**Assistant Fashion Designer**

SWEET RAIN APPAREL, INC. Los Angeles, CA, USA Posted 5 days ago Full time Established in Spring of 2000, Sweet Rain entered the fashion market offering stylish, contemporary, and high quality clothing to customers globally. At Sweet Rain Apparel, we offer styles that allows for creative exploration of various moods and identities. Through materiality and textiles, our seasonal collections of garments play with silhouettes, colours, patterns, and texture. Buyers are able to discover on- trend looks for women to express their personal style at any time of the day, year and occasions. Feeling a casual or dressy, Sweet Rain has it prepared. Being a wholesale clothing company, it gives us the freedom to create varying aesthetics throughout our collections due to the audience each collection is targeted for. Due to this, we have a variety of style such as cute to romantic looks, street wear to retro themes, and of course, the daring cuts for women.

We are always looking for talented, dynamic individuals to join our team and have the opportunity to gain experience in a supportive atmosphere.

Sweet Rain Apparel is looking for Women's Apparel Assistant Designer

The Assistant Designer will focus on young, contemporary womenswear.

The Assistant designer will assist the design team with all aspects of the garment lifecycle from concept to final development & fitting. This position would support the design team by researching relevant trends, maintaining the organization of the design office, and has the ability to communicate with cross functional teams such as Merchandising and Production. Assistant designer will develop and create illustrations and technical drawings/flats for new design concepts.

Assistant designer will also participate in fashion trade shows by creating seasonal collections & looks, while also attending to these locations.

Duties:

* Provide support from concept to design to final development

* Assist with the management of cross-functional communication between buyers, productions, technical design and with vendors.

* Provide organization by handling new garment samples through communications with all teams

* Research concepts, create sketches, prototypes and artwork throughout the concept development phase.

* Assist design team with all aspect of the design process

Skills/Qualification

* Studying or studied, in Fashion, Design with a Bachelors Degree, or related area

* Understanding customer preferences on fashion and style trends

* Strong sketching skills, color sense, and fabric knowledge

* Strong written and verbal communication with presentation skills

* Detail oriented

* Familiar with Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, Indesign, Microsoft Word & Excel