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Head Designer & Product Developer

Fashion industry leader and entrepreneur with 15 years experience in design, product development, brand development, and production management.  Executed 500% growth within a single apparel company by extending customer reach 8 countries through designs catered to the region's target market.  Extensive experience in trend research, fashion sketching, specialty and performance fabric, trim sourcing, garment construction, customer focused design, and navigation of fashion industry challenges.

Portfolio: https://rachelnevarez.myportfolio.com/

Americana vintage-inspired men's and women's apparel designed and manufactured in the USA.

-Responsible for design, development, and sampling of 15-20 women’s and men’s collections per calendar year.
-Source fabrics and trims that fall in line with the season’s trends while targeting the unique customer.
-Interview, hire, and execute fittings on standard and plus size range models.
-Produce up to 15 lifestyle and product photography shoots per year.
-Oversee pattern making, revisions, and delivering final patterns to production.
-Assign style numbers, build materials, labor, and fabrics for up to 200 SKUs per year.
-Work closely with buyers from Modcloth, Bowling Concepts, and Top Vintage to design and develop apparel specific to their target customer.
-Coordinate with licencors Graceland/Elvis Presley, Rat Fink, Bettie Page, and Sun Records to design and develop licensed and private label apparel.

Industry Consultant, Design, and Production Management for children's and women's apparel.

-Provide apparel industry consulting services including design, development, branding, e-commerce, and production management.

Industry Consultant & Production Manager

A handmade modern smock girls clothing company sold online and in person at local pop up shops and markets.

-Built all brand assets including target customer research, logo, colors, fonts, and aesthetics.
-Executed all design, product development, fittings, and sampling of 4 annual collections of 10 SKUs each.
-Organized and served customer base through small pop-up shops and markets all over Los Angeles and Orange County.
-Designed and created pop up booth adjustable in size from 4x6 to 10x10 and housing up to 250 pieces of inventory at once.
-Increased sales by 200% within one year by catering designs and display to customers needs.
-Managed Instagram account generating 1000 followers in 6 month time frame with average of 13% engagement. 
-Generated weekly and monthly e-mail campaigns averaging 20% opens and 6% clicks.

President & CEO

An international women’s performance apparel and uniform company catering to the athletic, curvy, roller derby market.

-Grew a domestic and international customer base from 1 to over 500 accounts in 8 countries within 2 years.
-Increased sales 500% from $80,000 to $400,000 within one year through custom designs.
-Designed and created mobile event booth and traveled to 3-5 domestic and international events a year.
-Develop and maintain all details of e-commerce store including product photos, descriptions, and inventory up to 40 SKUs.
-Recruited, hired, and supervised as many as 7 employees simultaneously.
-Successfully developed and managed 3 full package private label programs for the market.
-Built all brand assets including target customer research, logo, colors, fonts, and aesthetics.

Hot Rod, Motorcycle, Punk Rock, Rockabilly, and Tattoo Inspired Vintage Americana clothing and accessories.

-Expanded overseas production to six vendors and domestic production to five vendors in one year.
-Increased margins by 12% while maintaining wholesale buyers price points.
-Managed sampling, development, pre-production, and production of four lines as well as private label for companies like Hustler and Hot Topic.
-Daily overseas and domestic production management, scheduling, and communication.
-Built and issued comprehensive technical packages to overseas and domestic vendors.
-Inventory forecasting and management.

Production Manager

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Rachel Nevarez: Head Designer & Product Developer in Chino, CA

Rachel Nevarez

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The Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising

University of Pittsburgh