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Tools and templates from the studio. Direct, practical, built from twenty years of consultancy work.
A fill-in-the-blanks tech pack you can take straight to a manufacturer. Built from real production packs by a consultant with twenty years taking brands from a drawing to a finished collection.
THE TECH PACK TEMPLATE
A factory can only make what your tech pack tells it to make. Most first tech packs miss the parts a manufacturer actually needs — the inside construction, the measurements with tolerances, the bill of materials — and the sampling goes round in circles. This template gives you every page a manufacturer expects, in the order they expect it, ready to fill in.
It's built off the same seven-step structure as my tech pack guide, with the inside and construction detail added that a real factory-ready pack needs. The data pages — bill of materials, points of measure, costing — are a spreadsheet that opens in Excel or Google Sheets, so anyone can use it. Eighteen construction call-outs are written in factory voice on a dedicated sheet, ready to drop onto your own flats.
The page most beginners leave out is the inside construction page: seam finishes, linings, bindings, internal pockets, stitch types and where the label sits. It's the one factories most need to quote and sample accurately. It's in here, with prompts for what to put where.
You also get a completed worked example — both the spreadsheet and a real production-style PDF flat — so you can see how a finished tech pack looks before you start your own. And a one-page quick-start guide that walks you through it from blank to ready-to-send.
It comes from my own production tech packs, with every client name and confidential detail stripped out. There's a small "Template by James Hillman" credit in the footer that travels with the document to your factory — you can remove it any time you want a clean page.
What's included
Tech pack data template (Excel / Google Sheets) — style summary, bill of materials, colourways, points of measure with tolerances, costing sheet with the sums built in, and a construction notes sheet with factory-voice call-outs
Worked example — Excel — a filled-in men's Oxford shirt across all sheets, so you can see how a real one is built
Worked example — PDF flat — a production-style men's Oxford shirt flat, branded, showing how the visual side of a tech pack reads
One-page quick-start guide (PDF) — blank to ready-to-send, in plain steps
Single-user licence — no resale; footer credit removable
Specifications
Format: Microsoft Excel (.xlsx) data pages + PDF worked example + PDF quick-start guide
Compatibility: Excel 2016 and later, Google Sheets, Numbers (Mac), PowerPoint Online (free)
Sections: cover/style summary, flats, inside construction, bill of materials, colourways, points of measure, labels & packaging, costing, construction notes
Editable: yes — all spreadsheet text, sections, measurements and colours; nothing locked
Delivery: instant download (zip) after purchase
Two industry-credible CV templates for fashion students breaking into the UK industry. Modernist variant for contemporary brands, heritage variant for luxury houses. Built-in guidance from a senior consultant who has reviewed hundreds of CVs.
The Fashion Student CV Template Pack
Most fashion student CVs read like office templates that someone has reformatted. This pack is the version a senior consultant would actually want to receive — built around what brands look for, what they ignore, and where students consistently fall short.
The pack contains two templates: a modernist variant for students aiming at contemporary brands like Toteme, Khaite, The Row and Jacquemus, and a heritage variant for those targeting luxury houses like Dior, Hermès, Burberry and Chloé. The same content structure runs across both — different typographic and colour languages so each version lands the way it's supposed to in front of the right reader.
Each template comes with built-in guidance from someone who has reviewed hundreds of fashion CVs. Section by section: what to write, what to skip, what brands quietly score you on. The "I'm passionate about fashion" opener is gone. Vague bullets like "team player" are gone. In their place: the specific moves that take a CV from rejected pile to interview shortlist.
The templates are .docx — they open in Microsoft Word, Google Docs, or Apple Pages. Edit freely. Replace the placeholder content with your own. Match the accent colour to your target brand's palette. Submit.
Here's everything in the pack: both CV templates — the modernist and the heritage — plus a full PDF preview of each so you can see the finished layout before you start editing. A colour palette reference card with six tested palettes for different brand contexts, hex codes ready to drop in. A README that walks you through setup, the placeholder convention, and how to change the colours in Word. And a single-user licence. Six files, instant download.
What's included
Modernist CV template (.docx) — Arial throughout, all-caps with tracked spacing, deep forest green accent
Heritage CV template (.docx) — Garamond display headings, Arial body, deep navy accent
PDF preview of each template — see the full layout before you start editing
Colour palette reference card (.pdf) — six tested palettes for different brand contexts (heritage menswear, contemporary minimalist, etc.)
README — setup notes, the placeholder convention explained, walkthrough on changing colours in Word
Single-user licence — no resale
Specifications
Format: Microsoft Word (.docx)
Compatibility: Word 2016 and later, Google Docs, Apple Pages
Length: 2 pages A4
Editable: yes — all text, colours, fonts, structure
Delivery: instant download after purchase