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Fashion and textile designer and creative lead with 10+ years of experience across ready-to-wear, luxury RTW, exports, and retail apparel. Experienced in leading design from concept to production, including sourcing fabrics and trims, managing manufacturing workflows, and maintaining consistent brand creative direction across campaigns and digital assets. Skilled in AutoCAD and Adobe Creative Suite for sketching, artwork, editing, and publishing-ready content. Acts as a hands-on creative director for catalogue and lifestyle photoshoots, with strengths in market research, trend-driven assortment planning, client relationship management, and collaboration with photographers, stylists, pattern makers, and production teams.…Fashion and textile designer and creative lead with 10+ years of experience across ready-to-wear, luxury RTW, exports, and retail apparel. Experienced in leading design from concept to production, including sourcing fabrics and trims, managing manufacturing workflows, and maintaining consistent brand creative direction across campaigns and digital assets. Skilled in AutoCAD and Adobe Creative Suite for sketching, artwork, editing, and publishing-ready content. Acts as a hands-on creative director for catalogue and lifestyle photoshoots, with strengths in market research, trend-driven assortment planning, client relationship management, and collaboration with photographers, stylists, pattern makers, and production teams.

Dulani Amarasingle

Textile Designer, Creative Director, Designer, +1

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Fashion and textile designer and creative lead with 10+ years of experience across ready-to-wear, luxury RTW, exports, and retail apparel. Experienced in leading design from concept to production, including sourcing fabrics and trims, managing manufacturing workflows, and maintaining consistent brand creative direction across campaigns and digital assets. Skilled in AutoCAD and Adobe Creative Suite for sketching, artwork, editing, and publishing-ready content. Acts as a hands-on creative director for catalogue and lifestyle photoshoots, with strengths in market research, trend-driven assortment planning, client relationship management, and collaboration with photographers, stylists, pattern makers, and production teams.…Fashion and textile designer and creative lead with 10+ years of experience across ready-to-wear, luxury RTW, exports, and retail apparel. Experienced in leading design from concept to production, including sourcing fabrics and trims, managing manufacturing workflows, and maintaining consistent brand creative direction across campaigns and digital assets. Skilled in AutoCAD and Adobe Creative Suite for sketching, artwork, editing, and publishing-ready content. Acts as a hands-on creative director for catalogue and lifestyle photoshoots, with strengths in market research, trend-driven assortment planning, client relationship management, and collaboration with photographers, stylists, pattern makers, and production teams.

Available to hire

Fashion and textile designer and creative lead with 10+ years of experience across ready-to-wear, luxury RTW, exports, and retail apparel. Experienced in leading design from concept to production, including sourcing fabrics and trims, managing manufacturing workflows, and maintaining consistent brand creative direction across campaigns and digital assets.

Skilled in AutoCAD and Adobe Creative Suite for sketching, artwork, editing, and publishing-ready content. Acts as a hands-on creative director for catalogue and lifestyle photoshoots, with strengths in market research, trend-driven assortment planning, client relationship management, and collaboration with photographers, stylists, pattern makers, and production teams.

Skills

Experience Level

Expert

Expert

Expert

Expert

Expert

Expert

Intermediate

Language

English

Fluent

Sinhala, Sinhalese

Fluent

Hindi

Intermediate

French

Beginner

Work Experience

Senior (Apparel) Designer at Dubai UAE Apparel Retail Chain

October 1, 2025 - Present

Senior apparel retail design work (ongoing). Responsible for managing design process from concept to production, trend and market research, sourcing coordination, and creating design packages/specs to support sampling and retail execution. Contributes to marketing and presentation assets and supports retail assortment refinement based on customer and store feedback.

Senior (Apparel) Designer at The Blue Group | Doha Adidas Franchise and Retail Chain

September 1, 2023 - September 30, 2025

Senior apparel design role supporting retail franchise chain. Developed trend-focused product concepts and seasonal assortment, created design and construction specifications for production, and provided fit comments to factories. Collaborated with stylists and photographers for campaign and photoshoot outputs. Involved in buyer-facing product development and maintained creative alignment with franchise requirements across locations, including merchandising input and store-related feedback loops.

Fashion Design Associate at BLSSD | Al Serkal Avenue (Dubai)

November 1, 2022 - September 30, 2023

Worked on ready-to-wear luxury brand based in Dubai & Beirut. Conducted research and sourcing to support new brand/product areas, developed design silhouettes and artworks, and managed fabric and accessory sourcing with production coordination. Created and edited publishing content using Adobe Creative Suite, maintained reusable design asset libraries, and supported omni-channel client relationship management. Directed styling tone during catalogue photoshoots and collaborated with teams to develop marketing concepts and presentation boards. Led design process from conception through production and contributed to assortment building using store team and customer feedback.

Fashion Designer at Jay Jay Mills (PVT) Ltd. | Colombo

March 1, 2022 - September 30, 2022

Ladies’ loungewear designer for knit and woven segments. Led a team of 3 employees (reporting to design manager and managing director). Curated fabrics/patterns/trims, collaborated with textile designers, pattern makers, and sample makers, and created seasonal merchandise assortments. Founded a girlswear brand for retail launch (30–40 styles per collection), executed brand strategies, oversaw visual/creative aspects, and ran fit sessions. Prepared design collections for buyers, produced teck-packs and construction specs, and guided pattern making, stitching, and embellishment through production plants. Also collaborated with photographers/stylists for campaigns and managed supplier relationships.

Fashion Designer at Cool Planet (PVT) Ltd. | Colombo Retail Chain

September 1, 2020 - February 1, 2020

Designed apparel for retail chain in Colombo with focus on women's loungewear and knit/woven categories. Supported creative development from sketches to specifications and coordinated with production teams to meet aesthetic and quality targets.

Junior Fashion Designer at Hirdaramani Knit Center of Operations (RiverIsland | TESCO | GUESS | DKNY) — Colombo

November 1, 2017 - January 31, 2020

Worked as a junior designer for global knit/apparel manufacturing and integrated apparel design operations. Produced design sketches, developed measurement and construction specifications, and supported production execution using teck-packs and fit feedback. Collaborated with pattern making, sample making, and production teams to align designs with buyer requirements.