer | 01/2007 - 04/2010
- Designed and created initial prototypes for an apparel line targeting female cyclists
- Received multiple awards for company business plan in business plan competitions
Design History/Salty Inc.
Women’s Cut and Sew Knit and Sweater Designer/Merchandiser | 08/2005 - 12/2006
-Worked with senior merchandisers to determine potential best-sellers for presentation to buyers
-Worked with overseas agents regarding sample development, preparing, approving and sending accurate tech packs
-Assisted in fitting of development samples, accurately revising and grading specs according to fit changes
Liz Claiborne
Associate Sleepwear and Loungewear Designer | 06/2004 - 07/2005
Victorias Secret Design Studio, Swimwear Division
Assistant Swimwear Designer | 11/2003 - 04/2005
Education history
Baruch, Zicklin School of Business
M.B.A. | 2007 - 2010
Columbia University, Columbia College
B.A. | 1997 - 2001
Fashion Institute of Technology
A.A.S. | 1999 - 2003
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