Hiroko Kato Email and Phone Number

• Work with Visual Merchandising Director to create décor installations at the San Francisco location.• Responsible to assist with store / window displays refresh.

• Assist stylist on all photo/video shoots wherever needed.• Accountable for picking clothing and accessories for editorial features and advertisements.

• Work with Visual Merchandising District Manager to create décor installations at the San Francisco location.• Responsible to assist with monthly store / window displays refresh.

• Manage all visual merchandising displays in Berkeley and Larkspur Landing locations.• Assist customers with merchandise selections to build relationship with customers.

• Conceptualized, planned and implemented soft furnishings for Lo & Behold groups’ restaurants revamp as well as monthly decorative refresh and floral arrangements.• Curated store merchandise and planned visual displays over Grafunkt’s two outlets• Liaised with suppliers and contractors from concept to fruitation while maintaining time, cost and quality control.

• Lead personnel for developing, implementing and maintaining Ralph Lauren stores’ interior decoration design throughout Japan, overseeing the entire process from conception to construction, launch to post-mortem.• Managed third-party relationships, e.g. architecture, installation & construction firms• Accountable for budgets and cost-effectiveness

• Managed North California stores’ overall aesthetic, including but not limited to in-store & window display, merchandise display and marketing display• Ensured that corporate visual merchandising was implemented correctly and effectively, while constantly building on creativity to raise the bar for ‘top store’.• Set, monitor and follow up on productivity goals and objectives for the each store ‘s team, with the aim of maximizing sales and productivity

• Responsible for all apparel merchandising displays.• Monitored weekly sales and managed merchandising strategies to implement into daily merchandising replacements.• Coordinated and participated in creating window designs and internal displays.

• Liaison between Polo Ralph Lauren US, Japan and three licensees to forecast, interpret and manage foreign market needs/requests. Line-of-business include menswear, womenswear, children & home.• Developed visual merchandising guidelines and for Ralph Lauren US & Japan wholesale outlets, and traveled to Japan every quarter to conduct training sessions• Assisted in visual merchandising for US new store openings and seasonal refreshes

• Responsible for all visual merchandising and VM training in DKNY SoHo• In charge of implementing in-store displays in SoHo, Madison, New Jersey and Donna Karan Collection stores• Assisted in the VM training manual for DKNY stores worldwide