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Dulani Amarasingle

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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.

About

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.

  • 6 years' experience
  • Joined July 2026

Languages

  • EnglishFluent
  • Sinhala, SinhaleseFluent
  • HindiIntermediate
  • FrenchBeginner

Industry experience

  • Retail
  • Manufacturing
  • Consumer Goods

Work experience· 6 roles

Senior (Apparel) Designer · Dubai UAE Apparel Retail ChainOct 2025 – Present · 1 yr 2 mos

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 · The Blue Group | Doha Adidas Franchise and Retail ChainSep 2023 – Sep 2025 · 2 yrs 1 mo

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 · BLSSD | Al Serkal Avenue (Dubai)Nov 2022 – Sep 2023 · 11 mos

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 · Jay Jay Mills (PVT) Ltd. | ColomboMar 2022 – Sep 2022 · 7 mos
Fashion Designer · Cool Planet (PVT) Ltd. | Colombo Retail ChainSep 2020 – Feb 2020
Junior Fashion Designer · Hirdaramani Knit Center of Operations (RiverIsland | TESCO | GUESS | DKNY) — ColomboNov 2017 – Jan 2020 · 2 yrs 3 mos

Education

BA (Hons) Fashion and Textile Design · Northumbria University2014 – 2017
G.C.S.E. Advanced Level Certificate · Musaeus College2012 – 2014
G.C.S.E. Ordinary Level Certificate · Musaeus College2000 – 2011

Certifications and awards

LVMH Certificate — Creation and Branding (Operations and Supply Chain)2024 – 2026

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