Francesca Macari Email & Phone Number

United Kingdom

Lancaster, England, United Kingdom

Authenticating designer goods, visual merchandising, photographing and styling products for online content, maintaining leather goods, styling advisor to client, processing transactions,creating window displays, managing client accounts, managing social media, administrative work

Sketching, designing garments, creating tech packs, liaising with suppliers, CADING up designs using Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop, digital colour-ups of prints, research for the theme, fabric and colour for the collection, managing colour standards and archive, updating sample tracker, attending fit sessions + sample cutting.

Assisted with research with regards to concept, colour and fabric, created mood boards, produced and amended CAD designs, hand drawing sketches/development of outerwear, produced prints, digital colour-ups of CADs, updated design packs for new styles and updated technical packs from fittings.

London, United Kingdom

My position within the Womenswear Department was as an assistant to all members of the design team. My role here varied on a daily-basis, with duties ranging from collecting and presenting inspiration research, attending weekly trade meetings, using photoshop and illustrator to complete CAD drawings and prints, pattern drafting, collating fabric and trims, as well as assisting with designing items within the collections.

London, United Kingdom

During my time at Harper's Bazaar, my role as an Intern in the Fashion Department varied on a daily basis:Researching and producing content for online fashion galleries, liaising with PR companies and fashion brands, returning items, organising the fashion cupboard, assisting fashion team, assisting on photoshoots, picking up samples, producing trend reports, arranging mood boards

Interned in the sampling room. Previously I have worked on the Spring/Summer 2016 Collection as well as helping with the Pre-Fall 2016 Collection.I was selected to accompany the Accessories Department to a trip to Bologna. This was to visit the factories in which the accessories are produced. My responsibility was to liaise with several manufacturers in Italy and retrieve the products in preparation for the Pre-Fall photoshoot. My duties varied, ranging from; tracing patterns, pattern cutting, hand sewing, sending fabrics to suppliers, assisting the accessory department, general errands, sampling, stock counts, assisting in fittings as well as working on the sample sale and London Fashion Week

The University Of Leeds

On a weekly basis I wrote fashion articles for both print and online. This included columns like 'Accessory of the Week' and 'How to do a don't'.

Bachelor'S Degree, Fashion Design

Education record

Activities and Societies: [May 2012] Duke of Edinburgh Silver Award