akira tsuruoka: Creative Design Consultant in Riverside, CT

Creative fashion business solution providers. As a full service fashion design consultancy, offering leading brands direction and product design, from concept to runway and beyond. As specialist consultant with global experience, adept at working independently or alongside creative directors or in-house buyers and designers. The expertise, industry knowledge and impeccable connections to kick aspiration into action, shooting your company up to the next level. Key to our success is the awareness and acceptance that creativity, intuition and talent are essential, but not enough - a label can't fly without hard- headed business input. Supporting creating and launching a new brand; or perhaps re-branding and looking for innovation and fresh inspiration. You may want unique creative and practical input for the short or long- term, alongside our logistical and sourcing solutions.

Further evolve design leadership in Ralph Lauren's top tier luxury outerwear design team for Purple Label after the company's global luxury brand strategy implemented and consolidated brands segment. Performed active engagement and supportive partner to contribute to the aesthetic brand integration. Constructed luxury collection in much deeper accept of creativity and understanding market/consumer business needs in global experience, strategic partner to direct and adjacent teams for upfront research and development and to define core offer to drive the business classification which lead significant increase in global ROI.

Responsible for creating seasonal concept of Converse by John Varvatos men's collection, by fusing an elevated luxury to classic rock n' roll styling; designing and developing outerwear and overseeing woven products (including bottoms and shirts) as well as seasonal accessories. Performed trend and market research, establish product roadmap/sku by analyzing competitive market and consumer insights. Coordinate all phases of sample development and sourcing vendors (supply chain) for materials and factories via travel to Europe and Asia, project and track budget for seasonal development. Lead seasonal look book styling, make presentations, post-show photo shoot.

Responsible for designing and developing executed seasonal product line of men's outerwear for Purple Label(including runway show pieces), Polo Blue Label Collection(Italian made), Polo Sport and RLX(performance and luxury technical sportswear); Perform all phases of sample design and product development include tech pack(specification for fabric and trim with costing and cost effective in mind, garment construction and fitting, sketch for all key details). Also, lead responsible for with special projects including NASA flight suits proposal, Aspen ski patrol uniform etc.

Perform product management by administer for all design conceptions, merchandising and sample development, and final production of eight men's technical/performance outerwear and bottoms deliveries a year for Nautica Competition line; actively involved in trend research including traveling to Europe and Asia trade shows, developing color, fabric and trim stories, coordinate all phases of sample development and rapid prototyping via travel to Asia.

Responsible for designing men's outerwear of three collections annually; developing leather and fabric stories, and perform consumer trends research, involved in sample development, specification sheet and ensure quality control. Designed seasonal collection exclusively for the Italian and Japanese accounts.