Formal Outerwear

5 months ago


London, United Kingdom LF Fashion LTD Full time

**Formal Outerwear & Tailoring Designer**
- Competitive Salary
- Permanent - Full Time
- Monday to Friday - 37.5 hours a week
- Hybrid Working - 3 Days in the Office
- Based in London - White City, West London

We are now recruiting for a an experienced, passionate, and dedicated Designer specialising in formal outerwear and tailoring for the team based in London.

**About the Company**:
We are LF Fashion, part of Li & Fung, a world leader in the design, development, and sourcing of consumer goods. Li & Fung has more than 115 years of supply chain expertise, covering everything from product design and production management to quality control and shipping.

We're a global group encompassing many sectors of the retail market but what makes us unique is that we work As One.

**About the Role**:
The Formal Outerwear & Tailoring Design role is a very creative and independent role. We are looking for an experienced, creative, confident, and dedicated designer, who will work together hand in hand with the Account manager, Fabric specialist and offshore product development teams on seasonal collections, which are then presented to our main clients. This role is also part of the wider design team. As part of this design team, you will be working together on seasonal Colour, Fabric and Micro trends.

**We are looking for a Designer who is**:

- Experienced and has designed for any Highstreet fashion brand across formal outerwear and tailoring
- Commercially aware of current trends and have some fabric sourcing knowledge.
- An excellent communicator and someone who is comfortable working with colleagues and customers at all levels, including customers and factories and third parties based in the Far East and Europe
- Highly organised, efficient and able to work to tight deadlines
- Have experience working within in a fast-paced environment
- Proficient in using Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word & Excel), photoshop and Illustrator, 3D design skills are beneficial
- To have garment technical knowledge, and ability to generate detailed tech packs and indirectly manage of shore development team on daily bases to achieve required result.
- Driven and results orientated
- Proactive, positive and solutions focused
- Educated to degree level, ideally in a qualification related to fashion design, business or retail

**About the Recruitment Process**:
If this is a role you are interested in or if you believe this role could be a good match for you, we would love to hear from you.

The interview process will consist of two interviews and a design project:
Initial interview, with the hiring manager and a member of the HR team
- If successful in the initial interview, a design project will be set
- Second interview, in person, with the hiring manager and team

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- Life insurance
- Private medical insurance
- Work from home

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Application question(s):

- Do you have an outerwear & tailoring portfolio that you can share with us?

**Experience**:

- formal outerwear & tailoring design: 2 years (required)

Work Location: In person


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