Photo credit: Hal Bergman, 2021
Designer Bio
My career in fashion has put me in right in the middle of fashion and graphics, designing in multiple markets, categories, and mediums.
Originally from Exeter, New Hampshire, now I live in sunny California. Here's where I find inspiration from casual Los Angeles living, and sunny beach days.
A career highlight has bee creating a swimwear collection, Jacl LA. It's named after some dear lady friends in Los Angeles, sustainable swimwear for amazing ladies. They encouraged me to make suits that actually fit and makes you feel good when you try it on. I took the steps to build a company from the ground up, developing prints, bodies, and a marketing campaign. Loss of strategic partners due to COVID 19 stopped the project in it's tracks, despite being production ready for 2021 and having acquired pre-seed funding.
In addition to making best-selling designs and beautiful presentations, I have been recognized for innovative R and D, attention to detail, and high productivity. I am a proven leader and hope you will get the chance to see that I can bring all that creativity to help you build your business.
Please click below to find my current fashion and textile design CVs:
Skills
• Researching and fashion forecasting for trend and market needs
• Designing apparel, socks and accessories with expertise in prints, embroidery, and washes.
• Producing mood boards and beautiful concept presentations.
• Personal presentation of product in licensing and sales environments.
• Management and mentoring of design and sample teams, meshing with brand, merchandising, sales and production.
• Creation of comprehensive line-sheets and organizational systems.
• Styling for lifestyle, social and catalogue, photography and video.
• Hand sketching, Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign and Procreate mastery.
• Drafting paper first and production patterns with expertise in fit and construction.
• Generating detailed technical and spec packages for local and overseas production using Adobe, PLM, Winfashion and/or Excel.