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Brooklyn, New York

Brooklyn, NY

Brooklyn

Brooklyn, NY

New York, NY

• Designed and produced eight seasons of leather handbags and small leather goods, while also collaborating with other brands and companies.
• Managed ecommerce site, sales, merchandising, marketing, social media, and photo shoots ensuring brand consistency.
• Built and ran trade show booths and established wholesale relationships with buyers.
• Prepared and managed budgets, seasonal cost charts, profit margins and accounting, including negotiating costs to ensure targets and deadlines are met.
• Determined sourcing strategy and engaged suppliers based on introduction of new categories, or as needed following performance assessments. Communicated daily with domestic agents, factories and suppliers.
• Featured in Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Elle, In Style, and The New York Times; carried by notable retailers in 4 different countries.

Brooklyn, NY

• Worked alongside store managers and supervised associate merchandisers to help drive sales by providing a high level aesthetic of visual and merchandising standards.
• Created mood boards, crafting ideas, mockups, and inspiration for window design and store layout for installation by assistant visual merchandisers.
• Contributed visual ideas and retained all reference materials for window design and styling ideas.
• Remerchandised floor based on inventory levels and reacted to selling trends.
• Designed Brooklyn location store expansion; assisted and merchandised build out of new Manhattan location.

New York, NY

• Transitioned retail store into strictly ecommerce business by managing the website and liaising directly with web developer.
• Updated inventory on website as well as edited images using Photoshop.
• Styled and coordinated photo shoots with models, hair and makeup, photographers and lighting.
• Managed showrooms, merchandising meetings and events.
• Obtained knowledge on size, fit and make of over 80 different brands in order to effectively communicate with customers based on their individual requirements.

New York, New York

• Calculated and analyzed handbag sales for department stores and specialty boutiques using Orco and Excel.
• Created PowerPoint presentations for head designers in Milan.

New York, NY

• Assisted the Sales Associates to reconcile weekly and monthly sales through data entry and running reports.
• Provided product knowledge at market appointments and on the sales floor.

New York, NY

• Assisted with designs for upcoming collections.
• Utilized garment construction, sewing, draping, and flat pattern skills.

Associate Degree, Accessories Design

Bachelor Of Science, Textile Design