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Announcing Duke & Dexter, Dreems, Sea, Lingua Franca and Phillipa Lepley

Check out this week’s new partners and openings on BoF Careers, the global marketplace for fashion talent.
Duke & Dexter campaign | Source: Courtesy
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LONDON, United Kingdom — This week, we are pleased to introduce five new partners on BoF Careers.

Since launching in 2014, footwear brand Duke & Dexter is designed and handmade in the UK and ships to over 120 countries worldwide, with stockists including Harrods, Selfridges and Tsum. The brand has its headquarters in London, with a flagship store in Covent Garden. The brand won Draper's 2017 & 2019 Premium Footwear Brand of the Year. In 2019, it created an exclusive line with American rapper Snoop Dogg. Duke & Dexter seek a product manager, head of marketing and more in London.

Launched in 2017, Dreems is a retail, PR and consulting platform in New York for independent brands. Dreems provides a direct-to-consumer sales location, PR showroom representation and fashion consulting services. Currently, Dreems represents over 70 emerging fashion brands, including Richard Quinn, Litkovskaya, Juun.J, MSGM, Walk of Shame and GCDS. Dreems seeks a retail director, PR account manager and more in New York and London.

Womenswear brand Sea is designed and co-founded by childhood friends, Sean Monahan and Monica Paolini. The duo came together in 2009 to create the American brand. In 2013, Sea was inducted in the Council of American Fashion Designers (CFDA). Sea is looking for an associate designer, store manager and graphic designer in New York.

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Founded by Rachelle Hruska MacPherson in 2016, Lingua Franca is a line of sustainably sourced, Fairtrade luxury cashmere sweaters, hand-stitched by women living in New York. The company's stockists include Liberty London, Moda Operandi and Net-a-Porter. It has also donated to over 220 charitable organisations. Lingua Franca is looking for a head of merchandising, a head of wholesale and a retail locations manager in New York.

Established over thirty years ago in the heart of Chelsea, Phillipa Lepley is a London-based atelier for tailored, bespoke luxury wedding and evening dresses. The gowns are created over the course of seven precision fitting, with founder Lepley overseeing creative direction. Phillipa Lepley is seeking an experienced couture consultant/vendeuse to be based in London.

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