Concept John Varvatos menswear line
Featuring styles I helped design for the brand
While finishing up spring quarter of my first year at SCC, I was honored to start interning for 3.1 Phillip Lim’s WRTW department. Remotely and part time from May 2021-June 2021, on-site and full time from June 2021-Oct 2021. I conducted design research under design team direction, assisted design team creating, editing, and organizing CADs (detail sketches/color ups), supported design team with mock ups and samples (CAD and physical sewing), assisted in creating digital and physical presentations for design team, sourced fabrics and trims online and within garment district and incorporated feedback and critique from teammates to all areas of work. Working close with the tight-knit team really helped me understand the in’s and out’s of how designers played a role in relation to the patternmaking, fabric, business, and technical teams. I also learned how to better communicate with your team through design and presentation, in order to deliver an effective product.
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Design by me and team
Design by me and team
Design by me and team
Design by me and team
Sample moodboard by me to gather starting ideas for the MJJ 2022 Pre-Fall collection for the team
Snippet of daily research required by head of design done by me. Images are gathered based on certain looks and design details the team was trying to achieve. Vintage images were preferred by the team.
One step in of our process was making changes to samples when we started making CADs. The team communicated these changes to me in this instance by noting changes on fit images.
Here’s the final CAD by me; many of our CADs focused more on looking like flat floats and how they will present to buyers on a line sheet.
Here’s a sample a sewed. Under the direction of the team, I provided different pleated options physically and when I later translated this look into a CAD.
My final CAD for the blouse I sewed and edited.
In creating this peacoat, edits were made to an existing men’s coat from the brand. I would translate these changes to a CAD, while working with the technical team on the fit changes they needed.
Here’s the final CAD and detail sheet written by me, under the guidance of the team.
Segment of the FMA 2022 line sheet I organized on InDesign for buyers.
In other instances, I worked on drapes for the company. Here was a step in the process of creating a bra for one of our MJJ vests.
The bra from our Pre-Fall 2022 season
Here are multiple options of hand embellishments assembled by me for our Spring 2022 line.
The final embellishment choices for our Spring 2022 collection
Here’s a photoshop mockup of a jacket sample I made for our team. We wanted to present as many fabric pattern options as possible.
I was often tasked with creating multiple CAD pattern options for our team to decide. This was especially important in deciding the direction and layout options for this stripe print, created by the team.
Here are samples of options we provided for this stripe pattern on different garments.
We carefully organized our looks by fabrication and color matched with our printer in the office to provide the best possible color ups.
One of my favorite parts during my time at Phillip’s offices, was researching my specialty: art and prints. Here I organized various Asian ink print artists and the work of Clyfford Still, for our prints this season.
The final print for our Pre-Fall 2022 season.
