Bhavana is a textile designer driven by a strong commitment to innovative ideas and creative solutions. Bhavana designs with a purpose, striving for functional, multi-purpose designs that minimize negative environmental impact of the fashion industry. While navigating the latest trends and staying up to date, she also envisions and explores ways of incorporating traditional alongside modern techniques, to create a space in design where the beauty of both times can co exist.
Through her diploma in Apparel Design and Development from NIFT, Bhavana entered the world of garment design and learned the importance of every phase of the design process, from initial ideation sketches and creation of mood boards to finalizing the scale of design, pattern making, material choice, sewing and garment construction. She learned Computer aided design (Auto CAD) tools and understood the process for designs to be created, developed and produced.
During her Bachelors in Textile design from OCAD University, Bhavana developed and mastered her design skills in Pattern making, Sewing, Garment construction, Weaving, Knitting, Embroidery as well as gained proficiency in design software Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, and Rhino 3D. Bhavana also took courses in Jewelry design as the jewelry and textile industry work in collaboration in the fashion sphere. The skills she garnered in jewelry alongside textile design enable her to have a holistic approach.
Amidst COVID 19 virtual studies, Bhavana partook in an online exhibition 'Sustainable Interventions' to pursue her sustainability passions alongside study. She developed a project proposing the repurposing of old denim jeans to craft new products such as handbags, pouches and wristwatch straps! The project was displayed on the OCADU website for the length of the online exhibition.
In her Thesis collection, 'Kept', Bhavana showcases her passion for garment design with the use of traditional motifs in modern day knitwear. The intention of combining traditional elegance with modern comfort was achieved through careful considerations, and use of 3D design to visualize the final look and feel of the knit collection. By means of punch card design, and blocking techniques, the knitwear evolved into being.
Most recently, Bhavana has enhanced her 3D rendering skills in the 3D design software CLO3D. Clo3D allows creation of digital 3D models of garments, providing a virtual view of how the final piece will look on a body. This helps visualize proportions, fit, and fabric behavior in a way that sketches or prototypes cannot. It also helps Bhavana to showcase how her design will move and fit in different poses. As she gains expertise in 3D design, Bhavana refines her creative ideas digitally, and makes adjustments digitally, reducing the need to create multiple prototypes, and design samples. Saving time, money, and resources. By way of 3D design, Bhavana finds her purpose of adopting sustainability in design actively fulfilled.
