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Simona Grossi

Knitwear designer
About

KNITWEAR AND JERSEY DESIGNER, FREE-LANCE CONSULTANT Men's and women's knitwear and jersey designer consultant for project and product management in the field of luxury ready-to-wear and for the medium/high segment. Thanks to wide-ranging technical skills developed through years of constant relations with the most important knitting factories and labs, and thanks to her own creativity, sensitive to the shift of seasonal trends, she's able to take ideas and turn them into pieces and patterns, experimenting with knitting machines, yarns and blends in a costant technological update. This combination of technical and inventive ability is a perfect way to channel the creative director's mood and brand identity into a product, coherent on price and placement As a result of her strong passion for the history of fashion and costume she built an extensive personal archive to draw on for research and reference,

Previous Brands
Agnona
Bottega Veneta
CoSTUME NATIONAL
Dondup
EMILIO PUCCE
Ieggre
IONNET
Justeaval
LS
MUGLER
PINKO
Tommy Hilfiger
TOS
TWINSET
Work Experience
HEAD KNITWEAR DESIGNER
Jan ‘20 - Jan ‘22
TWINSET

Inspiration research, vintage, collection design, technical research and studies of processing and yarns made especially for the brand, integration of collection with dedicated capsules.

HEAD KNITWEAR DESIGNER
Jan ‘18 - Jan ‘20
MUGLER

Brand of the 'Oreal Paris group with creative direction by Casey Cadwallander, collection design, research and choice of suitable laboratories.

SENIOR WOMEN'S KNITWEAR AND JERSEY DESIGNER
Jan ‘17 - Jan ‘19
TOS

Design of main collections, pre-collections, fashion shows.

SENIOR MEN'S AND WOMEN'S KNITWEAR AND JERSEY DESIGNER
Jan ‘16 - Jan ‘18
Dondup

HEAD WOMEN'S KNITWEAR DESIGNER
Jan ‘16 - Jan ‘17
Agnona

ZEGNA Gr. brand collaboration with the Milan Studio and the manufacturing headquarters in Novara in other to draw up a style strategy for the new AGNONA silhouette; design of a total look in cashmere featuring special volumes and stitches.

HEAD KNITWEAR DESIGNER FOR
Jan ‘13 - Jan ‘20
Tommy Hilfiger

Product design and coordination together with the Amsterdam Studio; development of style identity, price analysis. Coordination of business relations between brand and suppliers. Collaboration with KARL TEMPLER for the New York fashion shows and on special projects, among them the GIGI HADID Capsule.

Y HEAD WOMEN'S KNITWEAR DESIGNER
Jan ‘11 - Jan ‘16
EMILIO PUCCE

LVMH brand. Collaboration with the creative directions of Peter Dundas first and then Massimo Giorgietti for main and pre-collections and fashion shows, leading to a massive sell-through revenue uplift through the seasons.

HEAD KNITWEAR DESIGNER / JERSEY /
Jan ‘09 - Jan ‘14
IONNET

Collaboration to the VIONNET rebranding by Matteo Marzotto and Gianni Castiglioni with the creative direction of Rodolfo Paglialunga. Style identity for the knitwear and jersey segments designed around the jersey moulage sur mannequins concept, then developed in made-to-measure and celebrities' projects, Bijoux project that incorporates the vintage taste of 30's jewels making them design and contemporary.

SENIOR KNITWEAR AND JERSEY DESIGNER
Jan ‘09 - Jan ‘10
Ieggre

Gilmar Lab and ICEBERG Archivio collections. Rebranding, upgrade aof the style codes in the direction of 2 pop, cross-cutting style; research and study of the Gilmar archives

SENIOR KNITWEAR AND JERSEY DESIGNER
Jan ‘08 - Jan ‘09
PINKO

Design and collaboration on four main collections for year, on monthly capsules and weekly mini-capsules for a costant retail flow.

D.EXTERIOR SENIOR WOMEN'S KNITWEAR AND JERSEY DESIGNER
Jan ‘02 - Jan ‘07
LS

Style and product coordinator, definition of a luxury knitwear total look for the international market.

SENIOR KNITWEAR AND JERSEY DESIGNER
Jan ‘97 - Jan ‘07
CoSTUME NATIONAL

Research in style and design alongside Ennio Capasa for fashions shows, made-to-measure project, and the establishment of commercial relations with international knitting labs.

CONSULTANT SENIOR DESIGNER
Jan ‘05
Justeaval

Design of underwear and beachwear mini-collections

CONSULTANT SENIOR DESIGNER
Jan ‘00
Bottega Veneta

Rebranding consultant under Giles Deacon's creative direction

Languages
Italian - Native
English - Basic
Education & Training
Istituto Marangoni
Fashion Designer
University of Urbino "Carlo Bo"
Degree in Sociology of mass communication.
Shima Seiki Italia
Shima machines programming
26100 Cremona, Province of Cremona, Italy