Project Experience:
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EXPERIENCE
February 2010 Naomi Campbell's Fashion for Relief
Assistant Stylist
• Responsible for packing/transporting pieces to location. Organising correct fit for runway models.
• Managing show’s running order, ensuring models’ and celebrities’ hair and make-up styled promptly.
February 2010 London Fashion Week
Assistant Stylist: Todd Lynn Fall 2010 Ready-to-wear collection
• Assisted with backstage set-up and dressing models for shows under deadline pressure.
June 2009 - Feb 2010 Weber Shandwick
PR Assistant
• Assisted with GMTV project, styling for a TV shoot as part of marketing for major supermarket chain.
• Liaising with national/regional media and journalists, through correspondence and face-to-face meetings. Broadening consumer team’s reach through market research.
June - July 2008 10eleven, Los Angeles
Showroom Assistant
• Maintaining contemporary designer garments. Conducting research and administration duties.
Jan - Mar 2008 M&R Agencies
Showroom Assistant
December 2007 Harvey Nichols
Ladieswear Sales Advisor
November 2007 Marks & Spencer Press Day
Freelance Assistant Stylist
Sep - Nov 2007 Vogue, New York
Fashion Internship Programme
• Awarded a coveted fashion internship place. Assisting senior editors with daily duties.
• Assisting senior stylists on magazine shoots. Ensuring garments are organised and packed.
• Collecting sample pieces from showrooms and organising returns for used/ unwanted garments.
Researching new collections and themes for editorial use.
September 2007 Bergdorf Goodman, New York
Fashion Events Assistant
• Assisting with organisation and set-up of events and guest list. Greeting and guiding guests.
June 2006 - Aug 2007 Belvoir Terrace Fine & Performing Arts Camp, Massachusetts
Fashion & Arts Teacher
• Creating fun and safe environment for young campers in and out of studio. Organising lessons, appropriate for age groups and assisting with problems.
• Organised summer fashion show including set design and music, ensuring all garments were completed.
April - May 2007 Esquire
Menswear Fashion Intern/Freelance Stylist
• Assistant stylist for magazine shoots. Gained published by-lines in magazine’s Style pages.
• Organising garments from showrooms and researching new editorial themes.
Dec 2006 - Mar 2007 Mulberry
Sales & Customer Services Advisor
Dec 2003 - Jan 2006 Selfridges & Co.
Menswear Sales & Alterations Advisor
• Selected as personal assistant to liaise with high profile/VIP clientele and TV stylists.
• Alterations on formalwear. Visual merchandising. Fashion Assistant for in-store fashion shows.
EDUCATION
2004 – 2009 University of Derby
BA (Hons) Fashion Studies (inc. one semester at IULM University of Milan & achieved DPP Diploma)
• Gained industry skills in styling, buying, merchandising, pattern construction, menswear design, marketing and promotion.
• Designed/produced entire men’s formalwear final year collection. Worked with professional tailor to enhance technical design skills.
• Scheduled/styled photo shoot for menswear collection: organising models, photographer and assistants.
ACHIEVEMENTS & POSITIONS OF RESPONSIBILITY
• Showed collections at Alternative Fashion Week and Graduate Fashion Week.
• Work displayed in EU offices.
• Fashion Studies Course Representative for two years at university.
• Organising fundraising events for Cancer Research UK
INTERESTS & ACTIVITIES
• Fashion: Catwalk shows, exhibitions, interior design.
• Culture: Travel, film, international cuisine, art.
References available upon request
