Mandeep Masilamani

• Providing a warm and welcoming customer service, styling insight and product details.
• Visual merchandising - mannequin styling and product displays.

• Product guide for garments and accessories.
• Providing a warm and solution oriented customer service
• Stocked, replenished and organized inventory to keep store merchandise fresh.
• Managing warranty program - Fixing old and well loved garments in store.
• Liasing with repair centre's for sewing and mending damaged clothing for existing customers.

Styling

• NGV Assistant stylist Fashion Now Exhibition 2023
• Interview Magazine Lead stylist Gucci Editorial 2023
• 1st Product Lead stylist and photography Aries FW 23

Creative Direction

• Arcteryx Aus/NZ Autumn Winter Campaign 2022
• Making Pitch decks, moodboards, treatments
• Pre production, fittings, timelines, sourcing suppliers.
• Location scouting, casting, and sourcing garments.
• Coordinating with client, managing production.

For Paris FW Spring Summer 24 collections. I assisted with showroom sales for Adish Studios and Western Hydrodynamic Research. As part of my internship I gained insight into the distribution, collaboration curation and marketing communication from the department heads at Stryk Studio.

My independent project exploring storytelling through garments. My vehicle to collaborate with like minded creatives and empower people through clothing.

• Design and development
• Marketing and creative direction
• Sourcing suppliers,

• In this role I was the assistant to the Global Brand director in the lead up and during Spring/Summer 2020 mens fashion week.
• Assisted with the wholesale processes.
• Coordination with production team to collect samples.
• Assisted with curation of showroom.
• Styling of new collection
• Kept up to date accurate information of the collection detail, accounts and allocation.
• Informed buyers about the new collection, garment details and deliveries.

• Stocktake, warehousing and logistics.
• Visual merchandising, installations and curation.
• Assisting with buying of apparel, eyewear and literature.
• Sourcing of fabric, trims and production partners.

Apprenticed at Nobody Denim for one year prior to beginning formal fashion studies at RMIT.

• Assisted in manufacturing process.
• Specifically oversaw a range of processes from cutting, Bar tack, embroidery and distressing automatic machines.
• Quality assurance of samples and collection.
• Raw material inventory control.
• Assisted with operating cutting machines.

• In this role I created a collection of shirts and bags which were available for retail in flagship stores and Japanese wholesalers.
• Design and development of apparel and bags.
• I learnt the process of designing woven textiles, from dying yarn to operating the handloom weaving machine.
• Pattern making and sewing of samples.
• Hand crafting accessories.
• Visual Merchandising.
• Produced a shoot through casting, location scouting, timelining and concept direction in line with the vision of the brand.