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Background in Junior's Fashion categories & Female Activewear / Fleece. Relocating to the Los Angeles area.  I am driven, talented, hard working, and upbeat!

Hollister Co. Girls Dresses, Rompers, & Jumpsuits 

Create presentations that anchor the store themes each season on a fast-paced, trend-focused team covering dresses/jumpsuits/rompers, skirts, sets, fashion bottoms, and shirting.

Role: Trend research, concept development, sketching, fabric, trim, color & pattern direction, tech packs, fits, submit approval, maintaining linesheets & style folders; presenting in meetings & line reviews, working closely with design directors, merchants, sourcing, and design counterparts on a daily basis. Supervisor of an assistant designer.

Associate Designer

Hollister Co. Girls Skirts, Sets, & Shirting 	

Create presentations that anchor the store themes each season on a fast-paced, trend-focused team covering dresses/jumpsuits/rompers, skirts, sets, fashion bottoms, and shirting.

Role: Trend research, concept development, sketching, fabric, trim, color & pattern direction, tech packs, fits, submit approval, maintaining linesheets & style folders; presenting in meetings & line reviews, working closely with design directors, merchants, sourcing, and design counterparts on a daily basis.

Abercrombie & Fitch Women’s & Kids’ Activewear & Knit Bottoms 

Introduced high-quality activewear line to A&F and abercrombie kids utilizing technical fabrications, finishes & construction.  Designed impactful presentations of tops, bras, and knit & woven bottoms. Sourced and developed specialty trims & techniques for each season. 

Updated the core fleece & leggings assortment by delivering new, on-trend packages. Worked in a variety of knit fabrications, utilized specialty yarns, multiple print, graphic, dye & wash techniques, and designed specialty trims & embellishment layouts. 

Role: Trend research, concept development, sketching, fabric, trim, color & pattern direction, tech packs, fits, submit review, maintaining linesheets & style folders; presenting in meetings & line reviews, working closely with design directors, merchants, and design counterparts on a daily basis.

Abercrombie & Fitch Women’s & Kids’ Activewear & Knit Bottoms

Assistant Designer

Abercrombie & Fitch Women's & Kids' Woven Bottoms

Role: sketching, tech packs, mock ups, research, presentation boards, linesheets, communicating with cross-functional teams, submit-review, and fits.

Design Intern

Fashion Week preparations: hand sewing/embellishing, managing the look board, organization/distribution of shoes & accessories, running errands, and set up/break down back stage. Drew flats for the Fall 2011 clothing draft.

Fashion Week Intern

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Lauren McWilliams: in Columbus, OH

Lauren McWilliams

Syracuse University