Experiences at Elrene Home Fashions

- Establish market trends and color direction for fashion driven print and woven table linens, window treatments, kitchen and scatter rugs for department and specialty stores
- Research, conceptualize ideas and direct art studios to execute coordinated fashion collections for seasonal, holiday, basics, and outdoor, combining a mix of materials, embellishments, products
- Manage customer special developments and create private label collections
- Organized Photoshop classes for design team members to reduce annual design budget
- Execute spec sheets for all fabric prints, woven and vinyl engravings and finished products - prints and wovens
- Daily overseas vendor communications for product development, revisions, approvals, costing, quality, timing
- Travel overseas for product development, sourcing fabrics, embellishments, new materials with China and Indian print and weaving mills
- Attend international and domestic trade/design shows...