Fashion Design Assistant
8 hours ago
Pinky & Kamal — Byron Bay / Northern Rivers (On-site) Full-time or Part-time (3–5 days depending on candidate)
About Us
Pinky & Kamal is an Australian activewear and lifestyle brand known for considered fabrics, refined design, and elevated everyday essentials. We are in an exciting growth phase across e-commerce and wholesale, and we're looking for a highly organised, creative, and detail-driven Fashion Design Assistant to support our design and production workflow.
This role is ideal for someone who thrives in a fast-paced small-business environment, is passionate about product, and enjoys working across all stages of development, from early concept through to final production.
The RoleReporting directly to the Founder/Creative Director, you will support the design and production process across Activewear, Ready-to-Wear, Accessories, and upcoming seasonal collections.
Your responsibilities will include:
Design Support- Assisting with concept development, moodboards, fabric research, and seasonal inspiration.
- Helping refine silhouettes, colour palettes, and trim details.
- Creating and updating high-quality CADs and technical drawings in Adobe Illustrator (essential).
- Updating spec sheets and ensuring all design files remain accurate and detailed.
- Supporting fittings and contributing to fit notes, garment adjustments, and QC checks.
- Assisting with lookbooks, linesheets, and development decks.
- Communicating with offshore manufacturers (China/Indonesia) on samples, comments, and timelines.
- Tracking samples, swatches, lab dips, strike-offs and ensuring they are on schedule.
- Helping prepare POs, BOMs, and production handovers.
- Managing fabric libraries, trims library, and sample archive.
- Involvement in sustainability and fabric certification organisation.
- Supporting campaign shoots with styling prep, packing product, and on-set organisation.
- Helping prepare for wholesale showings (sample sets, labelling, organising SKUs, steaming).
- Maintaining an organised design studio + digital files.
- Updating Cin7 Core with new products + assisting with SKUs.
- Ad-hoc creative and admin tasks to support the design and production team.
- Have studied Fashion Design, Textile Design, Product Development or a similar field (required).
- Highly competent with technical drawings, garment specifications, and creating detailed CADs in Illustrator.
- A creative at heart with strong organisational skills.
- Experience in fashion design, product development, or a similar role.
- Strong eye for detail, fit, fabrication, and construction.
- Comfortable communicating with manufacturers and working across multiple projects at once.
- Passionate about activewear, lifestyle clothing, and thoughtful design.
- A positive, collaborative person who loves being part of a small but growing team.
- Experience with technical activewear or knit/stretch garments.
- Basic experience in Cin7 Core, Shopify, or wholesale linesheets.
- Understanding of sustainable fabrics, certifications, and responsible production.
- Ability to sketch by hand.
- Be part of a growing, women-led brand with a strong values-driven culture.
- Hands-on involvement across all stages of design + production.
- A creative environment with genuine opportunity to grow your skills.
- Work closely with the founder and be part of exciting brand expansion across Australia & internationally.
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