Matter Made is a product development, production, and manufacturing firm with offices in New York, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Delhi. We have ownership in a number of factories and an extensive network of over 1,000+ factory partners. We work from small to scale, partnering with celebrities, startups, speciality and established brands to bring their ideas to commercialization or optimize their existing production.

-Collaborate with creative director to create seasonal concepts for design/direction and styling/vision for lookbook shoots. -Prepare specs, approve tech packs, create cutting slips, fabric qualities, trim packs etc. for sampling and bulk production.-Created merchandising and assortment plans. -Negotiate with factories for price and delivery. Continuous communications with factories to maintain time and action calendar. -Travel overseas to make factory visits to ensure they meet our social compliance and factory audit standards. -Conduct fit meetings and communicate pattern and construction changes to factory.-Approvals of all lab dips, fits, fabric swatches/bulk, trims and construction and sewing quality. -Established margin goals for the brand. Created costing matrix and negotiated with factories to achieve prices to hit targets.-Create sales objectives to pass onto our sales team and motivate team each season.

We are a creative fashion firm whose focus is on bringing companies the best possible product for them to go to market with. We have a highly experienced team who are passionate about researching and honouring a brands heritage while pushing it forward to keep it a viable business in todays volatile market. We pride ourselves on our efficiency and have mastered quick turn around times to meet with the demands of our customers. We offer direction, design and product development services. Or choose our full package to ensure the best conception to sampling execution.

-Oversee design and production departments. Approved all Direction, Design and Product Development before moving forward. Set time and action calendars for both departments to ensure on-time delivery of samples and bulk production. -Responsible to work directly with overseas vendors/agents to launch and develop seasonal salesman samples.-In charge of determining vendor base to create value engineered product to be able to maintain set gross profit margin.-Oversee design and production departments. Approved all Direction, Design and Product Development before moving forward. Set time and action calendars for both departments to ensure on-time delivery of samples and bulk production. -Responsible to work directly with overseas vendors/agents to launch and develop seasonal salesman samples and place bulk. -In charge of determining vendor base to create value engineered product, to be able to maintain set gross profit margin.-Conducted on going trend research and shopping, to stay aware of competitive landscape and identify new business opportunities. -Present key concepts, items or promotional concepts that drive volume business and meet margin expectations.-Worked with sales team to identify their market needs and either incorporate into seasonal collection or build as special make ups. -Met with key accounts to get feedback on seasonal collections and create suggested buys to best represent the collection while meeting their margin expectations. -Approved all fits, workmanship, fabrics and washings for all salesman samples and bulk production. -Extensive overseas travel to research fabric innovations, visit washing factories, negotiated prices and place salesman samples and bulk production. -Be involved with licence contract negotiations with the licensor. -Lead and motivated team to hit calendar deadlines. Provided daily leadership to in office team.

-Design and merchandised apparel programs for the retail and wholesale division under multiple brand names.-Created branded and private label apparel to meet margin goals of wholesale customer, as well as meet internal margin goals. -Assessing the target market, looking into factors such as age, gender, and socioeconomic status, and creating trend right product for said segment of the market. -Extensive overseas travel related to fabric, trim and factory sourcing as well as price negotiations to meet margin demands. -Sales representative to major customers placing larger volume orders. -Leader of Product Development team involved in technical drawings, fit specifications, pattern making, and construction of samples or finished garments. -Examine sample garments on and off models; then modify design, construction or fit to achieve desired effects. -Computer generated tech packs including drawings of apparel with detailed specifications, such as colour schemes, construction, material types and trims. -Travelled extensively to Europe and the United States to research market trends at retail, attend fashion shows, reviewed garments, magazines/manuals and consulted Trend services to gather information about fashion trends and consumer preferences. -Purchase and provide reference samples for Agents and Sales Department for showing customers in meetings or fashion shows. -Sourced and determined the supply base for the manufacture of sample garments or sample lines for major customers, Agents or Sales Department. -Researched and visited textile showrooms to keep up to date on the latest fabric trends and technologies. -Arranged testing of fabrics domestically and overseas to determine the appropriate customer care label instructions that would conform to government regulations.

-Provide design and colour direction for Clients such as Marks Work Warehouse, Costco Canada, Dethrone Royalty, Vanity, etc. -Travel extensively to Europe and the United States to research market trends at Retail, attend fashion shows, review garment magazines/manuals and consult Trend Services to gather information about fashion trends and consumer preferences. -Apply current research through design to the diverse customer base geared to their specific target market. -Present key items to customers that meet their margin expectations and drive volume business. -Communicate directly with overseas factories for all aspects of sample making and bulk production when working directly or through an agent. -Factory visit to assess the quality of the workmanship and determine whether it can be approved and is socially compliant up to the standards of each individual customer. -Direct and coordinate workers involved in technical drawings, fit specifications, pattern making and construction of samples or finished garments. -Develop and generate major presentations to acquire new customers.

-Managed multi-brand shop-in-shop weekly replenishment in Athlete's World stores throughout Ontario, Quebec and Nova Scotia. -Reviewed the main computer system of the company to locate inventories. Using Excel and Word processing software to create a comprehensive analysis of the inventory and organized it in a format that was more efficient for the selection and distribution of goods to the shops. -Monitor and analyze sales records, trends and economic conditions to create seasonal buy. Responsible to determine what will preform at retail and how much inventory is needed based on its likelihood to sell. -Provide retail distribution staff with information to print on prices tags, such as price, mark-ups or mark-downs, manufacturer number, season code, or style number. -Analyze environmental aspect of competing merchandise when making buying decisions. -Co-ordinated retail expansion into full front retail operations. -Managed the distribution of goods, fixtures and signage to all retail outlets required.

-Monitored customer preferences to determine focus of sales effort.-Direct, coordinate and review in sales and services, accounting, record-keeping and in receiving and shipping operations. -Represent company at trade shows to promote product.-Resolve customer complaints regarding sales and service. -Project buys based on knowledge of trends and market direction.