Designer

🌟 Join Karen Millen as a Designer for tailoring🌟
London | Full-time

About Us
Since 1981, Karen Millen has been an iconic name in fashion, known for quality design, premium fabrics, and attention to every detail. Our brand moves fast, sets trends (we don’t follow them), and thrives on creativity and collaboration.

The Role
Our passion is luxury level quality, our mission is to deliver outstanding value for our customer and to make Karen Millen a truly democratic brand.

Our in house design team are obsessed with detail. We interpret trends to serve our customer, harnessing the colour palettes and moods of the international catwalks. Due to our continuing growth, we are now looking for an experienced Softs designer to join our passionate, agile and creative team.

What you will be doing

• Ensure the development of the collection and trends each season for your department.
• Source and develop fabrics for each month to suit your product range.
• Forecasting trends to bring newness and fashionability into the ranges with original, detailed designs.
• Producing in season catwalk analysis for your department to underpin your range direction.
• Proposing balanced ranges covering customer attitudes, creating total looks and considering her end uses and lifestyle.
• Confidently leading the fit and seal process in our fit sessions, with tech.
• Innovating on bestsellers to ensure the commercial baseline of the range is protected.
• Demonstrating your awareness of what is new in fashion on the street, in the competition and in the designer collections. Driving this into the product ranges.
• Alongside the Head of Design and design team, contributing to seasonal research, developing on-brand macro trends at season launch.
• Managing the critical path to hit design deadlines, plan travel calendar and safeguard product through development to booking stage.
• Working closely with buying and senior team to range build and cultivate supplier relationships.
• Onboarding new suppliers to deliver exceptional quality and value for the customer.
• Working with the Head of Design to plan for seasonal shoot campaigns.

What We’re Looking For:

• Demonstrated background in womenswear woven design, with a focus or passion for tailoring
• A degree in Fashion Design or a related discipline.
• Hand drawing, Photoshop and illustrator experience are required.
• In-depth knowledge of textiles, garment construction, and fit, with a strong technical foundation.
• You embrace a high level of professional accountability and are in the detail of the product journey.
• A motivating and inspiring personality who will nurture and develop your direct reports.
• Always professional, focused and driven to bring cohesion and clarity to the range and team.
• Able to think on your feet and problem solve creatively.
• Agility and adaptability are essential.
• Flexible regarding offshore and local travel
• Creative, organised and passionate about fashion!

Why Work With Us?
At Karen Millen, we empower our people. You’ll have freedom, autonomy, and support to grow within your role. Our culture is built on creativity, collaboration, and pushing boundaries - we work hard and celebrate wins as one team.

• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Discretionary bonus scheme
• Company share scheme
• Life Assurance
• Company Pension Scheme
• Flexible working hours
• Employee assistance programme including 24-hour confidential helpline
• Our Reward Platform allows you to tailor your benefits to suit your needs - such as Private Healthcare, Dental and Healthcare Cash Plans, a Cycle2work Scheme and plenty of fun anytime benefits such as coffee club or virgin experience days.
• Discount across all Debenhams Group brands
• Discount & Cashback portal
• Season Ticket Loans
• Learning and development support and opportunities both internally and externally
• Our social calendar? Next level!

Ready to make your mark? Be bold. Be brave. Be Karen Millen.

👉 Apply now and let your creativity lead the way.

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