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Men's Performance and Lifestyle Apparel

Men's Performance and Lifestyle Apparel

SkechersProduct Development2025
Overview

At Skechers, I worked on the men's product development team supporting lifestyle and performance apparel across basketball, golf, court sports, and outerwear. My role focused on guiding styles from early design intent through sample development, ensuring each product aligned with performance needs, brand standards, and production realities.

Responsibilities
  • Partnered with design, technical design, and merchandising to translate concepts into executable products
  • Maintained clarity across the development process—tracking updates, flagging issues early, and keeping styles moving through proto and SMS stages
  • Led material, trim, and color development, testing new fabrics, finishes, and construction details
  • Balanced cost, quality, and factory capabilities across all development decisions
  • Supported NBA athlete tunnel looks along with additional special projects for Skechers-sponsored professional athletes in golf and pickleball
  • Sharpened ability to balance design vision with real-world constraints including cost targets, materials availability, and production timelines
Skills
  • Apparel product development workflow
  • Materials, trim, and color development
  • Sample tracking (Proto & SMS)
  • Technical flat interpretation
  • PLM & BOM accuracy
  • Cross-functional collaboration
  • Vendor communication
What I Learned

Developing at scale sharpened my ability to balance design intent with cost, materials, and production constraints—skills I now apply to smaller, more experimental projects as well.

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Skechers development process
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Skechers development process
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Skechers development process
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