Natacha Duarte
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WORK EXPERIENCE
FREELANCE DESIGNER (April 2011 until now)
Woman accessories designer
Client: DS Everstar an important Chinese supplier for high street brands such as ZARA, Mango, River Island, Oasis, Sysley
and others. For this client I develop bags, belts and all the prints and graphics adjacent to them. I research new material,
do inspirational travels and attend to fashion fairs, I also create mood boards for each season.
Print and pattern designer
Different commissioned patterns for Rebook, CeliaB , Ananda Pascual and my own accessories collection. I develop mood
boards for each season and travel for inspiration and fashion fairs. All printings go from hand painting and drawing to
digital techniques in Illustrator and Photoshop.
ZARA, INDITEX GROUP (July 2007/April 2011)
Womans Accessories Department
Accessories and Print/Pattern Fashion Designer
My functions wore to design mainly for the young line TRF and also for Woman and Basic.
As an Accessories and Print/Pattern Designer, I design all the accessories and the graphics adjacent to them, prints,
embroideries , patchworks, jacquards. I designed bags, wallets, belts, hats, scarves, gloves, glasses, jewellery, hair bands
and beauty cases. Ive travelled for shopping and trend hunting, and also developed collections with our suppliers in China,
Hong Kong and India. I was also responsible for designing a young style jewellery collection for the new jewellery line recently
introduced in the stores.
La Coruña, Spain, July 2007-April 2011.
www.zara.com
www.inditex.com
BLANCO (2005/2007)
Graphic Design Department
Textile Print/Pattern Designer and Graphic Designer (branding)
My functions wore to design prints, patterns and embroideries (embellishments), branding design such as hang-tags,
labels and packaging.
Madrid, Spain, 2005/7
www.suiteblanco.com
LA CASITA DE WENDY (2003/2004)
Training
Fashion Design assistant
My functions wore designing, pattern making, sewing and stylist assistant for photo shoots and catwalks;
Madrid ,Spain ,2003/2004.
www.lacasitadewendy.com