AMIRI has an exciting new opportunity for an experienced Denim Designer to join our team in our Milan offices!
What you'll deliver:
- Reporting directly to the Menswear Design Director with daily tasks and seasonal projects with a specific focus on denim and outerwear for all categories
- Research for seasonal design concepts
- Collect Trend/Vintage research based on seasonal inspiration
- Create and maintain seasonal boards and digital versions and keep boards updated after meetings and fittings
- Assist in design and set up of mock-ups and trials
- Set up of Tech Packs and hand off to tech design team
- Assist with sketch annotations for SMS (coordinating with Technical Designer to ensure all information is in-line with SMS Tech Packs)
- Edit sketches in Adobe Illustrator and photoshop
- Setting up and editing line sheets in Adobe Illustrator
- Attending fittings when necessary (proto /SMS stage – assist in collating design information for Tech Packs)
- Manage and organize trims/labels/combo fabrics etc. for protos and SMS
- Coordinate with sample room for any alterations for Show/Market
- Partner cross-functionally to ensure deadlines are met
- Other duties, projects and tasks as assigned by management
What you'll offer:
- Excellent hand sketching and rendering skills preferably in digital programs such as Procreate
- Experience with luxury fashion preferred
- 5 years-experience in denim and outerwear
- High taste level and organizational skills required
- Deep working knowledge of materials and trim
- Ability to create and manage tech packs across multiple product categories
- Excellent communication skills
- Must be extremely organized and have ability to multi-task
- Familiarity with luxury market and trends
- Ability to work well in a team setting as well as independently
Top Skills
What We Do
Established in 2014 by Mike Amiri, the luxury menswear and womenswear brand, AMIRI, marries refined craftsmanship with the glamor of LA’s authentic skate and street culture.
An LA native, founder Mike Amiri began his career in fashion by handcrafting unique stage pieces for iconic hard rockers such as Axl Rose and Steven Tyler. Eternally intrigued by such dark, heroic figures, his flair for tapping into this rock ‘n’ rock ethos led him to design an exclusive capsule collection for the LA-concept store, Maxfield.
Since this debut collection, Mike established a distinct design signature with his deconstructed, hand-embellished denim jeans, leather jackets, grungy flannel shirting and graphic tee-shirts — all grounded in the nostalgic touchstones of his Californian youth. Early styles, like the MX1 jeans and Bandana Buckle boots, remain the pillars of AMIRI today, and the designer’s nascent DIY sensibility has since evolved into a studied and distinct savoir-faire.
Today, AMIRI presents a collection bi-annually at Paris Fashion Week and is available from some of the most renowned retailers worldwide, such as Barneys, Bergdorf Goodman in New York, Galeries Lafayette in Paris, Selfridges in London and Joyce in Hong Kong. As its global presence grows, AMIRI remains faithful to its roots: each garment is still a labor of love, cut from the finest fabrics, produced in majority in LA, and often even hand-finessed in-house. More recently, production of leathergoods and tailored suiting moved to Italy.
Since 2018, Mike Amiri has been a member of the CFDA. In 2018, he was also nominated for the Swarovski Award for Emerging Talent at the CFDA Fashion Awards and honored with the Emerging Talent Award at the Footwear News Achievement Awards. In 2019, Mike was nominated for the Menswear Designer of the Year at the CFDA Fashion Awards.
