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hi

I’m Aishwarya Raghunath, a 26 - year - old Chennai girl with a passion for all things design. I’ve spent my time weaving (pun intended) through the worlds of film, media, and fashion brands. A mix of passion, resilience, hard work, and a healthy dose of bad humour—because who said you can’t work hard and crack a joke at the same time?

 

I graduated from NIFT Chennai with a Bachelor in Design in the year 2020, since then I’ve been on a journey of learning, growing, and challenging myself with projects that bridge design to every other creative medium out there.

education

2020

Certification

Fashion Industry Essentials,

Parsons The New School,

New York, USA

2016 - 2020

Graduation

Bachelor of Design (Knitwear Design)

National Institute of Fashion Technology,

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

(SGPA: 8.6)

2016

High School

The PSBB Millennium School,

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.

work experience

Costume Designing & Styling (Jan 2022 - current)

  • Costume designing for look test and made character look book for upcoming series Encounter

  • Designing for main lead in Kanthara 2

  • Costume designing for Chandramukhi 2

  • Costume designing for short film - The Handbag

  • Costume designing for award winning short film - La Thakum

  • Assistant costume designer for Ponniyin Selvan 1 & 2 - under Eka Lakhani

  • Styling for Chennai Kaaran Music video for ACKO ft. Arivu & Sanjay Subramaniam

  • Styling for Aana Oona music video for Vivek & Mervin

  • Styling for Sony music’s video - Kaadhal Kannadi

  • Styling for Sony music’s video - Iraivi

  • Styling for Prestige Endura Mixer ad directed by Gautham Vasudev Menon

  • Styling for Red Bus Ad directed by GVM sir

  • Styling for Prestige Onam Ad directed by GVM sir

  • Styling for 2 hands agarbathi ad - for Madhavan

  • Styling for the advertisement of Spotify - Leo movie

  • Styling for the advertisement of Vellamal School

  • Styling for Saravana Stores ad campaign

 

Senior Designer at Federal Soft Systems (Jan 2022 - July 2024)

  • Researching, documenting, and providing design solutions for marketing strategies

  • Providing new creative ideas to promote social media content

  • Designing & developing content for social media

  • Designing & developing ads for Facebook, google and Daily Hunt

  • Curating & developing brand book to stream line brand language for products.

  • Creating pitch decks for brands

  • Designing creatives for banners, brochures, certificates, and templates for company internal purposes, and other credentials

  • Developing presentations for launches, quarterly and yearly targets, and employee orientation

 

Costume Designer for the movie Chandramukhi 2 (Sept 2022 – Sept 2023)

  • Designing costumes for the periodic part of the film

  • Understanding the characters, film’s script, and color palette of the same prior to designing

  • Styling actors for their respective characters according to their body types and their characters

  • Styling and designing for background characters Managing a team of 40+ people in the costume department

Fashion designer at Nurture Blooms, Chicago, USA (September - December 2020)

  • Conceptualising for the launch collection

  • Designing for AW20/21

  • Creating Technical sketches and tech packs

  • Designing hand tags

  • Overlooking the product development i.e. manufacturing process

 

Sportswear designer at Zelrano, Chennai, India (August - October 2020)

  • Detailed analysis of Sportswear trend forecast was done prior to the development of the collection

  • Designing sportswear, activewear and athleisure for men and women

  • Development of 100+ designs with technical details and tech packs for each garment

  • Designing labels and tags

 

Design Internship at Sweaters India - Flat knit export company (June - July 2019)

  • Development of a capsule collection encompassing a unisex clothing line made with sustainable materials for the European market

  • Experimentation of fabric development creating unique textures and tactile surfaces with sustainable materials

  • Understanding the functioning of an export company and learning the different certificates procured for manufacturing with international standards.

Womenswear design intern at Pepe Jeans London (June 2018) 

  • Survey and analysis of the Indian fashion market was conducted

  • Sample checking with tech-packs

  • Developing tech packs for upcoming season

awards & recognitions

  • Certificate of recognition - “for your exceptional performance and diligence towards organisational goals” from Federal Soft Systems (April 2022)

  • Winner of Meritorious Student Award from NIFT (July 2020)

  • Paper presentation at IIT Delhi on draping which is published by Springer Journals (February 2020)

  • Runner up in Ability Foundation’s Inclusive Fashion Competition (February 2018)

skills

  • Softwars

    • Adobe Phototshop 2024

    • Adobe Illustrator 2023

    • Adobe InDesign 2023

    • Microsoft Word 2021

    • Microsoft Office 2021

    • Microsoft Powerpoint 2021

    • Keynote

    • Pages

    • Numbers

  • Creative Writing

  • Illustration and sketching

  • Draping, sewing and knitting

  • Digital illustration for graphic designing and print development

  • Styling and costume designing

  • Fabric development for flat knits with SDS One knit paint and Shima Seiki

  • Time Management

  • Creative and innovative thinking

  • Adaptability

  • Mental Agility

  • Collaboration and teamwork

  • Goal setting and decision making

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