Rashid Ali

• Design apparel, fashion accessories and home accessories. • Product costing strategy development. • Work with implementation partners as well as with clients to ensure the required results and report accordingly to regional office as well as to the head office. • Worked closely with the wholesale suppliers to ensure the required product is available otherwise search for alternative. • Lead in setting up and coordinate all necessities for local /regional and national exhibitions.

• Product development apparel (M/F). • Fashion accessories development (Bags, belts, shirts and jewelry). • Responsible for finalizing production raw material and quality control. • Outsourcing production in China, Vietnam & Pakistan • Initiator of organic clothing using all vegetable colors, hand woven fabric and hand-embroidery. Built strong relationships with cross functional business partners.

• Design assistance to women’s enterprise groups formed under the project, in order to transfer the skill into contemporary designs and marketable products. • Liaison between the Commonwealth Secretariat design Consultant and women artisans in rural Pakistan, to provide and supervise design briefs to the women and provide quality control services. • Worked for an international exhibition” Threads of Change” organized by Rural Support Programmes Network & Commonwealth Secretariat

• Fashion accessories department initiator. • Designing Fashion accessories, Hand-woven apparel (Male/Female). • Apparel Print design for annual lawn exhibition (female). • Display design for annual Exhibitions all over Pakistan. • Formulation of operation procedures for production flows. • IKAT Apparel Fabrics designing and installation of self-designed looms for mass production. • Outsourcing fashion accessories production in Vietnam, China and also in Pakistan.

• handle sales activities • Customer service • Stock management and inventory • Maintaining over all window dressing • Training and supervision of staff • Maintaining accounts • Merchandising

Fashion retail and brand management Trade fairs, ready-to-wear and couture shows Trend prediction and understanding of Fabric and styling Numeracy and competitor shopping skills Fashion supply chains management

Brand Management Value Chain Management Entrepreneurship Management Sales Management International Marketing Project Management SME-Promotion Tools Data Analysis and Project Management Development Economics

Print Design Weaving Design intervention Apparel design merchandising Computer Graphics Ornamentation Block Printing Screen Printing Recycled Textiles Drawing Craft Documentation Basketry Entrepreneurship History of Textiles History of Costumes Photography Fashion accessories