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Jun Chia
Title:
Lecturer
Nationality:
Singaporean
Qualification:
Degree in Fashion Design- London College of Fashion. Diploma in Fashion Design-Lasalle Sia (SIngapore)
Expertise:
Conceptual design and pattern making
Brief Introduction:
During my studies in London, I did my internship with Katarzyna
Szczotarska as a assistant pattern cutter and Lisa Hljem as a assistant
designer.
I was the finalist of the UK Mela Young Designer 2005.
After my graduation, I was the Assistant Designer for Ben Maher label and Designer for the London Lincoln House Hotel.
Fatima Xu
Title:
Lecturer
Nationality:
Chinese
Qualification:
Zhejiang Silk Engineering Institute, Clothing Department
Image & Fashion Design, China Textile University in Shanghai
Expertise:
Pattern Draping, Pattern Making & Sewing
Fatima has many years of experiences in pattern making. She is familiar with both Chinese and Western pattern making. She worked in La Vie, Shanghai as a Pattern Designer, Chief Pattern Maker with Yang Qing Qing Image Design, Shanghai and a Garment Quality Control Manager at Hua Wei Silk Garment Import Export. Fatima also traveled extensively in Asia, Europe and Africa studying African Garments and Arts in Niger, West Africa.
Alen Poropat
Title:
F.D. Lecturer
Nationality:
Croatian
Qualification:
Bretton Hall College, Leeds University, UK
BA (Hons) Fashion 1994-1997
Expertise:
Women''s wear design, design research and development
Brief Introduction:
During the college he was a participant of Brother Cup Competition for Designers held in Bejing in 1997
Since graduation Alen has worked at fashion houses in Croatia (Varteks)
and UK (Franka Couture), where he was for both an assistant designer.
For the following years he was gaining experience in working at small
fashion studios in London at Idol and Roland Klein. He has developed
skills in the trade and marketing as well as in fashion industry. One
of his work posts was lecturing at Italian Fashion Institute Callegari.
Later works was freelance designing clothes for small enterprises and
accessory design, made a few escapes into field of purchasing and
marketing orientated industry.
May Zhu
Title:
Lecturer
Nationality:
Chinese
Qualification:
Master Degree in Fashion Institute of DHU
Expertise:
Fashion design, Teaching
May has four years teaching experience in Design School, Fashion & Textile School of Wu Xi Light Industry Univ. (Now named JiangNan Univ.) As a Brand marketing planner in Shanghai Five Ring Fashion Co. Ltd; A member in QA department in AMC; a merchandiser in OTTO. May is currently pursing a PHD degree ( Fashion Design) with the Dong Hua University.
Yan Cui
Title:
Lecturer
Nationality:
Chinese
Qualification:
Master of Fine Arts
Expertise:
Fashion design, Product Materials and Fashion Merchandising
Brief Introduction:
Throughout her experience in Fashion Design area, IYan has completed three TV drama''s costume designs, and developed two lines of woman''s wear: ICOK and T-PARTS. Yan has worked in Mulberry Inc in the United States before returning to Shanghai.
Yan has yearn to be a fashion design lecturer and Raffles Design Institute provided her with the opportunity to combine two cultures and design conceptions together and impart to our students here.
Jeremy Wee
Title:
Fashion Design Lecturer
Nationality:
Singaporean
Qualification:
Bachelors of Arts in Fashion Design
With First Class Honours
BTEC National Diploma and BTEC / SQA Higher National Diploma
Diploma in Apparel Design and Merchandising
2004 BS in Industrial Design, fashion specialization, Politecnico of Milan
Expertise:
Men''s and women''s wear, Costume Design, Fashion Illustration, Design
Conceptualization and Research, Professional Presentation, Pattern
Making and Business Development.
Brief Introduction:
Jeremy has3 years
experience in design, marketing, business development and sales within
the fashion apparel industry and oneand half year experience in
business development consultancy and environmental advisory work with
large international blue-chip companies, local government departments
and councils to charities and non-profits organization.
Jeremy is a fashion desiger with individualistic illustration and artistic eye for art and design in all fields.
His passion includes problem solving, improving business and customer
processes and systems, analyzing key requirements, trends and markets
to forecast/predict new ideas to increase business marketability and
product development
Edward Moura
Title:
Lecturer
Nationality:
Portuguese
Qualification:
Master Degree
Expertise:
Fashion Design, 3D Draping, Drafting, Visual software''s skills, and Drawing.
