July 1st- July 5th

Projects

This week I mainly worked on projects that have been given to me throughout my internship. Majority of the company was off due to the holiday and this is when personal time off is used each year.

One of the projects I continued to work on is for the technical design team and this is updating their spec sheets and Web PDM database. I was given a list of silhouettes to sketch and then I had to add the specific measurements and the unique specifications for each garment using Adobe illustrator. Once I finished all of that I then took the black and white sketch and created an excel spreadsheet to use as a master guide. This master guide will have all of the garment’s descriptions, sketch, measurements, and vendor information. This master guide will be used for the TD, PD & Planning teams ease of knowing which garment is which.

Once I completed all I could in that project I then started on a project given by the Senior Executive for the Creative design & PD team, Holly Erickson. This project consists of communicating with the vendors. In the past week we had a meeting choosing which trims and laces would fit the theme for the March/April collections. Holly presented which ones she liked best and then foundations and dressy sleep collaborated to come up with the best trim.

My job was then to scan each trim/lace into the computer and then email the pictures along with questions about the actual trim so that I could update our excel sheet to communicate with all the teams the cost and information. I also asked the vendors for additional color ways and fabrics that would go along with our upcoming themes. The vendors seem to be very quick with their responses and sourced additional fabrics very quickly.

My other project given to me by Holly was to update the competitive shopping guide. I first researched all the companies I was given and wrote down which categories that specific company fit (active, dressy sleep, casual sleep, etc.). Once I got all the information needed, I then created a clickable excel sheet that can be filtered and searched by whatever means the person searching needs. I had over 300 companies with data researched in this sheet. This was very time consuming, but in the end it turned out very presentable and professional, much better than before.  

Fittings

I attended fit sessions during this week. There was a problem with the vendor. The vendor was not doing all of the corrections that TD sent to them from the first fit session so then the sourcing team sent out an email telling the vendor that this is no longer acceptable and that the garment sample sent will no longer be fit unless the sample meets all the requested changes.

VP Touch Base

I then had a touch base with Janet Jack who is the VP of Product Development and Merchandising. She went over her tasks and the direction in which she took to get to the position she is in now. Janet is the one who came up with the idea of not having a position for a designer. She believes that the practices are best using the product development as the designer as well, since the silhouettes do not change much. She believes that it is best to have one president who sees everything “one eye” this way the same goal is achieved.  Janet would like me to shadow her with all of the executives in the upcoming week.