Fashion Designer (Women's Contemporary)

Headquartered in Vernon, California, Lost + Wander is recognized as leading designer, distributor, and retailer and known for its feminine silhouettes paired with signature floral prints and ruffles. Lost + Wander offers trend driven design, craftsmanship and attention to detail at a compelling value to our customers. We are proud to be a female owned/ multi-cultural team and values diversity and equal rights to all our employees and business partners. We would love to bring in a hardworking, loyal, and honest individual to our team with below qualities:

Your responsibilities:

• Create design direction and fabric/trim selections into designs for upcoming seasons.
• Create original flat sketches based on upcoming trends and mainstream designs
• Work with sample rooms and vendors to monitor and track samples, ensuring information on tech pack is accurately translated into development samples
• Research trends and bring in new ideas through competitive shopping, forecasting websites, and runway shows
• Research and source on latest trend of fabric, trim, and embellishments and present to the team
• Create tech packs with detailed specifications that include garment measurements, construction details, and trim/fabric information
• Create cost sheets and product lists on Excel before the season launch
• Organize all the design materials in the library.

Our expectations from you:

• Must have a Bachelor’s or Associates degree in Fashion Apparel Design
• Must have 5+ years of Fashion Design experience with Women's contemporary brand
• Must have strong design aesthetic, color sense, and conceptual skills
• Ability to create flat sketches by hand and illustrations in CAD
• Must be proficient in Photoshop, Illustrator, Excel, and Word
• Basic garment construction knowledge required
• Comprehensive knowledge of silhouettes, fabrication, color/print usage, graphics, embellishment layouts, and trim required
• Flexibility to adapt in a well to fast paced, rapidly changing work environment
• Must be a team player, open to take direction, and able to work well under pressure, but also able to work solely with leadership.

We are looking for:

• You love complexity and strategy and are excited about continual improvement
• You are goal achiever, and you can also roll up your sleeves, dig in and get the job done
• Experience working in a small but high growth environment
• Organized, trustworthy and responsible with the tasks given
• Work with a sense of urgency-strong time management
• Someone who is positive and not a Debbie downer.

Benefits & Perks:

• Medical, dental, vision insurance for eligible employees
• Paid vacation, sick, holidays for all employees
• Employee discount up to 60% off
• 401K