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ALISHA BHAVIKATTI

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Fashion Designer with 12+ years across women’s western wear—from fast fashion e-commerce to premium retail.

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Fashion Designer with 12+ years across women’s western wear—from fast fashion e-commerce to premium retail. Known for scaling collections (50 → 350 SKUs), improving fit iterations by 15–25%, and driving 5–6× range growth through strong trend forecasting, end-to-end product development, and vendor management.

Experienced in range planning, PLM-based style management (100+ styles), garment construction inputs, and art direction/styling for campaigns and e-commerce shoots. Deeply collaborative across teams to deliver consistent monthly drops and high launch sell-through.

  • 12 years' experience
  • Joined July 2026

Languages

  • EnglishAdvanced
  • HindiAdvanced
  • Marathi (Marāṭhī)Advanced
  • GujaratiAdvanced
  • KannadaAdvanced

Industry experience

  • Retail
  • Consumer Goods
  • Manufacturing
  • Education
  • Professional Services

Work experience· 8 roles

Consultant · Aditya Birla Group (Pantaloons Western Wear)Jan 2026 – Present · 11 mos

Spearheading an activewear launch collection with 25+ technical styles aligned to active wear. Directing development of 60+ styles by translating global forecasts into high-volume commercial capsules. Managing 100+ styles on PLM and coordinating vendors for on-time delivery and fit precision.

Head Designer · Thread Bucket Studio (Zaccai Western Wear)Jun 2023 – May 2025 · 2 yrs

Grew Zaccai.life from 50 to 300–350 SKUs annually, achieving 5–6× range growth in the affordable–premium segment. Reduced fit iterations by 20–25% through tightened workflows to enable consistent monthly drops. Directed 2 campaign and 4 e-commerce shoots, leading styling and end-to-end art direction.

Deputy Design Manager · House of Anita Dongre (AND Western Wear)Jul 2022 – May 2023 · 11 mos

Delivered 3–4 winterwear collections per year with 120 styles/season for women’s wear. Built and scaled evening and workwear categories to 30–40 SKUs per season. Cut garment fit iterations by 15–20% through structured fitting and refinement processes.

Assistant Design Manager · House of Anita Dongre (AND Western Wear)Jun 2018 – Jun 2022 · 4 yrs 1 mo
Sr. Executive — Fashion Design · House of Anita Dongre (AND Western Wear)Apr 2016 – Jun 2018 · 2 yrs 3 mos
Executive — Fashion Design · House of Anita Dongre (AND Western Wear)Dec 2014 – May 2016 · 1 yr 6 mos
Fashion Design Manager · Zest Enterprise (Indian Wear)Nov 2013 – Nov 2014 · 1 yr 1 mo
Design Intern · Aishwarya Design Studio (Indian Wear)Aug 2013 – Oct 2013 · 3 mos

Education

Diploma in Fashion Designing · B.D. Somani Institute of Art and Fashion Technology2012 – 2013
Basic Diploma in Fashion Designing · B.D. Somani Institute of Art and Fashion Technology2011
Diploma in BSc Bio-Medical Science · D.Y. Patil Institute of Biotechnology and Bioinformatics2010 – 2026

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