Experience

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  The big bridal popup

  Jul 2018 - Jan 2020

  Bridal consultant and sales representative

  As a bridal consultant, tasks entailed marketing wedding dresses to prospective customers and providing exclusive assistance in the fitting process of bridal gowns. This is in addition to presenting clients with customizable wedding dress alterations and proposing applicable styles in correspondence with individual bridal preferences.

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  Isabel de villiers clothing

  Sept 2018 - Sept 2018

  Public relations photoshoot assistant

  Assisted in the organisation of the Spring/Summer 2019 lookbook photoshoot through the arrangement of props and assistance regarding the styling of fashion ensembles.

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  Milk and honey

  Jan 2019 - May 2019

  Retail sales consultant

  As a brand ambassador and sales assistant, I was in charge of individually opening and closing the boutique alongside visual merchandising responsibilities and quality control tasks pertaining to the merchandise. This is supplementary to providing customers with styling assistance; stock inspection and manning the point of sale operations and cashing up.

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  Timeless bridal couture

  Feb 2020 - May 2022

  Bridal consultant

  Skills developed include interpersonal skills, public speaking and visual communication through conducting private consultations via presenting customers with both digital and physical renditions of products alongside proposing unique design customizations and alterations tailored to each bride. This role also entailed creating quotations, managing point of sale operations and the reception area alongside administration and filing tasks.

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  Simone couture

  Jun 2020 - Dec 2020

  Fashion designer assistant

  The internship comprised of production-related tasks including sewing ensembles, decorative hand stitching and beading work alongside pre-production tasks such as cutting out patterns along with quality control inspection tasks.

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  Bloss online youth magazine

  Aug 2020 - Mar 2021

  Magazine editor

  Development of dexterities pertaining to researching topics; creating online blog posts; working with SEO tools and utilizing WordPress through employment as an English online travel editor and blog copywriter. Tasks included creating two to three online blog posts per month for the website alongside producing articles for the print magazine that was published online every three months.

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  Polo south africa

  Jun 2022 - Jul 2022

  Kidswear fashion buyer assistant

  Assisted in the buying process of the AW23 and SS23 kids wear collection through strategic organization and management skills. This is alongside visual merchandising experience in the showroom and attendance of range-building sessions in which an observational and contributory presence occurred.

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  Focus art fair

  May 2023 - May 2023

  Public relations volunteer

  Press release tasks including the creation of invitations, speeches, and press packs/information to be presented at the annual art fair exposition hosted by Focus Art Fair in New York City. This was in collaboration with partner brands such as Adler, X8M, Ton Diamonds, and Superchief Gallery NFT in which both digital NFT and physical art were promoted.

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  Mane

  Aug 2023 - Feb 2024

  Fine fragrance commercial and marketing internship

  Creative brainstorming, technical innovation, idea generation, marketing presentations, budgeting and management solutions within the luxury perfume sector as based on creative briefs from brands such as Kenzo, Givenchy and Zadig & Voltaire.