associate degree in Advanced Fashion Design

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Enjoys being outside southern california all year long.

Andrea is a visionary Creative Director who has a proven her ability to lead, inspire, direct, and manage global design teams. By working her way up over the last 20 years from a pattern maker to the Global Creative director of a major athletic brand, Andrea has the ability to wholisitically view the go to market process with a strategic lens.  Andrea thrives in highly creative and forward thinking environment.

• Transformed process to be a global business by interacting with global merchandise partners
• Traveled globally to research consumers and trends, and met with regional senior leadership members to strategize future business needs
• Met twice annually with senior leadership to present and determine long term apparel strategy.
• Created channel specific organization to address different requirements of running elite specialty, big box, and NB branded stores
• Set the trend, color, and design direction for all categories and to our licensee partners
• Owned fashion, graphic, and fit direction for all apparel divisions
• Co-organized and lead in the bi-annual global footwear and apparel global color/trend week
• Created and presented color and trend collateral for apparel for both our domestic and international design staff
• Presented concepts and collections at international sales meetings, major accounts, and internal senior leadership.
• Grew apparel team from 3 designers to 11 in a collaborative team environment.
• Conceptualized and created the unique sub yoga brand Anue
• Provided separate seasonal design direction and co-designed the Anue collection

Global Creative Director of Apparel

Note: Dec 07 purchased by New Balance
• Provided creative direction to all private label athletic apparel collections (primarily Sports Authority Aspire and Academy)
• Presented design concepts, linesheets, and sales samples at sales meetings to private label partners and their upper management
• Directed the design team to execute seasonal design vision as well as personally designing collections
• Incorporated customer feedback into final designs

Creative Design Director

• Designed four collections a year for both the active and Yoga collection
• Created technical spec packages for all items designed
• Managed the fit and comment process to factories through a pre-production coordinator from proto type through production
• Managed, sourced, and approved all trims, fabrics, and lab dips
• Created graphics and prepared them for camera ready art
• Attended trade shows, both, in the industry and trend versions
• Presented the collections to Sales staff and major accounts

Lead Design consultant

• Designed two seasonal innovative collections a year of women’s and men’s Triathlon, Swim, Cycle, and Run apparel, and a complementary accessories collection
• Created technical spec packages for all items designed
• Created, sourced, and approved all trims, fabrics,(including lab dips), and graphics • Collaborated on the design of all Zoot marketing tools, i.e.; Web site, workbooks, catalogues, ads, and PR kits
• Aided in the hiring of pre-production and production staff
• Attended trade shows, both, in the industry and trend versions
• Presented the collections to Board members, sales staff, and accounts major and small

Head of Design

•Launched and designed quarterly collections for both The Balance Collection and The Shiva Shakti Collection
• Advised and designed quarterly for the Marika fitness collection
• Attended a variety of yoga, pilates and fusion fitness classes and conventions to stay ahead of our industry trends
• Shopped the market in major cities for trend research
• Created presentation boards for design meetings
• Merchandised the line with the executive sales and design team
• Created technical spec packages for all items designed
• Created, sourced, and approved all trims, fabrics,(lab dips included), and graphics
• Created and maintained tech packs and BOM’s
• Responsible for the Lab Dip approval process.
• Visited oversee factories
• Conducted fittings of proto types through production garments
• Attended fabric trade shows
• Managed all production grading for all collections
• Developed Seamless Garment collection

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Andrea Cinque-Austin is a Global Creative Director of Apparel at New Balance in San Diego, CA.

Andrea Cinque-Austin

Andrea Cinque-Austin

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Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising

Women Unlimited Inc.