Founded in Istanbul in 1991, Mavi designs a full collection of jeans-wear, for young women and men. Turkey’s first fashion brand to become global, Mavi has been the leading jeans brand in Turkey since the last 17 years with 15 % market share.Mavi is now sold at over, 5000 specialty stores, better department stores and specialty chains in 50 countries including the US, Canada, Turkey, Australia, Germany, Netherlands and Russia. Mavi has over 326 retail stores with flagships in New York, Vancouver, Istanbul, Berlin, Frankfurt, Dusseldorf, Dietzenbatch, Hamburg, Munich, Munster, Oberhausen, Leipzig, Bremen and Moscow. Mavi posted 30 percent growth annually. Today Mavi is a $ 400.000.000 company. Global denim unit sales is more than 7 million per year.
Apart from its own retailing network, Mavi is available at leading international chain stores including Nordstrom, Lord&Taylor, Brooklyn Industries, Peek&Cloppenburg, Breuninger and David Jones, and is sold next to premium and high-end denim brands.
Mavi’s philosophy is to build a brand around perfect fitting jeans that convey a Mediterranean feeling in terms of fashion and detail. Maviterranean is exotic and inspirational, contemporary and accessible. Mavi, which means “blue” in Turkish, is known for high quality, great fitting and fashion-forward premium denim that not only fits the bodies of its customers, but also their lifestyles and quality expectations as well.
In 2006 Time Magazine placed Mavi amongst the top 16 best jeans brand worldwide in its A-List. Also, according to AC Nielsen’s survey in Turkey, Mavi is one of the most 10 recognized brands next to Coca Cola, Nike and Adidas. In 2009 Mavi has choosen the best place to buy jeans by Georgia Straight weekly magazine of Canada. In 2012 the world-famous Sportswear magazine chose Mavi to be the ‘Best Denim Brand’.
With the approach then “design carries the product to the brand”, Mavi cooperates with designers and consultants from all over the world and has a multi-cultural designer team based in İstanbul. Most famous and successful jean designer Adriano Goldschmied, queen of best-fits Venucia de Russi, Rıfat Özbek who designed his first jeans collection for Mavi, Hussein Chalayan who designed his first collection with a Turkish brand are some of the world famous designers that Mavi already worked with. Also Mavi has lately announced our collaboration with world famous designer Hussein Chalayan. International celebrity fans of Mavi include Adriana Lima, Nicola Formichetti, Avril Lavigne, Fergie, Lady Gaga, Kate Winslet, Hayden Panetterie, Girlicious, Jully Black, Josh Hollowey, Zac Efron, Hillary Duff, Jason Biggs, Juliette Lewis, Julia Stiles, Stephen Amell, Billy Zane, Annie Lenox, Jessica Alba, Katherine Heigl, Jon Kortajarena, Francisco Lachowski, Sara Sampio, Christine Milan and Barbara Palvin.
Garment Technology Assistant,
The requirements for the successful candidate are:
- B.Sc. degree from a reputable university in Textile Engineering discipline,
- Minimum 1 year of work experience in wovens and / or knitwear,
- Strong technical knowledge of garment fitting, grading and construction,
- Motivation to improve the product and strive for the highest achievable quality,
- Preferably, good command of written & spoken English language,
- Good level of MS Office applications,
- No obstacles for travel,
- No military service obligation for male candidates.
İŞ TANIMI
Reporting to the Fit Technical Manager,
The key duties of the successful candidate are:
- Ensure that the garments are being produced to the required quality standard and that manufacturing is measured within tolerance,
- Work out size specifications and plan how new garments will be made up by producing initial and graded size charts,
- Attend fit sessions together with Product Development and Design Team,
- Monitoring the production of sample garments and may alter the design slightly to fit manufacturing requirements.
Applicants with suitable qualifications are kindly invited to apply through kariyer.net.
Candidates who will be invited to job interviews will be contacted primarily via phone.
All applications will be acknowledged and treated confidentially.