Employment
04/08/2013 - 04/21/2013Miss Selfridge
Location:
London
Carmen Lever
I am a screen-print specialist / with a range of transferable skills. I aim to produce high quality luxurious fabric samples and fashion designs. I have exceptional hand drawing and painting skills which I use as the fundamental starting point to my textile designs. I strive to work within the fashion industry & I want to be able to contribute my print design skills to a fashion design house and work within the team together to create a successful fashion collection.
Carmen Lever's Expertise
A recent graduate from Winchester School of Art, passionate about designing and creating printed and embellished fabrics for fashion. An Ambitious and hardworking screen-print specialist, with exceptional hand drawing and painting skills, and a sensitive use of colour. Achievements include work selected for British Fashion Council Graduate Preview Day, Graduate Fashion Week, New Designers and put forward for interview stage of Texprint 2014.
Employment
02/17/2014 - 02/17/2014Antonio Berardi
Location:
London Fashion Week
Employment
02/17/2014 - 02/17/2014Ashish
Location:
London Fashion Week
Employment
02/15/2014 - 02/15/2014GRACE MXIII
Location:
London Fashion Week
Show styled by Katie Grand
Employment
02/16/2014 - 02/16/2014Marios Schwab
Location:
London Fashion Week
Employment
03/18/2013 - 03/24/2013Mirjam Rouden Studio
Location:
London
Employment
11/05/2012 - 11/18/2012Miss Selfridge
Location:
London
Employment
11/14/2009SenSpa
Location:
Brockenhurst, New Forest
Part-Time Receptionist at 5 Star Spa Hotel
Having a part-time job throughout college, foundation and my BA Hons degree has helped me to gain key skills including time management, high level of customer service, team work and holding responisbilities.
Education / Qualifications
09/05/2011 - 07/17/2014Winchester School of Art
Qualification:
BA (Hons) Degree: Fashion & Textile Design (Printed Textile Design)
Location:
Winchester, UK.
Skills and experiences learnt from my time at Winchester School of Art include:
Flatbed Hand Screen-Printing (full process). Repeat print design. Fabric dyeing. Freehand Machine Embroidery. Hand embroidery. Hand Embellishment. Digital Fabric Printing (Mimaki). Laser cutting & etching design. Digital Machine Embroidery (Brother). Digital Jacquard Weave design (Apso). Fine detailed hand paintng and drawing skills.
Education / Qualifications
09/06/2010 - 06/13/2011Arts University College Bournemouth
Qualification:
Foundation Diploma in Art & Design
Location:
Bournemouth, UK.
Skill
Screen-Print specialist
Trained in full flatbed hand screen-printing process. Able to stretch, reclaim, coat and expose screens. Confident in printing and dyeing many different fabric types. Trained and competent with mixing and creating different coloured dyes and dye pastes. Trained in steaming and processing printed fabrics.
Showcase
New Designers 2014
Role:
Exhibitor
Location:
London, UK.
I was selected by my university to show a selection of my work at New Designers 2014 exhibition in London. I thouroughly enjoyed talking to various people that I met over the week. I met interesting industry creatives and professionals, as well as other students displaying their work and also prospective students and the general public showing interest. It was great to 'network', meet up with friends from my previous college courses and meet new people.
Showcase
Graduate Fashion Week 2014
Role:
Exhibitor
Location:
London, UK.
I was also selected by my university to show my A3 fashion portfolio at Graduate Fashion Week 2014 at The Old Truman Brewery, London. My protfolio presented in A3 leather bound format shows a selection of my printed textile designs, both scanned and real samples, fashion illustrations, sketchbook work and overall mood of each project that I have created. My A2 portfolio of fabric samples sits comfortably beside and shows the samples that go along with my illustrated fashion collections that are presented in my A3 portfolio.
Noise Achievement
09/09/2014 - 09/09/2014Selected as a Curator's Choice Artist by Fashion Designer Giles Deacon
I was so excited to find out that my work had been selected by Fashion Designer Giles Deacon and I was part of the Noise Festival 2014 as a Curator's Choice Artist. As part of the event I was invited to The House of Commons to celebrate the start of the whole event. I am one of 5 designers chosen by Giles himself, and it was really nice to meet the other designers at the event. We were also introduced to one of the team members from the GILES studio, who also told us that we were invited to come and work on placement within the team at Giles Deacon's Studio. It was really exciting to hear that this was part of our prize as being selected and to more information about how we will be involved within the team.
Employment
09/14/2014 - 09/14/2014Marios Schwab
Location:
London Fashion Week
Working backstage dressing models and helping to produce the SS15 catwalk show.
Employment
09/15/2014 - 09/15/2014Antonio Berardi
Location:
London Fashion Week
Working backstage dressing models and helping to produce the SS15 catwalk show.
Employment
11/17/2014 - 02/23/2015GILES
Location:
London
Full time studio internship creating intricate hand embellished and embroidered samples, working on bespoke couture private orders, contributing to the design and production of the Autumn/Winter 2015 main collection and helping the design team with the general running of the studio.