Kayla Hedwall Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

New York, New York

•Designing and developing the launch of women's intimates, sleepwear/loungewear, fleece and base layers under the Lee® brand license to be sold at mass, club and off-price retailers.•Also covering other dept's needs designing men's, women’s & kids base layers for mass market licensed brands.

New York, New York

•Designed women's Intimates, Sleepwear & Loungewear for the plus-size mature customer; sold directly via catalog and online.

New York, New York

• Design on-trend, cost-conscious panties and bras for juniors, ladies and girls• Create new seamless pattern repeats, graphic hits, multiple color ways and options• Organize design process from concept through production; updating line sheets, cads • Shop the market for trends, propose new concepts for bodies/colors/artwork to buyers• Work with overseas factories: send final artwork, tech packs, approve lab dips, strikeoffs, PP/TOP samples, new body costing/development and fit samples• Attend fittings for development of new panties, bras, sleepwear, work w/tech design team • Travel to clients to make exciting and brand-right presentations for new product• Design for value/off-price brands such as rue21, Family Dollar, CitiTrends, and in-house private labels sold to TJ Maxx, Amazon, etc

New York, New York

• Sole designer of juniors cotton/spandex panty program with client rue21

Greater New York City Area

• Design/technical forward position creating tech packs for juniors cut and sew contemporary dresses/separates • Updated sketches, collaborated with patternmakers• Tracked fit samples from design to production, working with local NYC factories

Portland, Oregon

• A women's tailoring boutique and design studio owned & run by OSU Apparel Design graduates.• Contract seamstress piece work; altering RTW clothing to perfectly fit customers.• Hemming jeans and slacks, taking up sleeves, taking in skirts and dresses, and more.

Portland, Oregon

• Contract Assistant Designer with apparel design agency in Portland; www.exit-21.com• Create new tech packs based off of carryover styles from previous seasons.• Assist in fit sessions, fabric library maintenance, design meeting presentation board creation.• Assist in tech flat creation, color merchandising pages, trims and materials updates.• Manage work for multiple brands and seasons at a time, keeping everything organized.• Help bring Exit 21's new product management system, YuGen, to current seasons for easier communication between agency, brand, and factories.Additional contract work: 01/2014-07/2014

Clackamas, Oregon

Clackamas, Oregon

Portland, Oregon

• Contract Assistant Technical Designer for Greenlayer Sportswear project.• Attended fit sessions, took notes on changes of Men's and Women's athletic wear.• Measured prototype garments, added Tech Designer's changes to tech packs.• Created images on Illustrator to convey changes to factories in China.• Assisted with entire line of garments (through 3rd or 4th prototypes) until all were fit approved.

Beaverton, Oregon

ETW (External Temporary Worker) at Nike, Inc. via PRO Unlimited:• Received graphic strike-offs for children's apparel to review, revise and correct.• Facilitated weekly review meeting with graphic designers and PLMs.• Worked with graphic team to find solutions to issues with the strike-offs.• Updated spec sheets with new graphic info, communicated that feedback to PCC's.• Reviewed Development Submit samples: checked construction details, logo placement and specific measurements for all SP15 Sport/Sportswear styles, updated spec sheets.• Reviewed select Proto samples and updated specs to ease workload of Senior Tech Designers.

Portland, Oregon

• Assisted with the business and technical side of this independent bridal designer's business.• Creative Photoshop design work, blogging, social media, main website, Etsy and Shopify.• Organized the studio, completed small sewing and patterning tasks. • Helped prepare for NYC International Bridal Market in Oct. 2013 by creating materials needed for the buyers: line sheet packet, look book, size charts, business cards, advertising materials.• Brought unison to the brand by designing an entire new website - incorporating a shop, portfolio, blog, current events and press page into one streamlined website based on Squarespace platform

Corvallis, Oregon

Corvallis, Oregon

Corvallis, Oregon

Remote

• Remote internship at an online fashion blogging website targeted to stylish college students.• Searched the OSU campus to find stylish girls to photograph and write an article about. • Posts can be viewed here: http://www.collegefashion.net/author/kayla/

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Apparel Design, 3.77 Gpa - Magna Cum Laude

Major in apparel design. Concentrated studies in merchandising management, theatre arts, costume design, and French. Active in choir.

High School, Arts & Communications, 4.0 Gpa - Valedictorian