Creative Senior Design Consultant with an extensive international experience (UK, France, Italy, Canada, China). Womenswear and Menswear, Concept development, collection planning and management, design direction, product design and development. Excellent knowledge of fabrics and garment construction.
Design Consultancy for the luxury/Pret-a-Porter industry. International experience - Europe, Americas and Asia. Consultancy services for various clients in the fashion industry. Please see below an extract from one of the contracts for a client in China. "1. SERVICES AND DELIVERABLES服务 CLIENT / PROJECT: Koradior elsewhere (2019SS& 2019A/W) 客户/项目名称：Koradior elsewhere珂思 （2019春夏&2019秋冬） Trip to Shenzhen 18~20 days for each season, i.e 36~40 days/year. Party A shall reach decision with Party B through consultation on the date of traveling to China one month in advance.( Key point: First design proposal presentations, second design proposal presentations, and Fitting) 每季来深工作时间18~20天，即36~40天/年。（主要节点为第一次企划指导，第二次企划指导，样衣评审）每次来深时间由甲乙双方提前一个月协商确定。 -Confirmation of design proposal (design proposal include: trend proposal, theme direction and inspiration) 每季企划定稿确认（每季企划包含流行趋势、当季企划主题与灵感来源） -Confirmation of collection plans of all capsules in deliveries (including styles / fabrics/prints/design details ) 各波段所有系列的款式设计方向/面料/花型/设计手法等的确认 -Fittings for key products of all deliveries. 各波段的关键品类样衣评审指导 ROLE IN DETAIL 具体职责 EVALUATE BRAND’S RECOGNITION AND POSITIONING 评估每个品牌的认知和定位 CAPITALISE ON KNOWN VALUES AND BRING NEW ONES TO THE BRAND 利用已知的价值并且向每个品牌带入新的东西 IDENTIFY WHAT MODERNITY MEANS FOR THE BRAND 识别对于每个品牌来说现代性意味着什么"
Director . Design consultancy and pret-a-porter womenswear collection. Collection was distributed in independent boutiques and department stores -Harrods, London; Dover Street Market, London; Isetan, Tokyo; IT Hong Kong.
Responsible for collections : line '1' , Artisanal , '6' Martin Margiela and '10' MM menswear. Managing a design team of 4 full-time and 3 freelance designers. Research, development and presentation of seasonal design concept according to the creative direction. Participate in the development of the collection plan, taking into consideration Creative Director's needs and Sales Director recommendations. Presentation of the collection to international agents before seasonal sales meetings. Close collaboration with Product development (development and sample fittings), production (communication with production company Staff International) , marketing, sales and press departments.
Senior Designer at Arcadia Group Plc (company now dissolved) for TOP SHOP, TOP MAN
I have worked with Katarzyna on many projects during our collaboration at Maison Martin Margiela. I was sincerely impressed by her skills of organisation, comprehension, and mostly her capacity to overcome constrains providing witty outputs. Among other skills, I noticed her everyday-scale competence to run humanly any kind of matter that would arise in the team, to solve them in an intelligent and sensible way. Katarzyna is a most valuable person to be part of a creative team.
I have been assisting Katarzyna during her consultancy work assignments in China between 2014 - 2019. She has been a great person to work with - sensitive, fitting into the asian companies’ culture with ease and making friends and good colleagues along the way. At that time I was working for IBIC company, which represented several foreign Design Consultants in China. Katarzyna has been IBIC’s one of the longest clients, since 2014 till 2020, when pandemic made it impossible for her to travel to China. Katarzyna has consulted for several some of the biggest Chinese fashion companies in Shenzhen, Beijing and Shanghai. The IBIC agency’s clients have enormously appreciated her work as her assistance always helped to improve brand’s direction - product, communication and sales. In every consultancy she has consistently achieved required results on a creative level as well as financial.
j’ai eu l’occasion de travailler avec Katarzyna lors d’un projet pop up chez Harrods à Londres pour la maison Valentino en 2017. Katarzyna nous a notamment aidé à cibler les pièces à mettre en showroom pour la clientèle Harrods et à participer au montage de la présentation. J’ai eu beaucoup de plaisir lors de cette collaboration. Katarzyna étant très compétente, elle aura vraiment contribué au succès de ce projet.