Freelancer profile translated to English.

Description

Hello, I have been working as a freelancer since 2012. I am specialized in the Luxury sector as a set designer, visual merchandiser and decorator.

I worked for 8 years internally for world-renowned luxury houses where I worked as visual merchandising manager, window designer as well as fashion stylist and set designer.

These various exciting experiences have given me a solid knowledge and mastery of this sector from Creation/Design to Project Realization/Installation. I started my career as a photo stylist for cutting-edge fashion magazines, which has largely contributed to shaping my eye, my fashion culture and my perspective on creation and images.

With this experience, I work with several companies by providing them with various services ranging from the creation of window concepts to visual merchandising, from in-depth reflection on the concept and identity of their brand (creation of product supports and furniture), interior decoration or space scenography such as showrooms, retail sales spaces and pop-up stores.

My status as a self-employed entrepreneur also allows me to produce the decorative elements that I recommend to provide "turnkey" services to my clients.

Indeed, I can have elements produced by my various suppliers, to provide my clients with a complete service and ensure a quality of service (production) that I would have supervised myself.

I am fully invested in each of my projects and always propose to carry out very creative and unique projects for my clients.

Industry field of expertise

Languages

English
Fluent
Italian
Conversational
French
Native or bilingual

Workplace preferences

Can work on-site

Montreuil (up to 50km)

Julien Spini
Set designer- window designer- Visual Merchandising
LUXURY GOODS
February 2014 - Today (12 years and 4 months)
Paris, France
Free-Lance:
Visual Merchandising, interior decoration, window design, set design for fashion shoots and scenographies.

-Théory (luxury ready-to-wear). Creation, production and installation of windows on rue du faubourg saint honoré and the London boutique.

-Frédéric Malle (luxury perfumery). Creation, production and installation of windows for the global network of 10 boutiques (Paris, London, Milan, USA and Middle East), pop-up stores and Christmas windows (Galeries Lafayette).

-Mugler (luxury ready-to-wear). Decorative facelift of the house's headquarters reception area. Creation, sourcing, production and staging of the space.

-Toni Maticevski (Australian luxury ready-to-wear designer). Creation and production of window concepts, pop-up stores at Harvey Nichols, reflection and identity creation for the brand concept (boutique furniture and showrooms). Production of the constituent elements of the concept (hanger, console, rack, bust, separation and decoration elements).

-Caroline de Marchi (luxury leather goods designer). Creation, production and staging of the concept of the Parisian showroom rue du Faubourg Saint Honoré.

-Azzi & Osta (Lebanese Haute Couture and luxury ready-to-wear designer). Sourcing of location and partnership for a haute couture shoot. Organization, search for photographer, models, hairdresser, make-up artist. Planning, organization and coordination of the shooting.

-Marché Serpette (Saint Ouen antique market). Creation, sourcing and staging of stands (tableware and furniture).

Portfolio :https://www.instagram.com/julienspini/
visual merchandising pop up store Vitrines Direction de projets Scénographie
Givenchy
Visual Merchandising and Archives Manager
LUXURY GOODS
January 2011 - February 2014 (3 years and 1 month)
Paris, France
Manager of a team of 3 people, development of the global Visual Merchandising policy. Creation and writing of guidelines, budget management, planning and projects of the department: showrooms in Paris, New York and Milan, press days, windows of Parisian boutiques and Haute-Couture presentations.
Training of international VM relays and travel during boutique openings.
Ensuring compliance with the merchandising policy during visits and exchanges with all points of sale in the form of photo reports. Collaboration with the architecture department on merchandising issues: verification of plans for the implementation of collections and orders for presentation supports.
Responsibility and management of the House's archives (loans to museums during exhibitions) maintenance and referencing of all incoming models from ready-to-wear and haute couture collections.
Visual Merchandising Policy creation of guidelines budget and planning management Management of the house archives team supervision
LANVIN
Lanvin Paris and worldwide network Window Manager
LUXURY GOODS
May 2007 - December 2010 (3 years and 7 months)
Paris, France
LANVIN Window Manager. Guarantor of their coherence, their impact and their image in Paris and worldwide.

Creation and development of unique concepts for Paris (men's and women's boutique) and declination of a homogeneous concept for the global network (retail and wholesale) of 30 points of sale.

-Research of ideas, collaboration and validation with the artistic director Alber Elbaz, organization of brainstorming and creation of themes in the form of story boards.
-Sourcing: search for suppliers and decorative elements.
-Budget: respect of envelopes per project, organization of partnerships with artists and brands.
-Production: organization, logistics, transport, internal communication.
-Implementation with the VM service team.
-Control, follow-up, photographic report for the House's archives and international VM relays.
-Elaboration and development of the window book (guidelines):
-Management of retroplanning, training of international merch relays, production management, control and sending of decoration kits worldwide.

In charge of the staging of Lanvin events:
-seasonal press presentations at the Hôtel de Crillon.
-creation of exceptional windows for the department stores "Printemps Haussmann" and staging of the corner of "Dover Street Market" in London every 6 months.
-creation of boutique/customer events.

Regular participation in the implementation of collections in boutiques and showrooms.
Window Manager Paris and worldwide concept creation and development production logistics organization guidelines development in charge of event scenographies