Nicole Tailby

Designed product for the Next Womenswear buying team across Heavyweight Jersey, Multibuy and Sportswear categories, supplying samples, designs and fabrics for S/S and A/W ranges. Worked with buying and design teams, planned workload to align with critical path, created tech packs, and developed samples with factories for monthly range selection sign-offs. Collaborated with sourcing offices in Hong Kong, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, New Delhi and Turkey; sourced fabrics and trims and reacted to catwalk and social media trends.

Managed menswear and womenswear product development for critical path delivery, including design, tech packs/artworks, sampling, sourcing fabrics and trims, and coordinating overseas factory development with multiple sourcing offices.

Supported product development across men’s, women’s and childrenswear, including managing small capsule ranges of 50+ pieces. Processed lab dips from factories and ensured trims and zips matched to fabrics. Created mood boards plus shop, trend and colour research each season, and produced trims pages for factories. Managed colour palettes and pantones, and designed and developed label, trims and branding for ranges. Conducted print and placement graphic research and design. Attended trade shows to source fabrics and trims.