Brief Introduction:
Edward is a renowned
Fashion Designer in Portugal . He holds with Masters in Fashion Design.
Edward has five years experience creating collections for ladies and
home decoration. His vast experiences include theatrical costume design
and production,. couture and ready to wear markets.
Edward is also experienced in retail merchandising.
Josefina Ricciardi
Title:
Lecturer
Nationality:
Argentinean
Qualification:
BA in Fashion Design,
University of Buenos Aires
Expertise:
Fashion design (children wear and women wear, textile, styling, jewellery)
Josefina has experience in designing textiles, women and children''s fashion and has worked as a stylist previously. She was involved in textile-design and prints for different brands she worked for, as well as for their own collections. In addition, she has participated in diverse international trades show exhibitions. Josefina also worked as a freelance stylist, analyzing and providing style for different campaigns and fashion shows, and has established an accessory design and manufacturing firm where she was the main designer and created unique and unconventional jewellery.
Julia Shepitko
Title:
Lecturer
Nationality:
Ukrainian/ Russian
Qualification:
MA in fashion design
Academy of Arts, L''viv,Ukraine. MA in fashion design, June 2003
Expertise:
Fashion Design Development
Brief Introduction:
Julia graduated from L’viv Academy of Arts, Ukraine
She received a Master degree in fashion design (6 years full time) with a focus on: woman’s wear
After graduation she carried on her education in England and France., where she completed the courses at Central Saint Martins and Paris American Academy. fter her study she moved to Bucharest, Romania and worked as an assistant designer for the well known Romanian designer Doina Levinza.
After one year she moved to Moscow where she has got a job as a fashion designer in a leading Russian brand called Bos Bison. She has also designed for the Russian fashion week. Julia worked as a fashion journalist for two Fashion editions in Russia such as: “Fashion industry” and “International Textiles” before joining Raffles Design Institute in 2006.
Laurent Favre-Victoire
Title:
Lecturer
Nationality:
French
Qualification:
Business School ( Pigier ), Two years course with ESMOD
Expertise:
Draping, Drafting, Sewing Techniques, Clothing Buying, Styling for magazines
Brief Introduction:
A costume designer for the Club Mediterranee in Tunisia and Turks & Caicos Islands (British West Indies) L''Eclaireur company who sell designer such as Prada, Ann Demeulemester, Helmut Lang, Martin Margiela?€?.. Barbara Bui company (Franco-Vietnamese designer), Cortina Watch Pte Ltd in Singapore.
Hiro T.
Title:
Lecturer
Nationality:
Singapore/Japanese
Qualification:
Distinction, Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts
Honors, Bunka Fashion Institute/Tokyo
Expertise:
Fashion Design. 3D Draping, Drafting and Sewing.
Brief Introduction:
Hiro was trained in the
area of fine arts. After winning a series of international fashion
awards in Singapore and Tokyo, he was selected to be the recipient of
the Arts and Culture Scholarship jointly awarded by the government of
Singapore and Japan. In Tokyo, he graduated with Honors in Fashion
Design from the Bunka Fashion Institute in Japan. Hiro then moved to
Singapore to manage a bridal couture house before joining House of
Frasier in London as their garment technician. Hiro has been a
full-time Fashion Design lecturer in RDI since 2003. Hiro is a
versatile and confident to undertake classes from fashion designing to
technical production modules in garment construction.
Dilip Kumar Mothiram
Title:
Lecturer
Nationality:
South African
Qualification:
3 year Diploma in Fashion, NHD in Education,CAD(Durban University of Technology)
Expertise:
Fashion Design
Brief Introduction:
Dilip graduated with
Bachelor Of fashion design in 1991 from DUT in South Africa. Dilip
worked in the fashion industry for seven and half years and his forte
lies in lingerie design.. Dilip’s experiences include menwear''s and
boy''s sportswear and ladies casual wear., Dilip brought with him an
extensive knowledge of I fashion – chain –stores management and
branding.
Dilip moved on to lecture in a private fashion college in South
Africa, which was affiliated with the Nottingham Trent university(UK)
for 3 years.
and Walter Sisulu University before joining Raffles Design Institute.
Tanya Dove
Title:
Lecturer
Nationality:
UK
Qualification:
Central Saint Martins College Of Art And Design.
