Sebastien Duchene
Fashion stylist
Sebastien Duchene
22 Adelina Grove, E1 3BX
London - United Kingdom
07739642697
Key Strengths:
- Formalwear/Tailoring
- Casualwear
- Detailing
- Efficiency/rapidity
- Deliver results
- Adaptability
- Work under pressure
WORK EXPERIENCE
MATCHESFASHION.COM, Menswear Senior Online Stylist, February 2014 to September 2015
Key responsibilities:
- Work closely with the Buyers, Style Director and the Studio team to deliver the products online and impeccably styled
- Booking and casting of models
- Travelling abroad for preshoots
- In charge of the online menswear styling (outfitting, rails checks, reshoots, training….)
- Prioritizing products
- Assisting the Style Director on various Editorial shoots
Achievements:
- Introduction of the first black model on Matchesfashion.com
- Creating Styling Guidelines from scratch
- Creating an in-house style
- Raising up the number of products shot per day
- Raising the standards and the quality of the styling
- Creating customer profile ( each category having specific brands with some cross over)
- Addition of accessories, creating add on sales
- Reshoots as low as less than 1%, and at zero% for month consecutively
Mr PORTER, Menswear Senior Online Stylist, January 2013 to February 2014
Key responsibilities:
- Report to the Online Editor
- Outfitting 15 to 30 looks per day
- Sourcing, researching and making presentation on trends, competitors…..
- Creating the styling guidelines with the Online Editor
- Attending various meeting on sales, trends ….
Achievements:
- Creation of the styling guidelines
- Trained the junior stylist
- Worked closely with the online stylist in the US
- Brought the formalwear/tailoring expertise and the eye to detail
- Monitoring and working on reducing the reshoots percentage
LACOSTE, UK Visual Merchandising Manager, from June 2010 to April 2012
Key responsibilities:
- VM Manager and stylist in charge of the UK market
- Planning, organizing, and achieving Window change, Floor move, and special events
- Working very closely with the Buying and Merchandising department
- Training In-store VM
- Working with Wholesale accounts
Achievements:
- Creating VM Guidelines for each season
- In-store VM training sessions
- Huge improvements of the standards
- Huge improvements on sale overall
HACKETT LONDON, from 2006 to 2009, Visual Merchandising co-ordinator to UK Interiors Visual Manager, to Europe Interiors Visual Manager
Key responsibilities and Achievements:
- In charge of the Europe stores (France, Spain, Ireland, Germany, Mexico)
- Ensuring the standards of the stores is impeccable as per the guidelines
- Planning floor moves, window change…working on floor plans
- Ordering, buying props and sending large furniture’s abroad
- Setting up show rooms all over Europe
- Stylist assistant for the SS09 brochure shoot in Sicily, for the AW09 first fashion show, for the AW09 look book, and various styling project involved
- In charge of the styling for the Pitti Uomo show, twice a year
- Creating the first ever Visual Directives for Retail and Wholesale
- Training new VM’s
- Styling assistant for the Brochure shoot and campaign for the SS09 in Cape Town, South Africa
EDUCATION
ISG PARIS, from 1998 to 2001, obtention of a BBA (Bachelor of Business and Administration)
HOBBIES
Sport, fashion design, reading, traveling…..