Internship Design Assistant - Basel

TALLY WEiJL is a brand for young self-confident women and one of the bold players of today’s international fast fashion market. The combination of irresistible trendy styles and a unique brand experience has made the Swiss company, founded in 1984 by Tally Elfassi-Weijl and Beat Grüring, successful since more than 30 years. Today, TALLY WEiJL is present in 880 stores through 37 countries. Furthermore, TALLY WEiJL also excels in the online business and has developed into an innovative omnichannel provider. Our 2.5 million fans on Facebook and Instagram are a testimony of this digital success

1. Design & Research

• Support the Senior Designer on trends research
• Design reports and boards
• Create presentations, source information, support admin tasks
• Assist the Senior Designer to do competition and street trends reports
• Prepare the collection plans

2. Product Development

• Samples preparation for collection and buying meetings, including labels
• Follow-up of samples from the draw till the OK PROD sample
• Collection Plans updating
• Prepare technical files
• Guarantee that the shape (paper pattern is according to the fit needed for TW customer)

3. Fittings and sampling

• Follow up of the samples/developments
• Prepare fitting sessions
• Work on comments with the Senior Designer
• Update technical files and paper patterns based on Senior Designers requests
• Follow up of the comments in order to respect the Deadlines

4. System

• PLM : To create and update Articles in PLM

5. Pictures

• Organize pictures to be updated in WEB SHOP; PLM and other shared files

Education: fashion school graduated

Languages: English (French or German would be a plus).

Computer skills:

• Adobe illustrator (must be comfortable in creating technical flats)
• Adobe photoshop
• In Design (would be a plus)

Personal characteristics:

• Multi-tasking flexibility
• Mental agility
• Energetic
• Positive approach to problems/criticism; solution maker
• Self-motivated
• Action oriented
• passion for fast fashion