ANBREEN AKHTER
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Textile designer with 1 year of experience in Apparel Design, Print Development, Sales and Color expertise. I am looking for a position as a Textile/Fashion designer to use my creative skills to create amazing and invocative products.
Expertise Design development, Color expertise, Sketching, Fashion illustrations, Styling, Fabrication, and Textures.
Work Experience
Senior Design Developer 2007 to 2008
Sobia Nazir www.Sobianazir.net Islamabad, Pakistan
Worked as a designer and was responsible for Fall’07 collection
Worked directly with clients for their personalized orders.
Set and Costume Designer 2007
Bombay Dreams Theater Play Islamabad, Pakistan
Set and Costume design for the play ‘Bombay dreams’. Designed Asian attire for the main lead and dancing team in the play. There were 27 different dresses (styles) altogether. For set design, we created 5 different backdrops for 5 different scenes with different techniques.
Set Designer 2006
Phantom of the Opera Theater Play Islamabad, Pakistan
Part of the Set design team for the play. In this project I did the backdrops, some with just the power of color techniques, some with embroidery impression painting techniques. Also did the interiors.
Honors and Achievements
● Supervised and managed a fashion show for designer Sobia Nazir in 2005, acted as coordinator.
● Won 2nd prize in an Inter-University Design Development competition held in 2007.
Education
Bachelors in Textile Design 2009
Islamabad, Pakistan
COURSEWORK: 5 Advanced Print Making courses, Weaving, Studio Techniques, Fashion Illustration, Fundamentals of Designs, Color Theory, Adobe work shop, Dyeing process, Fashion Styling Embroidery, Shoe & Handbag designing.
Strengths
● Excellent understanding of garment design.
● Strong fashion and color sense and the ability to create and adapt designs to changing market conditions.
● Significant ability to interpret client requirements and create designs that pinpoints their target market.
● Good knowledge of fabrics, and the ability to choose the best match between garment design and fabric.
● Proven ability to translate client garment design requirements into design illustrations using leading design software such as Adobe Illustrator and Photo shop.
● Equally adept at performing as a project team member or working independently, depending on the nature of the project at hand.
● Excellent written and verbal skills. Able to work in a team environment.