Product development · Technical design
From first sketch
to final fit.
Translating a designer’s sketch into a garment a factory can make, measure and ship, across knitwear, denim and wovens.
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- Case studies
- 36
- Points of measure, one jean
- 05
- Fit rounds, proto to ship
- 25+
- Pantone refs, one cardigan
About
I am a product development specialist with extensive expertise in costings and technical design. I possess the technical ability to translate a designer's sketch into a garment that a factory can efficiently produce and ship. My experience covers wovens, full fashion knits, leather, swimwear, denim, and cut-and-sew knits for a wide range of clients, from contemporary runway labels to mass-market programs.
I take full responsibility for the technical lifecycle of a product, including:
- 01Writing comprehensive specs and grading sizes.
- 02Managing all fit rounds.
- 03Ensuring every quarter-inch is held to strict tolerance.
Selected work
Garments, documented the way they were actually made.
Not lookbook shots, but the working documents: annotated sketches, graded specs, fit audits and bills of materials, made browsable instead of buried in PDFs.
01
SIMKHAI · Pre-Fall 2026
Levie S/L Mini Dress
An accordion-compact knit engineered through five fit rounds: 3D fins, ottoman transfer stitches and a sunburst skirt taken from illustration to approved TOP.
Knitwear · Dress426-1100-K
02
SIMKHAI · Men's Pre-Fall 2026
Walt Dad Jean
A men's dad jean in rigid organic and recycled indigo, graded across ten waist sizes and pushed through five rounds of wash-aware pattern correction to bulk approval.
Denim · Men's426-4178-MEN
03
SIMKHAI · Holiday 2026
Calene Blazer Gown
A floor-length tailored blazer gown in crepe with satin lapels: princess pleats, double welt pockets and a 34-point graded spec, corrected through proto, fit and PPS to TOP approval.
Wovens · Tailoring626-1138-CS
04
NO! Jeans · Fall/Winter 2021
Venus Cardigan
A space-exploration cardigan carrying 40+ Pantone-matched yarns, patchworks, badges and embroideries, specified panel by panel so a factory could actually build it.
Knitwear · Statement pieceNJ-22F02
05
Seven · for Sam's Club · Fall 2020
NewStraight 4-Way Stretch Jean
A mass-market men's jean delivered as a costing tech pack and audited against a 36-point measurement spec. The PP fit sample passed to top of production on the second round.
Denim · Men'sSN1955H3
06
Coldesina · Summer 2021
Lena Pant
A tulip-front palazzo pant graded XS–XL and approved for production, with 20 points of measure engineered around a curved overlap that has no straight lines to measure from.
Knit bottoms · MissyCD21002A
Process
A garment isn’t designed once. It’s designed five times.
Every case study on this site moves through the same gauntlet. The craft of technical design is holding the original intent steady while the garment passes through it.
01
Development
Translate the sketch into an engineering brief: stitches, seams, yarns, target specs and reference styles a factory can act on.
02
Proto
First physical sample. Silhouette decisions get made here: what the drawing promised versus what the fabric will actually do.
03
SMS / Fit
Salesman samples and fit rounds on a live model. Every deviation is measured against tolerance and dispositioned in writing.
04
PPS
Pre-production sample in real fabric and wash. The last chance to correct before money is cut in bulk.
05
TOP
Top of production. Audit the first units off the line, bring strays back to spec, approve to ship.
Knitwear engineering
Stitch programs, gauge & yarn specs, graded knit specs for SIMKHAI and NO! Jeans
Denim & wovens
Construction packages, wash standards, 36-point fit audits for Seven and Sam's Club
Fit & grading
Proto → SMS → PPS → TOP; tolerance-driven size chart reviews across XS–XL and 28–44
Production handoff
BOMs, trim & label systems, packaging specs, costing packs factories can execute