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Assistant Designer, Men’s Knitwear, White Label

New York, NYOnsiteFull Time$50,000–$60,000 /yrPosted 1 month ago

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Required skills

  • knitwear
  • shirting
  • fabric development
  • tailoring
  • Adobe Illustrator
  • Adobe Photoshop
  • organized
  • multi-task

Nice to have

  • knits garments

Role summary

Rag & Bone is seeking a Men's knitwear Assistant Designer with experience in shirting, fabric development, and tailoring. This role supports the Men's Designer with daily tasks and seasonal projects, including managing fabric development, creating seasonal boards, conducting trend and vintage research, and assisting with mock-ups and Tech Packs. The ideal candidate will be highly organized and proficient in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop, with a strong desire to work specifically within the knitwear product area.

Level/Title position is reporting into: 
Head of Design
Job Summary:  
 Rag & Bone is looking for a Men's knitwear Assistant with background or experience in shirting, fabric development and tailoring who will support Men’s Designer with daily tasks and seasonal projects
Responsibilities: 
 • Manage fabric design and development from hand loom through SMS fabric 
• Create and maintain seasonal boards (physical & digital versions) and keep boards 
updated after meetings and fittings. 
• Trend/Vintage research based on seasonal inspiration 
• Manage rentals, past protos and reference styles for meetings and reference. 
• Research for seasonal design concepts 
• Assist in design and set up of mock-ups and trials. 
• Assist in setting up of Tech Packs and sketches where necessary 
• Edit sketches in Adobe Illustrator and photoshop 
• Assist with sketch annotations for SMS (coordinating with Technical Designer to ensure 
all information is in-line with SMS Tech Packs) 
• Setting up and editing linesheets in Adobe Illustrator 
• Attending fittings when necessary (proto /SMS stage – assist in collating design 
information for Tech Packs) 
• Assist in ordering trim for SMS 
• Manage and organize trims/labels/combo fabrics etc for protos and sms 
• Manage storage/archive samples 
• Coordinate with sample room for any alterations for Show/Market 

Requirements: (skills, qualifications, education, etc) 
 • Must have technical knowledge of knitwear 
• Passion for shirting, fabric basics and different weaves a plus 
• Experience with knits garments
• Must have desire to work within knitwear specific product area 
• Must be extremely organized and have ability to multi-task 
• Must have thorough knowledge of Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop 
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