Beatrice Carlson

• Attend to meetings with the new customer and Deane Apparel Sales Manager to understand their need, the reason they want to change uniform,what they want to achieve.
• Team work with the sales person in charge of the project: cross-sharing our briefs and knowledge of the customer. Stay in constant liaison to make sure the design reflects our brief.
• Internet research on the customer brand, industry, environment, type and number of employees, ethnicities concerns.
• Internet research on similar industry companies to differentiate and create their very own and distinctive image.
• Create storyboards with suggested fabric samples, trims, creation of logo pips, and personalized accessories. Eventually, Deane in-House product manager will source similar fabrics with price and quality focus
• Offer new colour options using the customer brand bible (or from internet research)
• Using Photoshop, create the customer new uniform range: present a mock up of the garments on models in their work environment.
• Presentation meeting with the customer: power point, storyboards, samples. I will be assisted with the sales person or Deane CEO, depending on the importance of the project.
• If the presentation occurs during a tender and my designs are successful, we will then reassess the presentation: new meeting with customer, de-brief, updates.
• Updated presentations on storyboards with the customer for final uniform choice.
• Work at Deane with their in-house pattern-making department on the style, proportions, details, final product.
• work with tight deadlines, stick to budgets and "seduce" the customer with an exciting new uniform that will lift the spirit of their employees and show their professionalism.

A contract like Mc Donald has taken 3 years in the design, concepts, fabric choices process.

My designs have been chosen for Australasia Mc D restaurants and later on APMEA (Asia-Pacific, Middle East)

Super yacht apparel company embroidery workshop management.:

• Organise orders and workload for the embroidery team
• Organise individual order sizing, alterations, repairs for each super yacht
• Stock take
• Create design of the new season collections, make the patterns and sizes gradation.
• create accessories and loungewear customized to each yacht.
• Source fabrics and trims from local suppliers and also Paris Premiere Vision
• In charge of first samples
• Source manufacturers
• Work at the front show room customer
• work with seasonal tight deadlines,
• adapt fashion styles to the work environment: the crew has to be casual elegant but still able to work very long hours and keep crisp and nice looking.

• Creator and director of Béatrice Gentier (now Carlson) Lingerie Fine
• In total charge of design, pattern, first sample
• Source and test fabrics, trims, haberdashery
• Source and work with manufacturers, cutters, seamstresses
• Quality control
• Orders, stock and costs management
• Make prices
• Present twice a year Lingerie collection: February SIL ( International Salon of Lingerie) Paris and September Lyon
• Organise the exhibitions, press and editorial portfolios
• Select models, do photoshooting styling and pressbooks

In 1994, we were considered as the "Lingerie avant-garde designers".

We exhibited in l'espace Avant Garde et our designs were coveted or even copied by the big industrial companies.

• Commission work of personalized and one-off hand made luxury bags
• Meet with individual clients to create their "dream bag"
• Source fabric, recycling/upcycling material. embroidery, appliqué. work with silk, precious fabric, leather, snake.
• Photoshop work on their photography to create an art print of their beloved.

The bags where displayed in Az'Art,a designer flower show room, orders where taken from there.

Create collections to French brands:

• Cargo de Nuit: Knit clothing
• create designs, patterns
• work with the in-house machinist for first samples
• in charge of the design team
• Maison Tavernier: Leather clothing
• Create designs an patterns
• Work with the in-house machinist for first samples
• Maison Chacok:
• Design and making of accessories: bags, head gear.
• Olive:
• Design of beach wear collection Cote d'Azur
• Marson Bathing suits, Crema-Italy:
• In charge of the new range of Marson bathing suits
• work in the factory with the machinists for first samples.

• Teacher: colour harmony, volume and fashion design to classes of 10 adults
• Creating professional opportunities to the students
• Giving them an overall experience in the fashion industry

• Teacher of fashion design, working with a pattern maker to create collections
• teaching to adult classes
• mentoring, team work