susanna cognigni

Passionated about fashion from a very young age, I moved to London to study fashion design at Central Saint Martin's School of Art, then I attended a Technical Pattern Cutting Course in Sant'Elpidio a Mare, a small Town in a very famous area for footwear where I enriched my passion with all the technical knowledges essential to develope a shoes collection.

After various experiences in some fashion consultant offices, I started to be one of the Sixty SpA team, finally I started to realize my dream to work for a fashion brand and I was proud of it as I used to fully create and develope the killah brand collection; I say fully because I used to organize all the collection, drawing all the styles, developing and controlling the entire collection; it was not so easy as I used to come from a very different world, as in the consulting team offices where I used to work, I used to follow artisanal leather fashion collections while the Killah Brand target customer is very young and very affected by all the rapid changes in fashion, so the product mustn't be so expensive and "building" nice shoes in low prices was very exting for me and actually I was really good on it ;)!!!

Thanks to this experience I also learned to work with foreign working realities as China and India, as in the last 4 years I used to realize the collection, from protos to production, entirely in Asia, following all the samples from italy and checking them directly in China moving there 6 times per year.

This is the longest experience I used to have and it helped me to familiarize with my skills and knowledges with research, product developing and to work in team that I really used to love, as I think that relating and cooperating with others is the best way to enhance creativity and innovation.

Now is time to change, and looking forward to find the right new challenge to extend my wealth and to spice up my passion and my working life in order to put into practice my experiences and my knowledges, to learn the most I can to refine my working method and to discover and beyond my inconscious qualities and my limits.