About Chloe
I am a 28-year-old French designer, who started her journey getting a Bachelor in Product Design in Paris, before switching to Jewelry Design. I studied for 3 years at the Haute École de Joaillerie, owning my DMA in Fine Jewelry Design in 2015.
Travel being my second passion, I knew I would move abroad for a while once I graduated. What started as an 3-month internship in Bangkok eventually turned into a three-and-a-half year experience, working for the fine jewelry manufacturer Trimoro. There I got to work closely with international brands, attend fairs in Hong-Kong, Vicenza, Las Vegas, and more importantly see on a day-to-day basis the full process behind the making a piece of jewelry : stone sourcing, CAD, casting, bench work, setting, polishing…
This was immensely formative, and gave me the necessary tools to get started as a freelance designer when I moved to Dubai in 2020. There I continued working for various international brands, and started doing custom jewelry for private customers : engagement rings, gift to celebrate brithdays, anniversary, births...
French
Native or bilingual
English
Fluent
Can work on-site
Lille (up to 10km)
Experience
- TrimoroFine Jewelry DesignerLUXURY GOODSFebruary 2017 - February 2020 (3 years and 1 month)Bangkok, Thailand- Design Fine Jewelry for Trimoro's own collections and for international customers/brands, working from sketches, marketing briefs, loose gemstones...- Realistic drawing on Adobe Illustrator for a detailed, accurate design- Manage a team of two designers- Consult with the production manager for technical aspects- Follow up with the CAD team and the workshop for adjustments, stone patterns...- Attend trade shows such as HKTDC Hong Kong, JCK or VicenzaOro, in order to spot trends, meet and advise customers, create custom designs, assist in the sale process
- Artinian / SartoroFine Jewelry DesignerLUXURY GOODSNovember 2016 - January 2017 (3 months)Bangkok, Thailand- Design jewelry to extend existing collections : "Stella" for Sartoro and "Happy" for Artinian- Create one-of-a-kind pieces- Currate moodboards according to current trends and inspirations- Attend weekly Marketing & Design Development meetings
- PiagetFine Jewelry Design InternLUXURY GOODSApril 2015 - April 2015 (1 month)Genève, Switzerland- Hand-drawing and gouaches for custom orders- Trends research and sketches for High Jewelry rings- Drawings (using Adobe Illustrator) and gouaches of earrings and necklaces inspired by the "Rose" and "Possession" collections
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Education
- Product Design BachelorENSAAMA Olivier de Serres2012BA in Product Design - Applied Arts : clay modeling, drawing, painting, photography... - Design Studio : work according to a brief, study existing and competition, research trends, sketches, Illustrator drawing, computer-aided design... - Workshop : fabrication of mock-ups and prototypes in wood, foam, plastic... - Other classes : design history, philosophy, French, English, mathematics, physics...
- DMA Art du Bijou et du Joyau / Fine Jewelry Design degreeHaute Ecole de Joaillerie2015- Applied Arts : sketch, hand-drawing, gouache, design jewels for graduation project - Computer graphics : 3D modeling (using Rhinoceros and Matrix), Adobe Suite - Gemology - Bench jewellery : sawing, soldering, drilling, filing, shaping, polishing, wax carving… Manufacture jewels designed in Applied Arts class - Literature and philosophy : research artistic and literary inspirations for Applied Arts class, writing a hundred-page personal report for graduation project
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