Crystal Coelho

- Prepped home products, garments, handbags, footwear, jewelry/watches and other fashion accessories that needed to be photographed for the Amazon and My Habit websites.

- Styled garments (Off-figure) for the Amazon and Zappos websites (including baby/kid's wear, sportswear, winter wear, big and tall men's wear, women's lingerie, etc.)
- Trained new associates to assist in the entire process, right from getting products initially prepped to more advanced prep to styling for the photographer.

- Styled handbags, accessories like men's dress shirts, ties/bow ties, kids socks, gloves, woolen hats, etc. Styled jewelry and watches.
- Assisted in prepping garments to be photographed off-figure.
- Prepared Guidelines with images for training new associates for my manager.

- Taught fashion design subjects like illustration, embroidery and draping.
- Guided students to design collections for the annual fashion show.

- Taught spoken and written English from Grade 2 – 10.
- Designed the Art & Craft Curriculum for Kindergarten to Grade 10.
- Organized and accompanied field trips, trekking and camping trips and various inter-school competitions.
- Held workshops for various extra-curricular activities such as art, drama, debates, music, elocution, creative writing, etc.

- Assisted in building sustainable livelihoods for underprivileged women & youth, training them to make hand-stitched and embroidered bags, folders and other office stationary, home décor products, etc and selling the finished products at fairs & exhibitions in India.
- Taught children and youth how to read & write English and do basic math.

- Designed initial clothing samples for the U.S.A., U.K., Middle East and European export market. Sourced fabrics (from India and China) for clothing & accessories like scarves, ties, socks, belts, cufflinks, etc, planned and designed Spring/Summer & Autumn/Winter ranges and sample collections for clients to review and select from based on international fashion forecasts and trade fairs in Europe.
- Coordinated and executed export orders for international brands like Guess, Quiksilver, Marks & Spencer, River Island, Topman, Topshop, Next Men's wear/Next Boys wear, Paul Smith and H&M.
- Designed for the in-house club wear brand – "Zod!" and their custom-made Régalé shirts.
- Supervised product development from design to pre-production.

- Designed high fashion/couture, heavy embroidered/embellished clothing for leading international fashion design brands like Alexander McQueen, Ralph Lauren, Chloé, Derek Lam, Michael Kors, Vera Wang, Narsico Rodriguez, etc
- Designed high fashion embroidered accessories like boot dazzlers and shoe straps for Manolo Blahnik and elaborate neck pieces, bracelets and head accessories for other European designers.
- Designed embroidered home furnishings for Jed Johnson.
- Handled the entire process right from initial sample development to production and shipping.

- Designed western wear for the AND brand, Indo-western wear for the AND EAST brand and Indian ethnic wear for the ANITA DONGRE designer brand.
- Handled everything from sample development to final production and distribution to large format stores across India.
- Designed window displays for Anita Dongre stores in Mumbai city.
- Styled (models) for photo shoots and fashion shows.