Jade Jackson Email and Phone Number

• Design fully in 3D CLO, ensuring garments are accurate to reduce sampling lead times and errors. • Designing the girl’s mainline assortment including all casualwear such as knits, wovens, sweaters, outerwear & tween• Supporting the design director with concept, trendforecasting, fabric research & development• Present the design range during the development process to the design director & senior leadership• Ownership of the design process from SKU plan to sampling, managing the product line sheets, PLM Centric & CLO 3D designs• Creative direction & approval of graphic, woven jacquard, sweater fairisle & print design• Working with the Buyers to ensure that sale needs are met while looking for opportunities to improve growth in challenging areas• Collaborating with Product Development to ensure all designs have a healthy, strong IMU to boost product profits• Ensure constructional execution of all designs by attending garment fittings & tech passes with the technical design team• Proven track record of creating bestseller products that are commercial, age appropiate & right for the JF brand image• Driving innovation in “fashion” categories, creating excitement with new opportunites in tween, capsules & collaborations• Consistently meet all design calendar deadlines, while remaining agile with changes and challenges• Enrolled in the “People Leader Development Program” to further my influence, leadership & communication skills

After my contract ended at John Lewis, I decided to take a break to explore the world. This experience has opened my eyes and developed me in many ways beneficial to myself and work and resulted in me moving to Toronto, Canada where I am now a citizen.

• Ownership of designing the “John Lewis Man” casualwear range, presenting all trend, colour, fabrication & design development• Designing knits, wovens, sweaters, outerwear & active as well as all jacquard, fairisle & print designs in house• Creating all BOMs, technical design detail packs & working directly with CMs & technical design team• The John Lewis Man Range outperformed all other categories within the fashion department in terms of profit & margin

• Assisted all designers in casualwear, formalwear, lounge, active & limited labels• Producing all colour and presentation books, collaborating with designers on concept & garment boards• Attending fabric tradeshows, presenting new fabrication & textile innovations to the team• Assisted all designers with their BOMs, technical design packs & product development with factories

• Designing all prints & textiles for all three menswear brands - “John lewis Man”, “John Lewis & Co” & “Kin by John Lewis”• Creating distinctive print identities to give an authentic handwriting for each brand through original, vintage & archive work• Extensive technical knowledge in designing sweater fairisle designs in specialist software• Designing all in house woven jacquards, stripes and graphics