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CONTEXT
Freelance engagement
CATEGORY
Commerce
PERIOD
2023—ongoing
ROLE
Freelance Wholesale & Showroom
LOCATION
Paris / International
Collection rack during a showroom appointment.
SUMMARY

Wholesale and showroom work delivered through Tomorrow Ltd., centred on the encounter between collection and buyer.

Context

A showroom appointment is a designed experience compressed into twenty minutes and a rack.

A buyer arrives with a budget, a shop full of existing product and a fixed idea of what their customer will accept. The collection has to be legible in that window — not explained, legible. Which look they touch first, which piece they walk past, where they stop talking: all of it is information, and most of the work is being present enough to catch it.

The work is delivered through Tomorrow Ltd. across international markets and runs on the rhythm of the selling period.

Scope of work

Responsibilities

Day-to-day work across the selling period: preparing the collection for appointments, presenting product to buyers, keeping order and sample information accurate under pressure, and reporting commercial feedback back into the showroom team.

The accuracy matters more than it sounds. An order sheet is the only version of the season that survives — everything else is memory.

What it teaches

Wholesale is the most direct feedback loop in fashion. A campaign might take six months to read. A buyer tells you in an afternoon.

That loop is the reason this work sits alongside the product and digital projects rather than apart from them. Knowing how a collection is actually bought changes how you design one, photograph one, or build a site to sell one.

Credits

Showroom index

COLLECTION PRESENTATION

Preparing and presenting the collection during market appointments.

BUYER APPOINTMENTS

Buyer appointments and account support across international accounts, delivered through Tomorrow Ltd.

SHOWROOM OPERATIONS

Order, sample and showroom operations: keeping product, order and sample information accurate through the selling period.

COMMERCIAL FEEDBACK

Commercial and market feedback shared with the showroom team.