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Design Director
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Philadelphia, PA, United States
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Free People: Design Director
Founded in 1984, Free People (www.FreePeople.com) is a women’s fashion label that operates wholesale, retail, and direct-to-consumer businesses. The retail and wholesale presence encompasses over 75 stores in the United States as well as three wholesale showrooms whose teams have cultivated relationships with over 1,400 specialty boutiques and department stores across the globe. In addition, we produce a direct-to-consumer catalog and website, providing an inspiring shopping experience for the carefree, confident, and curious young woman who appreciates our distinctive assortment of apparel and accessories.
Title: Design Director
Reports to: Managing Director
Objective: To oversee the creative development of all wholesale and retail Free People Collection.
Management Responsibilities:
• Teach and manage your designers in a positive and constructive manner while nurturing creativity at all levels
• Build and maintain strong partnerships with the other design departments, production, tech, merchandising, sales, agents
• Recruit and identify your needs for a strong design team so you have a group of designers who add value to the needs of your design categories
Creative Responsibilities:
• Initiate and direct all silhouette, print and fabric trend meetings for each season with team support. Recognize and accurately forecast fashion and cultural trends.
• Provide key outfits for every season
• Work with Color/Print team to establish color and print direction for each month, ensure that prints balance out the delivery as well as the colors.
• Work closely with Assistant Design Director/s , Senior Designers and their teams, providing inspiration and feedback for each season on a regular basis
• Be able to view collection as a whole and be able to identify any needs across divisions and balance line accordingly, keeping both creative and business objectives in mind
• Edit collection alongside Managing Director prior to presenting to Merchant teams
• Travel for inspiration and have group meetings to be able to show your samples and inspirations
• Coordinate periodic inspiration meetings where all design members participate.
Miscellaneous Responsibilities:
• Special projects as needed