Holiday 2021 Women’s Wovens (Tops, Dresses, Kimonos) & Fashion Knits
Fall 2021 Women’s Wovens (Tops, Dresses, Kimonos) & Fashion Knits
Lookbook for my Senior Capstone - Submerged
Photography : Earlybird Films
Model : Lucy Beauchamp
Designer : Rachel Wilz
Submerged is a womens swimwear collection. This collection is my senior capstone, which is a two semester long project that is a culmination of all I have learned throughout my schooling and internship experiences. Submerged will be presented at the University of Cincinnati’s DAAPWorks starting April 30, 2020.
While working at Victoria’s Secret as a Design Intern on their Sport Lifestyle team, I was tasked with creating a innovative collection or idea to present to the head of design at the end of my internship. I created a Build Your Own Lifestyle Set, where I created 3 customer profiles, a lifestyle collection, and a website mock-up of the best way I thought they should merchandise this set.
Tech Packs for some of the styles for my Victoria’s Secret Internship Project
While interning at American Eagle, I was responsible for designing four Spring 2019 styles between tops and dresses - started with research and sketching, then chose fabrics and colors, and created tech packs, which were then passed off for production.
May 2018 - August 2018
An everyday loungewear collection
Design Internship Work
January 2017-May 2017 & August 2017-December 2017
Ready-to-Wear Fall/Winter 2019
Sew & Sow was created in a collaborative studio class in which one student from industrial design, fashion design, and graphic design connect and create a company & product to sell. Sew & Sow was created by Brigitta Gegenheimer, Rachel Wilz, and Megan VanSant. We created an everyday bag with a focus on being natural. Our bags are hand-made with natural cotton canvas and are dyed with all vegetable dyes (vegetables used for the dyes were food waste & scraps generously donated from a few restaurants around downtown Cincinnati). We made and sold 15 bags during the semester of our collaborative studio class.
