fashion design & portraiture

Aastha
Chandra

fashion designer & portrait artist

A decade designing collections for H&M, Max Fashion and other global retailers — and a lifetime spent drawing, in graphite and ink, the faces that never made it onto a runway. Based in Stockholm, Sweden.

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about

Two crafts, one eye for detail.

Aastha is a fashion designer with over a decade of experience across womenswear, kidswear and menswear, having led seasonal design for global retail brands including H&M, Max Fashion (Landmark Group), Lulu Group and Future Group — developing everything from trend forecasting and colour stories to CAD lines and full technical packs.

A gold medalist from NIFT Gandhinagar and certified in Buying & Merchandising from the London College of Fashion, she moves fluidly between commercial range planning and creative direction. Alongside design work, she's spent just as many years quietly drawing — graphite, charcoal and ink portraits that trade runway polish for raw human detail.

CLO 3D Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator PLM Trend Forecasting Tech Packs & CADs

NIFT Gold Medalist · Buying & Merchandising, London College of Fashion

2025 — Present

Freelance Designer & Illustrator

Womenswear, kidswear, graphic design & digital illustration

2024 — 2025

H&M Group, Stockholm

Fashion Designer — Young Boy, 8–14 years

2019 — 2023

Max Fashion, Landmark Group, Dubai

Senior Designer — Teen Boys, Infants & Disney–WB license

2016 — 2019

Lulu Group, Abu Dhabi

Fashion Designer — Reo Kids/Teens & Womenswear

2016

Aditya Birla Retail (MORE)

Assistant Manager — Womenswear

2013 — 2016

Future Group, Mumbai

Management Trainee → Assistant Manager — Disney Infant & FBB Womenswear

fashion design

Four projects, four stories.

NuBoheme

Womenswear · Summer 26

A contemporary read on bohemianism — sustainability, individuality and a closeness to nature, balanced against vintage and artisanal craft. Raw textures, eclectic prints and flowing silhouettes move across rustic, mariner and chic interpretations of boho.

The Modern Muse

Menswear · AW26

A dialogue between heritage and the present — tactile fabrics, archival silhouettes and a wardrobe built for the global nomad. Equal parts nod to the patriarchs of style and uniform for modern life.

Qattous Ladieswear — Rustic Riviera

Womenswear · Summer 24

A celebration of the Mediterranean coast — organic, free-spirited and drape-led. Carefree elegance, natural grace and an authentic bohemian spirit run through a palette of sun-bleached neutrals and azure blue.

CLOFLIX

Personal Project · Designed & Rendered in CLO 3D

And just for fun — a personal project reimagining favourite films and shows as full fashion collections, each one designed, draped and rendered solo in CLO 3D. From Mad Men's tailored greys to Star Wars' galactic prints for kids, every "title" gets its own directed, produced, cast, styled and dressed collection.