Working for a design consultancy alongside colleges as part of a girlswear design team sourcing, researching and creating range concepts specifically for Marks and Spencers. Handling licensed brands such as Hello Kitty, Charlie & Lola, Disney, Peppa Pig and new upcoming character licenses.My Role includes having strong trend awareness, buying trips, building relationships with buyers to incorporate world famous brands and translating them into seasonal fashion trends exclusively for the M&S customer. I help as part of a small team to produce quarterly seasonal trend presentations at a professional standard to buyers and departments.I have to identify highstreet customers and have to produce an in store range for each licenced character including daywear outfits, nightwear, underwear and accessories inc footwear also considering unique selling points including add on accessories designed alongside garments.I produce spec sheets for factories and approve strike offs as well as work on exclusive design concept projects for all ages for the likes of Disney and Swarovski crystals and make sure my general office duties are up to date.

Designing girls wear and boys wear ranges on the brand licensing accounts of Dora the Explorer, Barbie, My Little Pony, Simpsons, DC Comics, Scooby Doo, Angelina Ballerina, and Nintendo for customers such as Tesco, NEXT, Sportsworld, JJB, Instore, Mackays, BHS, Sainsubury's TU, Asda, Dunnes, M&M Direct, Heatons, Littlewoods and M&S.My role includes regular design and creative meetings with existing and potential customers. shop reports, sourcing new shapes, fabrics and fabric techniques and from that creating mood boards and concept ideas covering all aspects of seasonal clothing using a range of fabrics including jersey, wovens, knitwear and denim. Designing strong commercial t-shirt graphics as well as creating time plans and drawing up specification sheets and artworks for a number of international factories.

Role- Nightwear designer:Designing for Lasenza, NEXT, New Look, House of Fraser, TKMAXX and BHS.My role consisted of identifying the customer, working closely along side buyers and conducting shop research. Designing T-shirt graphics/logos, embroideries and all over prints. I had to research and source the latest fashion trends whilst looking for potential customers and carrying out general office duties.I have gained experience designing for men, women, maternity, babies, and sportswear. This included designing for boys and girls as well and womens casual wear for Austin Reed, Blooming Marvellous, Chilli Pepper and an in-house brand label ‘Looking glass'. I was able to create my own characters as well as using licensed brands.I have had helped on a stand at Pure trade fair for two years in a row and attended brand licensing shows and have been the stylist for regular photo shoots for the ‘Looking Glass' brand as a sold concession in Topshop.

Designing within a team of designers creating new ideas and concepts for Women's and Children's Underwear/Nightwear and children's outerwear including packaging using a number of popular licensed brands for stores such as NewLook, Dunnes, NEXT, Tammy, Mothercare, Adams, Woolworths, Mackays and Sainsburys TU.I can identify types and weights of fabrics and speak directly to factories sourcing garment details and discussing construction. Drawing up specification sheets for the factories around Europe and the Far East.I have been on buying trips to New York, Barcelona and Copenhagen to research ideas, buy samples, go to trade shows and find new fabric techniques to translate into original, creative concepts.

in the staff canteen, in which I was the supervisor and had the responsibility of all money dealings and overall runnings.