BA HONS In Design
London College Of Fashion
Expertise:
Fashion Draping, Drafting and Sewing
Brief Introduction:
Tanya was the winner of the
Royal Society of Arts designer of the year award in 1996. After
graduation, she worked from an Assistant Designer in 1997 to being the
Director of her own label, tanyadove. Throughout these years, Tanya
accumulated vast knowledge and valuable experiences in the fashion
industry.
Tanya has good knowledge of the Chinese fashion market having worked in Hong Kong as the Fashion Designer for Silvereed International.
Tanya was one of the Judges For the Haining Cup Design Competition in 2008
Name:Baiba Ladiga
Title: F.D. Lecturer
Nationality: Latvian
Academic Qualification:
1998-2004: MA in fashion design, Latvian Academy of Arts, one year studied Art pedagogy, Riga, Latvia
1995-1997: College of Applied Arts specialized in Costume and Design, Jelgava, Latvia
1989-1997: Drawing and painting courses
Brief Introduction:
Baiba Ladiga work experience includes fashion designer forcompanies in Latvia and Italy, stylist and fashion editor for fashion magazines like Cosmopolitan Latvia etc., TV programme host, teacher for the private fashion design school.
She has participated with her fashion collections in many events and fashion shows like European Fashion design Trade mission in Tokyo, Japan; Iceland fashion week; You can Cannon” event”, Prague, Chech Republic.
Ladiga was selected and won prizes at many international fashion design contests like Mittelmoda MarediModa, Italy; “China cup”, Shanghai, China; ”Baltic fashion award”, Heringsdorf, Germany; ”Styl Kabo”, Brno, Chech Republic; ?The New Name in Fashion”, organized by “Baltic Fashion Federation” etc.
Expertise: Womenswear design (including swimmwear and lingery) fashion illustration, styling for the magazines, fashion journalism
Vanessa Northway
Title:
Assist ant program Director
Nationality:
British
Qualification:
B.A (hons) Degree in Fashion Design with Business
Expertise:
Fashion Design & Promotion
Brief Introduction:
After Graduating and
receiving a B.A (Hons) Degree in Fashion Design with Business Vanessa
worked in London for many high street retailers and guided them with
colour predictions, styles & trends for the forthcoming season and
developing/designing ranges.
Vanessa joined University Of Southamption as a Fashion Design Lecturer briefly before moving to Taiwan.
In 1999, Vanessa moved to Taiwan and worked as a Senior fashion designer for a major manufacturer supplying to British & American Retail outlets. She was in charge of a design team, liasing with sales team & department heads to develop samples and create ranges for the customer(s).
Vanessa has vast experience in Commercial Design, International
Manufacturing & Business Orientation, from research stage through
to design and end product. During her career, She enjoyed most working
for Manufacturers, Retailers, Designers & Wholesale companies,
creating & developing for Womenswear, Menswear & Childrenswear.
Vanessa is the Assistant Program Director Of the Fashion design
Department, where she is able to combine her diverse Fashion Career
experience her passion for teaching.
Eda Dorman
Title:
Program Director
Nationality:
Turkey
Qualification:
Diploma in Fashion Design.
Bachelor degree in Management and Administrative Sciences.
Expertise:
Costume design
Brief Introduction:
Eda entered the fashion
design scene in Turkey by designing theatrical costumes at Kenter
Theatre in Istanbul and launched her label Atelier E. in Turkey. She
moved to Canada where she completed her Fashion Design Degree at
Richard Robinson Ecole De La Mode. She has worked for a Muppet
Children''s a Turkish based Children''s wear manufacturing company at
their North America liaison office. After long experience in fashion
practice in 2001, she joined Raffles Design Institute at Shanghai as
Lecturer. Since 2005 she is the Program Director of the Fashion Design
Department At Raffles Design Institute involving number of industry
collaborations with BASF, Three Gun, MAC, Sephora and Toni&Guy,
invited to be a judge at China Cup by Shanghai Garment Association and
presented seminars organized by Shanghai Garment Association.
(Manufacturing Society to Creative Society; importance of Design
Education).Her students enjoyed success in recent year in different
competitions like AYDC, MIFA, China CUP. She is devoted to be part of
the design education society and nurture her students and enhance their
creative skills by giving them the right platform to improve their
technical abilities and creative thinking.
