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Head of Design - Fashion | 20+ yrs across Satya Paul, Reliance Brands & my own label | Embroidery, collection development, production | Hyper-realism artist

About

I've worked in fashion design for over 20 years. Ethnic wear, occasion wear, sarees, menswear, knits, lingerie, kidswear. I've done it from three sides. As a designer, in export houses building for American and European buyers. As a design head, leading collections and teams for established fashion houses. As a founder, running my own label - design, production, vendors, retail partners and selling it, all of it mine to solve. That last part is why design has never been the only half of the job for me. Building my own label meant costing, sourcing, retail partnerships and putting the collection in front of buyers myself. I've since led sales and business development on the product side too — revenue, client relationships, market expansion. So I don't design in isolation from the business. I know what a collection costs to make, and what makes it move. What I actually do: 🧵 Collection development - concept to delivery 🪡 Surface design - embroidery, print, ornamentation 📊 Trend forecasting and R&D 👥 Design team leadership 🏭 Sampling, vendor and production management 💼 Business and sales leadership 🖥️ Illustrator, Photoshop, CAD For the last two years I've also been drawing. 100+ hyper-realism works in pencil and charcoal. It isn't a hobby — it's practice. Precision, texture, depth. The same things surface design runs on. What I'm looking for: A Head of Design role where I own the collection end to end — concept, surface, sampling, vendors, team, calendar, delivery. Where creativity meets strategy.

Location

Gurugram

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Work experience

Buisness Developer at Magppie Wellness Kitchen, Jan 2026 - Present · 9 mos, Delhi, India, Running sales and business development for a wellness-focused modular kitchen brand - and learning the commercial half of the business I spent 20 years designing for. - Own sales strategy, revenue growth and client acquisition across key markets - Build and hold relationships with dealers, architects, designers and end clients - Work with the product side to align offerings with what customers actually buy - Strengthen brand positioning and market presence

Professional Hyper-Realism Artist at Independent Practice, Sep 2024 - Sep 2025 · 1 yr 1 mo, 100+ finished works in pencil and charcoal. - Built a body of 100+ hyper-realism sketches focused on texture, depth and light - Practice that directly sharpens surface design, print development and detailing work - Ongoing personal project in observation and visual storytelling

Founder & Design Head at Sachin Khanna Signature Wear, 2022 - 2023 · 1 yr, New Delhi, My own label. Premium ethnic and occasion wear, built from a blank page to retail shelves. ✨ Set the design direction and delivered full collections season on season ✨ Ran an in-house sampling unit with a team of 10 artisans and tailors ✨ Retailed through Ambawatta One and multi-designer stores across North India ✨ Handled end-to-end operations: design, production, vendor management, costing and retail partnerships

Senior Design Head at Reliance Brands Limited, Jan 2020 - Dec 2022 · 3 yrs, Gurugram, Led embroidered sari collections and the surface language across show garments. - Directed design and presentation of embroidered sari collections - Owned surface ornamentation across fashion show garments - Worked closely with the Creative Head for Satya Paul on show collections and overall design direction

Senior Design Manager at Satya Paul, 2006 - 2021 · 15 yrs, Season after season of collection development and presentation for one of India's most recognisable print houses. - Developed and presented full collections each season - Print, surface and colour development

Education

Fashion Designing & Textile Science, Fashion/Apparel Design, Cambridge School Srinivaspuri

Diploma in French, French Language and Literature, Alliance Française de Delhi

Public links

sachinkhanna.in: https://sachinkhanna.in/