Assistant Designer, Men’s Knitwear, White Label

rag & bone, Inc.; New York, Northern (NY, KY); Hybrid; USD 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

rag & bone, Inc. is seeking a Men's knitwear Assistant with background in shirting, fabric development and tailoring to support the Men’s Designer with daily tasks and seasonal projects.

You will manage fabric design and development through SMS, create seasonal boards, conduct trend research, and assist with tech packs, sketches, fittings, trims, and line sheets.

Qualifications

• Must have technical knowledge of knitwear.
• Interest in shirting, fabrics and different weaves.
• Experience with knits garments.
• Desire to work in knitwear-focused product area.
• Extremely organized with multi-tasking ability.
• Thorough knowledge of Illustrator and Photoshop.

Responsibilities

• Manage fabric design and development from hand loom through SMS fabric.
• Create and maintain seasonal boards (physical & digital versions).
• Conduct trend and vintage research based on seasonal inspiration.
• Coordinate rentals, protos and reference styles for meetings.
• Assist in design concepts, mock-ups, and trials.
• Set up and edit linesheets in Illustrator; assist with Tech Packs.
• Edit sketches for SMS; coordinate with Technical Designer for SMS packs.
• Attend fittings and collate design information for Tech Packs.
• Order trim for SMS; manage trims/labels and fabrics for protos and SMS.
• Organize storage/archive samples; coordinate with sample room for show/market.

Skills

Knitwear knowledge

Shirting

Fabric basics

Different weaves

Knits garments experience

Knitwear product area focus

Organizational skills

Multitasking

Tools

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Photoshop

Job description

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