Fashion Designer - Hard Rock Cafe

Hard Rock Café Franchisee for Hong Kong, Macau and Ho Chi Minh City has identified an opportunity to improve financial performance of ITs retail business through in house apparel design. In house designer will be responsible to develop new and unique lines to keep the retail outlets competitive within the market and within the Hard Rock Café brand. New designs will for the majority consist of t-shirt designs, but can also extend to the design of accessories such as pins, scarves, bracelets and other ITems. The designers must be able to work with the Café management to develop a calendar for each outlet to identify the development plans throughout the year. The designer must be able to work with an approval process as well as work with production companies to adhere to quality parameters. In addition, the designer has to be able to understand the brand and must design based on customer needs and thus have a clear view on market trends.

You will:

- Reports to Retail buyer
- Develop new and unique Hard Rock Café apparel for individual market needs
- Develop design and production process from idea to store
- Research fashion trends
- Develop designs with an emphasis on t-shirts, and also comfortable designing shirts, sportswear, pins, accessories and other ITems
- Negotiate prices with vendors and production companies and have a good understanding of fabric and accessory prices
- Able to work within global brand guidelines
- Proficient on technical processes in textile manufacturing
- Able to design theme based apparel, including but not exclusively related to music