You need excellent computer skills, organization, time management, trend focus, flexibility, brand understanding, and a strong team player for the Menswear Design Assistant role at Jaded London.

You will assist the design team with sketching, fittings, and technical details, keeping up with trends, creating prints, and organizing samples, fabrics, and trims. Stay organized, creative, and proactive in a fast-paced menswear design setting.

Creative Arts & Fashion

United Kingdom

London

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Jaded LDN is a fashion brand that transcends conventional boundaries by creating contemporary, bold clothing designs. The company is dedicated to crafting unique and expressive fashion pieces that resonate with a diverse audience. With a focus on innovation and individuality, Jaded LDN's ultimate goal is to inspire confidence and self-expression through their distinctive clothing collections. By blending streetwear aesthetics with high-fashion elements, the brand strives to empower individuals to embrace their personal style and make a statement in the ever-evolving world of fashion.

Fashion & Arts

Jaded London

Fashion

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Overview:<ul><li>Supports the Menswear Design team, researching and creating new and innovative commercial ideas, creating mood boards, new prints, and starting workbooks for factories for production.</li></ul>Responsibilities and Duties:<ul><li>Working closely with the design and production teams to ensure an efficient workflow of designs, prints, and sample production.</li><li>Assist and help research, and produce clear and detailed technical sketches.</li><li>Assist in fittings, taking notes, and updating technical sketches on illustrator.</li><li>Demonstrate a strong understanding of the design identity in line with Jaded London, provide a sense of colours and details, and deliver a high awareness of current trends.</li><li>Continually researches new and innovative commercial ideas on a continual basis through sources; Instagram, Depop, catwalk, research trips, etc.</li><li>Creates weekly ‘new in’ reports on a timely basis.</li><li>Works efficiently to create 20 ideas per day to be sketched on CAD via Adobe illustrator.</li><li>Demonstrates creativity in-line with the brand, creating print design mood boards with new ideas.</li><li>Creates new prints from scratch and sets up prints for production.</li><li>Makes a start on creating four workbooks a day for factories for production, to be passed to Designers.</li><li>Makes amends to sketches post fit sessions, updating the critical path with information from factories.</li><li>Supports the designers in all tasks as requested, including sourcing fabrics and trims.</li><li>Ensures general office tidiness is maintained with samples put away correctly, filing fabrics, and keeping the workplace organised.</li></ul>Requirements:<ul><li>Computer Skills: Photoshop, Illustrator, CAD</li><li>Experience in designing for an aspirational brand or a similar</li><li>Experience working across print categories</li><li>Ability to work across a variety of mediums</li><li>Strong commercial handwriting and understanding of the Jaded Man customer</li><li>Fashion forward-thinking and directional trend print eye</li><li>Brilliant time management and resilience, with the ability to prioritise tasks and work in fast moving and reactive business with multiple deadlines</li><li>Ability to communicate confidently, effectively, and appropriately with colleagues, suppliers, wider team &amp;&nbsp;senior&nbsp;management</li><li>Good personal handwriting and the ability to be versatile and adapt to a variety of styles. Evidence of this in portfolio is essential</li><li>Have an excellent eye for detail and colour</li></ul>Benefits:<ul><li>50% Employee Discount</li><li>24 days holiday per year (plus bank holidays)</li><li>A paid day off on your birthday</li><li>A paid moving day per year</li><li>Hybrid&nbsp;Working Arrangements - 1 day per week WFH</li><li>Pension Scheme (3% Jaded, 4% You)</li><li>Bonus Scheme</li><li>Employee Assistance Programme for you and your family</li><li>£500 employee referral bonus scheme</li><li>Local Business Discounts (joe and the juice, cafés, fitness, beauty etc)</li><li>North-West London office location directly located next to good transport links</li><li>Casual office dress code (your style of dress is up to you, wear what you feel best in)</li><li>Fully-stocked kitchens and fridges (hello endless brekkie and snack supply, see ya afternoon munchies)</li><li>Regular Office Social Events (e.g. payday socials)</li></ul>

Overview:Supports the Menswear Design team, researching and creating new and innovative commercial ideas, creating mood boards, new prints, and starting workbooks for factories for production.Responsibilities and Duties:Working closely with the design and production teams to ensure an efficient workflow of designs, prints, and sample production.Assist and help research, and produce clear and detailed technical sketches.Assist in fittings, taking notes, and updating technical sketches on illustrator.Demonstrate a strong understanding of the design identity in line with Jaded London, provide a sense of colours and details, and deliver a high awareness of current trends.Continually researches new and innovative commercial ideas on a continual basis through sources; Instagram, Depop, catwalk, research trips, etc.Creates weekly ‘new in’ reports on a timely basis.Works efficiently to create 20 ideas per day to be sketched on CAD via Adobe illustrator.Demonstrates creativity in-line with the brand, creating print design mood boards with new ideas.Creates new prints from scratch and sets up prints for production.Makes a start on creating four workbooks a day for factories for production, to be passed to Designers.Makes amends to sketches post fit sessions, updating the critical path with information from factories.Supports the designers in all tasks as requested, including sourcing fabrics and trims.Ensures general office tidiness is maintained with samples put away correctly, filing fabrics, and keeping the workplace organised.Requirements:Computer Skills: Photoshop, Illustrator, CADExperience in designing for an aspirational brand or a similarExperience working across print categoriesAbility to work across a variety of mediumsStrong commercial handwriting and understanding of the Jaded Man customerFashion forward-thinking and directional trend print eyeBrilliant time management and resilience, with the ability to prioritise tasks and work in fast moving and reactive business with multiple deadlinesAbility to communicate confidently, effectively, and appropriately with colleagues, suppliers, wider team & senior managementGood personal handwriting and the ability to be versatile and adapt to a variety of styles. Evidence of this in portfolio is essentialHave an excellent eye for detail and colourBenefits:50% Employee Discount24 days holiday per year (plus bank holidays)A paid day off on your birthdayA paid moving day per yearHybrid Working Arrangements - 1 day per week WFHPension Scheme (3% Jaded, 4% You)Bonus SchemeEmployee Assistance Programme for you and your family£500 employee referral bonus schemeLocal Business Discounts (joe and the juice, cafés, fitness, beauty etc)North-West London office location directly located next to good transport linksCasual office dress code (your style of dress is up to you, wear what you feel best in)Fully-stocked kitchens and fridges (hello endless brekkie and snack supply, see ya afternoon munchies)Regular Office Social Events (e.g. payday socials)

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