Govind Kumar Singh | |
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Born | Supaul district, Bihar, India |
Nationality | Indian |
Education | National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT) |
Occupation(s) | Fashion designer, assistant professor |
Website | govindkumarsingh |
Govind Kumar Singh is an Indian fashion designer. He has appeared in two series of Let's Design , a television reality show, on Zoom and won the 2011 series.
Singh is from the Supaul district of Bihar. [1] He graduated from the National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT) in Bangalore, India. [2] As of 2015 [update] , he was appointed as assistant professor, fashion design, at the NIFT campus in Shillong. [3] In 2012–13 he conducted skills development programmes related to fashion design for the rural women of Assam. [4]
Singh's label, Rainush, was launched soon after he had success in a television competition. [5] He won the reality-based competition Let's Design in 2011. As with all the other competitors in the series, he had to work with cotton to design an haute couture collection. [6] In 2010 he won the Most Creative and Innovative Design Collection Award [2] in the NIFT Graduation Fashion show. He also won an award for the best prêt-à-porter garment in the first season of Let's Design, 2009. [7]
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