Designer Activewear
Core
Design and develop innovative, trend-driven activewear collections, translating fashion and cultural influences into relevant silhouettes, colors, fabrics, and design details.
Role type
Fashion Designer (Activewear)
Builds
Activewear collections for PENN. Penningtons
Domain
Fashion / Activewear
Deliverable
product features
Required skills
Fashion design, trend interpretation, sketching, garment construction, fit analysis, color story development, fabric selection, design package creation
Preferred skills
Bilingualism (French/English), customer insight, commercial awareness
Technologies
None stated
Responsibilities
Design and develop innovative, trend-driven activewear collections, exploring new fabrics, fits, silhouettes, and functional details that reflect our brand identity and evolving customer needs. Translate fashion, cultural and consumer influences into relevant silhouettes, colour stories, fabrics and design details. Develop sketches, garment concepts and design packages that clearly communicate creative intent. Bring a clear design point of view to fittings and collection reviews, with close attention to fit, proportion, construction and finishing. Partner closely with Merchandising to balance creative vision, customer needs and commercial opportunity. Use customer response, competitive insights and hindsight to continuously strengthen future collections. Explore new ideas, materials and design opportunities that bring freshness and relevance to the assortment. Own the creative execution of assigned categories, ensuring consistency with seasonal direction and the PENN. brand.
Seniority
Mid-level (3–5 years experience)