Lauren McWilliams: in Columbus, OH

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.

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

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.

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.