OTIS Annual Fashion Show May 7th

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OTIS College of Art & Design
29th Annual Scholarship Benefit
& Fashion Show

Cocktails, Silent Auction, Dinner and Runway Show

DATE: Saturday, May 7th, 2011
TIME: 6:30 p.m.
LOCATION: The Beverly Hilton Hotel

Design Legend Award presented to BOB MACKIE.
Mr. Art Coppola, Chairman and CEO of the Macerich Company will accept the Creative Vision Award for SANTA MONICA PLACE.

Student mentors for the Runway show include:
Rod Beattie, Bob Mackie, Cynthia Rowley, Diesel, Forever 21, Juicy Couture,
Max Azria, Old Navy, Sean John and Hurley/Nike.

For early reservations and information contact Heather Schraeder at:
310.665.6858 or hscraeder@otis.edu.

Billabong Product Development Position Opening

Billabong is currently seeking:

Junior’s Sportswear Product Developer

Job Description:

Duties to include, but not limited to the following:
- Responsible for developing the Junior’s Sportswear line from concept to finished product working closely with designer and management.
- Create and maintain line plans for Junior’s Sportswear line.
- Create and maintain matrices for all styles.
- Communicate with vendors here and overseas to ensure protos and salesman samples are received correctly and on time.
- Review all protos, salesman samples, and pre-production samples and send comments / updated matrices to vendors.
- Negotiate costs with vendors and create cost sheets to ensure margin requirements are met and product is priced competitively at marketplace.
- Handover cost sheets and production matrices to production department.
- Create Junior’s Sportswear portion of the catalog.

Key Requirements:
- Must be deadline driven.
- Must be able to multi task and work in a fast-paced environment.
- Must be pro-active with a solution / result oriented attitude.
- Must have excellent follow though skills.
- Must be detail oriented.
- Must be MAC computer literate in Applications – Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Word, Excel, Outlook.
- Candidate should have at least 2 years experience is merchandising.

If you have any leads please have them forward their resume to:
jobs@billabong-usa.com

If you have questions regarding the position you may contact
Kristen Arbour at ext. 3349

Upcoming Fashion Color Forecast Webinar

Pantone's Spring/Summer 2012 Color Forecasts

X-Rite & Lectra are pleased to invite you to attend the exclusive presentation of Pantone's 2012 Spring/Summer color and trend forecast. Be among the first to receive Pantone's color, texture, & silhouette predictions for fashion to help you prepare new collections for Spring/Summer of 2012.

This webinar will last approximately 50 minutes.

• 10:00 AM EST REGISTER

• 12:00 noon EST REGISTER

Laurie Pressman, Pantone's Vice President for fashion, Home and Interiors & Laura Mylius-Prou, Lectra's Design Solution Expert will present.