Siddartha Patnaik

Siddartha Patnaik

1^st February 2015 – Till Date (1 Year & 5 Months)

Proprietor (Champa Aur Chinti, Bhubaneswar)

• Micro start – up company creating contemporary Lifestyle & Fashion products based on Sustainable Design.
• Handicraft mainstay– Pipli Appliqué’ & Patachitra.
• Handloom focus – Kotpad Textiles.
• Employee Strength – 10.
• Clients – KARIGAR-OKHAI, Csr initiative of Tata Steels Ltd., The Haldwani Furniture Mart, Sambalpuri Bastralaya (Govt of Odisha), Utkalika (Govt. of Odisha), Shail Sourcing, Vrinda Trading, Custom Order Clients, Amazon (in process), Crafts Furnish (in process) etc.

19^th September 2013- 31^st January 2015 (1 year & 4 months)

Associate Professor (School of Fashion Technology, Kaligna Institute of Industrial Technology, Bhubaneswar.)

• Fashion Design academics & curriculum development including Foundation Programme in Design.
• Industry linkages & tie-up.
• Placement & Internship coordinator
• Visiting Faculty coordination.
• Seminars & Workshops.
• Student development & over all welfare.

01^st  June 2013 – 19^th September 2013 (4 months)

Freelance Textile Designer & Visiting Faculty (Bhubaneswar & Pune)

• Raas, Bhubaneswar, Odisha.
• SOFT, SNDT (MKSS), Pune, Maharashtra.

15^th Sep 2010 – 31^st May 2013 (2 years & 8 months)

Assistant Professor (National Institute of Fashion Technology, Bhubaneswar.)

• Design Academics to the Foundation Year Textile Design (Bachelor Degree Program), Specialization Year Textile Design (Bachelor Degree Program) & Fashion Management Studies dept. (Master Degree Program).

April 2009- 14^th Sep 2010 (1 year & 5 months)

Associate Professor (School of Fashion Technology, Kaligna Institute of Industrial Technology, Bhubaneswar.)

• Profile- 1 year Foundation program formulation with structure & objectives, common to Fashion & Textile Design course (4 year Bachelor Degree). Academic course content & objective formulation for the degree course in Textile Design.

July 2007- March 2009 (1 year & 8 months)

Design Resource (Indian Inc., New Delhi.)

• Profile- Design Management for Exports & Retail. Visual Merchandising.
• Buyer Clients – World Market (USA), CBK (USA), Waterford (USA), Michael Aram (USA), the Pier (UK), Past Times (UK) & GLTC (UK).
• International Visit- HeimTextile 2008 & DomoTex 2008 at Frankfurt & Hanover, Germany respectively to meet the buyers, place new orders with vendors & visit the fairs.
• Retail- ZAZA, a lifestyle store for Fashion & Home along with a Bistro & Gallery Space. Design Management & Visual Merchandising for Fashion, Home & promotional merchandise.

July 2006- July 2007 (1 year)

Designer /Home Stylist (Gharana, Bombay.) Range Development, Sourcing, Sampling & Costing.

Executing the order for the German Buyer Euro Dreams.

Dec2005- July2006 (8 months)

Freelance Designer (Ms. Zareena Yousif, Dubai. New Delhi Office)

Garments- JALABIYA (Traditional Arabic dress, Dubai market) & Western Gowns (European market). Sourcing & Costing.

Dec2002-Dec2005 (3 years)

Designer/Sample Coordinator (Mbellish, New Delhi.)

Made-ups. Sourcing & Costings. Buyers- L & T, TCS & Pier1.

Apr2002- Dec2002 (9 months)

Designer (Crystal Connexions Pvt. Ltd. , New Delhi)

Women’s wear. RTW Casuals, Saris, Stoles, Shawls, Scarves & Fashion bags. Designing. Costing.

• Under Textile Design & Development course as Diploma Project 2002.
• Visual Merchandising for the Lalldro’ show room in New Delhi.

Professional Qualification

• Natural Dyeing & extraction of Natural Dyes- Week long training program undertaken at Gandhi Gram Trust, Gandhi Gram, Tamil Nadu. SEP 2009.
• TEXTILE DESIGN & DEVELOPMENT - a two-year Post- Graduate Diploma from NIFT, New Delhi. JULY 2000- JULY 2002. Master in Design (Bridge Course 2009), NIFT, New Delhi Centre.
• FASHION DESIGN - a three-year Graduate Diploma from NIFT, Calcutta. JULY1997- JULY 2000.
• MS-Office, Corel Graphics & Adobe Photoshop.
• CAD-Info Design Meta studio, Fashion Studio and Auto –Tex 2000.
• Details given in Industry Experience.
• Under Fashion Design course.
• Areas of project- Conceptualizing, styling and constructing a collection with the theme Let’s Rain.

TEXTILE  and  CRAFT DOCUMENTATION

JULY 2001 TRIBE- DONGARIA KHONDS. Orissa.

JUNE 1998 TRIBE- ORAON. Madhya Pradesh.

INDUSTRY INTERNSHIP                                                                      

DEC 2000JAYA SHREE TEXTILES, RISHRA (West Bengal).

MAY 1999CENTWIN GROUP OF INDUSTRY, TIRRUPUR (Tamil Nadu).

Tex-Styles India-2002   NIFT Theme Pavilion

NIFT & NCJD JUTE DIVERSIFICATION PROJECT

NIFT- Tex a Textile workshop

Hindi (RWS), English (RWS), Odiya (S) & Bengali (S). R- Read, W- Write & S- Speak.

 Volunteered for SALAM BALAK TRUST, (PVR Saket, New Delhi branch) for two months (Aug 2008 to Oct 2008).

• Design Development & Management in Woven & Surface Design for Home Textiles & Fashion Apparels.
• Green Designs, Sustainability, Up-cycling, Recycling & Best out of Waste.
• Traditional Crafts & Arts- Revival & Product Development.
• Product Packaging & Visual Merchandising.
• Trend study & Forecasting.

Product Marketing & Merchandising.