What are the responsibilities and job description for the TECHNICAL DESIGNER – APPAREL position at Design Observer?
You love patterning and constructing garments. You understand fit, shaping and technical garment construction techniques but also like to push the limits of classical patterning rules to create new constructions and approaches to building garments. What sets you apart is your passion for the technical details, the desire to create a look that is novel coupled with your hands-on experience in prototyping wearable garments out of a wide variety of technical fabrics. You can sew and are equally interested in a bonded seam construction. You can pattern to any body type. You love the power a physical sample holds to move an idea forward. You take the initiative and are team oriented. You have a keen understanding of materials and the impact they will have on how you will pattern. You want to bring concepts to life in way that can be efficiently produced. You love a challenge. You sweat the details because you want to deliver solutions that exceed our client’s expectations.
What You’ll Do
What You’ll Do
- Work on innovation apparel design projects in sportswear, fashion, wearables, aerospace and equipment
- Design, pattern and build novel apparel pieces
- Define and build detail construction samples for wide variety of technical garments
- Work from a concept drawing to create functional garments for client Creative Reviews and Innovation Launches
- Build presentation assets and communication tools that clearly describe decision making and design solutions
- Construct tech pack assets showing process and construction details
- Continually grow your knowledge of textile/material properties and garment construction techniques
- Deliver the highest quality output with attention to all construction and material details
- Speed
- Background in patterning and building garments as a professional tailor, fashion house sample maker, or in technical sportswear garment construction, or equivalent experience
- Experience building production ready garments from a concept drawings/creative direction
- Ability to build 2D patterns from scratch for a variety of apparel types – experience creating patterns in CAD software (rhino, Fusion, CLO etc) is a plus
- Comfort designing and building garments from technical stretch fabrics, fabric laminates, foam package materials, 3D meshes, shell fabrics and heavy weight materials
- Attention to detail that results in a high-level output quality and consistent fit and finish of samples
- Industrial sewing machine experience comfort in a wide range of machines
- Creative problem solving focused on isolating the design problem and building a set of physical prototypes to evaluate potential solutions
