Matteo Bellentani

Matteo Bellentani

Global Creative Director / Head of Product & Design at Clarks Originals

London, England, United Kingdom
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Istituto statale d'Arte Mantova

About

Highly experienced in product, design and creative direction of lifestyle and iconic footwear brands, with +20 years demonstrated history of working in the sporting goods industry and fashion industry.
Skilled in wide teams management, injection of new concepts/innovations, icons curation, archive and cultural background study, consumers target research, product storytelling, marketing campaign support and activations.
Specialist in collaboration projects.
Passionated in product development and engineering.

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Experience

  • Clarks

    Clarks

    5 years

    • Clarks Graphic

      Global Creative Director / Head of Product & Design Clarks Originals

      Clarks

      - Present 1 year 6 months

      England, United Kingdom

    • Clarks Graphic

      Head of Product & Design - Clarks Originals

      Clarks

      - Present 5 years

      England, United Kingdom

      m/w main collection + collaborations

  • adidas Graphic

    Senior Manager Development Footwear - Collaborations - adidas Statement ///

    adidas

    - 3 years

    Herzogenaurach, Bavaria, Germany

    Product creation - Collaborations with brand assets - brand Originals and Performance.

  • Geox

    Geox

    10 years 7 months

    • Geox Graphic

      Casual/Sport footwear Collection Senior Product Manager

      Geox

      - 4 years 7 months

      Management of internal design team and external stilists.
      Line building, sketches , lasts creation , mockup creation , upper design and prototyping , materials creation/sourcing, costing.
      Presentation of the collections to sales force and holding the meetings scheduled according with calendar timing and dead-lines.
      Definition of the collections divided by deliveries in store and special packs ,price range , SMUs and Marketing Focus items.
      Looking to be a Sneakers Specialist

    • Geox Graphic

      Senior Footwear Designer

      Geox

      - 6 years 1 month

      Management of internal design team and external consultants.
      Experienced on materials and new technologies seeking.
      Trend and Markets research trips worldwide.
      concept sketching , development and improvements ( lasts, maquettes, final moulds, uppers).
      Dev trips in Asia's samplerooms for prototypes/samples creation.

  • Pattern Manager and Materials Manager

    Euroexport s.p.a.

    - 4 years 9 months

    Patternmaker and Materials Manager

  • sport footwear design award

    Kronos sport

    - 6 months

    "officina di stile" award by kronos and GQ ITALY magazine

Education

  • Istituto statale d'Arte Mantova

    Drawing and decoration diplom Art and Design

    Drawing and Decoration course

  • ARS SUTORIA Milan

    Footwear designer and patternmaker shoes

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Courses

  • Footwear design and patternmaking

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Languages

  • English

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