About me
Hi, I am a contemporary fashion designer, skilled in garment designs, fashion illustration, textile/fabric print, repeat, and non-repeat patterns, mood boards, flat sketches, initial tech pack and print on demand designs projects(POD)
I am well versed with both Photoshop and Illustrator for designing.
Skilled in Laser cutting designs.
I won the best designer award for corporate wear for my diploma fashion show.
I have displayed garments with WW1 themed digital prints in Blackburn Museum.
Looking forward to working on interesting projects.
Thank you
Projects
- Active wear collectionHi, my name is Prarthana, I am a fashion and textile designer. I can design a collection for your new brand or adding a new collection to your existing brand. Garment design and fashion illustration with front and back on model draped e.g. dress, legging, sports bra, hoodie, T-shirt etc; In plain colours. looking forward to discussing your projects. Thank you.
Work history
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Freelance Graphic DesignerFreelance
United KingdomFreelance
Theme garments for WW1 centenary featured at Blackburn Museum UK and documented in Lancashire Telegraph.
Backstage assistant withfashion designer Rocky S and Malini Ramani at Indian Fashion Show.
Research project with Sr. Fashion Designers at Herdy Groups on tech-pack details for Kids Poncho (May- June 2015).
Exhibited my fabric prints on the opening night of Blackburn is Open organised by Wayne Hemingway along with local media.
Started women's wear bespoke tailoring business in Pune, India (Feb '05 - Nov '06)
Designing Promo Bags, Business Cards, Leaflets, Magazine sections at
Zorba Arts (Oct '02 - Sep '04).
Accessories & Jewellery Design at Prem's Imitation Jewellery, Pune. Also responsible for selecting ready- made samples sensing the market trends.
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Fashion DesignerTrutex Ltd
- Clitheroe, United KingdomFull Time
As Designer/Developer I am have experience in creating initial development product specifications, including sketches, design details, construction details, initial size chart.
Working with Sales and Commercial teams to create new styles and products as appropriate, and to interpret customer's design requirements, developing them into design concepts.
Working with Fabric Technician, understanding current fabric database, fabric source routes, MOQ’s and prices, to ensure appropriate fabrics are chosen to fulfil the brief.
Understand timelines and organise workloads and work to deadlines to deliver design boards, samples & prices, to enable orders to be placed on time for customer delivery.
To assess colour of fabric and lab dips visually, and colour match
To use Illustrator/Photoshop for design work, Outlook, Vision for specifications & task manager.
Communicate clearly and effectively with employees offshore, and with offshore suppliers for whom English is not a first language.
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Skills
- Fashion
- Creating Moodboards
- Drawing-painting-fashion Illustration
- Fashion Design/patternmaking/construction
- Commercial Fashion
- Fashion Assistant
- Spec Sheets
- Collection Design
- Colour Palette
- Digital/ Print
- Digital Embroidery
- Embroidery Digitising
- Trend Research
- Fabric Sourcing
- Manufacturing Knowledge
- Hand Embroidery
- Fabric Manipulation
- Laser Cut
- Laser Cutting
- Laser Engraving
- Laser Etching
- Research Methods
Education
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FdA Fashion Design TechnologyLancaster University
- Blackburn, United Kingdom
Passed with Distinction in Contemporary fashion design. Specialisation in Laser cut designs and Women's luxury Coats & Jackets.
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Diploma Fashion DesignLancaster University
- Koregaon Park, Pune, Maharashtra, India
Won Best Fashion Designer Award 2005, as judged by the Editor of Femina fashion magazine at the annual festival for my collection in Corporate wear and cleared with Distinction.
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Awards
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Best Fashion designerNiFD fashion institute
Won Best Fashion Designer Award 2005, as judged by the Editor of Femina fashion magazine at the annual festival for my collection in Corporate wear and cleared with Distinction.