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Monica Vargas
Rua Correia de Lemos, 780
Sao Paulo, Brazil 04140-000
celular:(11)98557-4344
WWW.VARGASM.WEEBLY.COM

Fashion and costume designer experienced in designing, sketching, setting specifications, pattern drafting, stitching by hand and on a machines and quick changes.

Freelance design projects
Sao Paulo, Brazil-Blue Ocean English Consultants- 2013
Re-imagined the promotional work uniform t-shirts and polos with graphic embroidered logos promoting the brand of English and intercultural pride they wished to display

New York, New York- Designed, styled, and constructed a sizzling red sequin salsa ensemble for the award winning film “Sex, Love, and Salsa” 2/11

New York, New York-Aided in designing, sketching, specing, and creating tech packs and for women’s wear and denim bottoms for the following Jones Apparel Group brands:
Jessica Simpson, Nine West, VAC, and Bandolino Blu 1/10–1/11

Cincinnati, Ohio-Participated in the “3165 Holiday Affair”, featuring my accessory designs 11/09

New York, New York-Cadded and colored flat sketches in Illustrator, speced accessories, and prepared tech packs for Guess, Michael Kors licensors, Macy’s, and Aeropostale 12/06–5/07

New York, New York-Prepped showroom and created concept boards at Liz Claiborne, costumed actors in Lucca, Italy for the summer opera in Lucca, and created custom garments 6/03–1/05

Full time design experiences
Rubies Costume Company - Designer Queens, New York 6/07–5/09
-Collaborated with licensors, and corporations through my product manager to design and create Halloween costumes such as Nintendo’s “Mario and Luigi” which still has record sales today
-Drafted patterns, and instructed the in house factory in prototype construction in Spanish
-Hand sketched designs and selected fabric and color in consideration for production, and licensing needs
-Worked with costing in determining distinguished price points

Tommy Hilfiger - Assistant Designer
New York, New York 2/05–11/06
-Designed menswear, specializing in accessories and graphic cut and sew t-shirts on an award winning design team for the retail outlet department, responsible for keeping the company financially afloat at that time
-Flat-sketched designs in Illustrator and Photoshop
-Worked in ISIS to input technical and color information into tech packs
-Communicated with production to review strike offs and lab dip approvals
-Attended meetings with factories, vendors, merchants, and color & trend services
-Secured precise trim manufacturing with overseas factory communication

Education

School of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning at University of Cincinnati
Cincinnati, Ohio, Bachelor of Science in Fashion Design
2003-New York and fashion paid internships-Betsey Johnson, Gap, Aeropostale, Hollister
-Costume paid internships CCM, and Mount Washington Valley Theater Company
-Awarded the General Motors Fischer Design Scholarship for design excellence 2003

Parsons School of Continuing Educaition- 1999- concentrated course in menswear history

Skills
-Expertise in Photoshop, and Illustrator design programs on a Mac and PC platform
-Experience with pattern drafting and grading
-Skilled with hand stitching, and machine stitching on a serge and standard machine
-Supervisory and management skills in a retail and design studio environment
-Multiingual( fluent in English, Portuguese, Spanish) with beginner level Italian