Freelance Senior Women's Wear Denim Designer

About Tommy Hilfiger:

Tommy Hilfiger, which was acquired by PVH Corp. in 2010, is a global apparel and retail company with more than 16,000 associates worldwide. With the support of strong global consumer recognition, Tommy Hilfiger has built an extensive distribution network in over 90 countries and more than 1,400 retail stores throughout North America, Europe, Latin America and the Asia Pacific region. Global retail sales of the Tommy Hilfiger brand were $9.2 billion in 2019.

Founded in 1985, Tommy Hilfiger delivers premium styling, quality and value to consumers worldwide with a brand portfolio that includes TOMMY HILFIGER and TOMMY JEANS.

Tommy Hilfiger is one of the world’s most recognized premium designer lifestyle groups and is recognized for celebrating the essence of ‘classic American cool’ style, featuring preppy with a twist designs.

Its focus is designing and marketing high-quality men’s tailored clothing and sportswear, women’s collection apparel and sportswear, kidswear, denim collections, underwear (including robes, sleepwear and loungewear), footwear and accessories. Through select licensees, Tommy Hilfiger offers complementary lifestyle products such as eyewear, watches, fragrance, swimwear, socks, small leather goods, home goods and luggage.

Position Description and responsibilities:

As a Womenswear Senior Denim Designer you’ll be working in the Womenswear Division seasonal collections in the denim team. You will work closely with the Denim Design manager and the Womenswear Denim team (product developers, fit technician and merchandisers). You’ll be lead by the Denim Design Manager. Next to this you’ll be working close with all designers and head of design within the WSW team to align the denim collection to the Hilfiger inspiration and details. You will be part of an enthusiastic team and will learn to work from A to Z on a collection.

Among other you will be working together with the team to do:

• Researching trends that works into the Tommy Hilfiger Womenswear brand strategy

• Look into trends for the Womenswear denim and create with inspirational moodboards

• Working into elevating our circularity design

• Working under pressure within the Divisional Calendar to meet deadlines

• Illustrate and Photoshop design sheets and wash overviews for divisional presentations

• Preparing styles to be computerized and design sheets to be completed to a high standard for sending to buying offices globally

• Participate to garment fittings and washes reviews

• Presenting seasonal collections to high management for reviews

• Managing and guiding junior denim designer who is supporting you in your tasks

• Create brand identity through seasonal trims and branding development

• Working on BOM’s with the product developers

Requirements:

• Graduated from an BA or MA fashion program, preferably denim interest

• Love for denim, knowledge of denim fabrics, its colors, its texture, and its washes applied on it

• Organized, enthusiastic, easy to adapt and flexible with changes

• Illustrator/Photoshop must be mastered & hand illustration skills too

• Fluent in English both written and verbal as English is the working language of the company

• Able to work in a hectic environment and a hands on mentality

• Great presentation skills

• Work independently as well as in a team and that you also enjoy working in a busy environment

• Ability to work on-site for the majority of time (pref. min. 4 days a week)

Please include an up to date portfolio with your application. We would love to see your aesthetic as well how you commercially design to understand why this is THE role for you!

PVH Europe and our brands, TOMMY HILFIGER and CALVIN KLEIN, are committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse community of associates with a strong sense of belonging. We believe we are bettered by all forms of diversity, and take pride in working with top talent from every walk of life and corner of the world. In the spirit of inclusivity, qualified applicants will be considered without regard to age, ethnicity, ability, gender, gender expression, gender identity, nationality, race, religion or sexual orientation.