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Freelance Designer

Freelance & Contract

Highly creative, technically proficient, and hyper-organized Otis graduate and Fashion Design Professional with 8+ years of design, internship/apprenticeship experience at fashion/apparel companies including BCBG, Vince, Disney Productions, Halston, and Anthropologie among many others. Excellent technical, creative, and interpersonal skills, and superior organizational talents combined with an ability to work calmly and gracefully under
extreme pressure. Collaborative natural leader who helps motivate and inspire teammates.

-Worked closely with clients to execute their vision for one of a kind, custom made garments from concept to final product. 
-Created vision boards for color, pattern , styling and overall look of each piece so client can visualize completed looks. 
-Freehand illustrations to ensure creative direction is clear for client. 
-Selection of all fabrications and trims. Custom fittings, pattern drafting, all pre-fit sampling and final garment construction.


-Worked as 1st assistant under Production Designer/ Art Director to ensure all details of job were organized.
- Shopped for all materials needed for completion of each job in very short time frame to execute timely delivery for quick turn around.
-Assisted in all research for mood boards to showcase in all production meeting with client and Production teams.
-Staging and organization of all sets to be ready for early morning shoot calls.
-Organized all rental house pick-ups and merchandise returns.
-Close out paperwork for entire job.  



Costume Designer and production Design Assistant

Design: 
-Worked closely with Creative Director & VP of Sales to execute design direction and maintain as well as
elevate brands name for several private labels.
-Responsible for all market and trend research reports and trend boards to lead in Buyer Presentations.
-Daily communications w/ PD team, Tech Design, Production, & Graphic teams from proto to TOP sample development. 
-Responsible for creating tech packs, construction/ artwork/ trim detail and all call out detail pages, as well as generating style numbers for all new styles and updating BOM daily using PLM system. 
-All technical flat sketches, CADS & line-sheets for all new conceptual working styles and updates for all running styles.
-Sourced & developed new fabrications/wash/treatment testing & sampling both locally & overseas for quick SMS turnaround to show buyers and potential clients. 
-In charge of Lab dip requests for all seasonal palettes. Finalized color and fabric quality for production and bulk fabrics.
-Generated Buyer & Licensor tracking approvals for all styles.
-Scheduled fittings w/fit model & Production/ Tech teams from 1st fit proto to PP/TOP stages, as well as pre-lim & production
meetings with PD/Production teams for all new styles.

Associate Designer

Design: 
Worked directly with Head designer/Creative Director. Created all line sheets & CAD's. Developed SMS request 
logs and fabric logs for clear overseas factory communication. Created all specialty details pages & hand-off pages for tech design and factories for both development as well as production & bulk fabric approvals.
-Worked closely with local dye & wash-houses as well as overseas factories on SMS development including trying new wash
treatments, wash tests, and new fresh fabrication tests samples with overseas mill. 
-Responsible for all Brand Market research, trend research, sample shopping & returns, as well as expense reports for both head designer and myself. 
-Responsible to manage small office team of 4 employees to keep on calendar and meet all required deadlines.

Assistant Designer/ Cut & Sew Knits, Woven's, & Active-wear

-Close collaborative work with R & D Color team, as well as Digital Design team for flawless engineered print placement  & new fresh textile designs.
-Fee hand loose sketches, CADS, Line sheets maintenance. 
- Responsible new draping samples to show Creative Director every morning in design meetings.
 -Updating tech packs,scheduling fittings,& also was the stand in fit model in design meetings.
-Responsible for replenishment orders of fabrics for each monthly delivery and overseeing PD assistant in SMS sample tracking.
-Created mood/ inspiration boards, as well as conducting brand research weekly to keep on market trend.
-Generating Design cards, and all line-sheets for each monthly delivery for several lines.

Design/ Product Development Assistant, Women's Knit & Sweater Departments

-Spec'd, photographed, & logged all sample garments to log measurements and all design details for factory.
-Organizing mood boards, fabric cards, look-books, & conducted brand research.
-Manipulated and copied patterns in photoshop and illustrator, matched yarns and placed fabric and thread orders directly to yarn mills overseas. 
-Sample purchases and returns. 

Design Intern, Women's Woven, Knit, & Sweater Departments

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Rini Merdjanova: Freelance Designer in Los Angeles, CA

Rini Merdjanova

OTIS COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN