Hi/Bonjour! My name is Heather Morneau and welcome to my design brainchild, Neau (Morneau – ha! Get it?). I am based in Paris, France.
Let’s make magic – for business inquiries contact me at neauofficial@gmail.com
CV
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
- Junior Production Manager
Julia Heuer (Paris, France)
January 2023 – Current
• Supervision of production across all product lines.
• Research and development of new product lines.
• Creation of technical files; cost tracking. - • Communication with suppliers and manufacturing sites.
• Liaison between the design, production, and sales departments in order to maximize sales potential.
• Pattern development and alteration.
• Creation of garment samples.
Sales Associate
Acne Studios (Paris, France)
December 2019 – September 2022
• Advising of clients in the boutique.
• Customer Relationships Management.
• A/W 2020 Paris Fashion Week show backstage assistance.
• Stock assistance.
Assistant Patternmaker
Bourgine (Paris, France)
March 2019 – July 2022
• Patternmaking and grading.
• Sample making.
• Garment alterations as per customer requests.
• Fabric and trim sourcing.
Wholesale Assistant
Rosehound Apparel (Toronto, Canada)
October 2016 – December 2017
• Re-design of the wholesale catalog and line sheet for the webshop.
• Event management assistance.
• Fulfillment of orders for customers and wholesalers worldwide.
• Inventory management.
Sewing Machine Operator
Peter Anthony Designs (Windsor, Canada)
May 2016 – August 2016
• Sewing seating covers for furniture used within restaurants in Canada and the USA.
• Upholstery.
SKILLS
Technical and Creative Clothing Design: sample making; patternmaking; draping; grading; embroidery.
Textile Design: print design; hand and machine knitting (Stoll automated machinery); screen-printing; laser-cutting.
Illustration: technical flats; creative illustration.
SOFTWARE
CAD/CAM: Gerber Accumark and Lectra Modaris
Adobe Suite
Microsoft Office Suite
Shopify
EDUCATION
Master Arts Plastiques (Mémoire title : Le textile comme tissu social : Son usage par les femmes comme outil sociopolitique à imaginer d’autres réalités de partage)
Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Paris, France 2022 – 2024
DSAA Mode Collection
École Duperré
Paris, France 2021 – 2022
Bachelor of Fashion Design
Toronto Metropolitan University ( formerly Ryerson University)
Toronto, Canada 2014 – 2019
Exchange Semester (Major: Print Design)
Amsterdam Fashion Institute
Amsterdam, Netherlands 2017
LANGUAGES
English: native tongue
French: intermediate