Govind Kumar Singh: Difference between revisions

Singh is from the [[Supaul district]] of [[Bihar]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://in.news.yahoo.com/success-encourage-youth-bihar-designer-govind-singh-20110225-024558-216.html | title=My success will encourage youth in Bihar: Designer Govind Singh | author=Indo Asian News Service | publisher=Yahoo! India News | date=25 February 2011 | accessdate=14 May 2011}}</ref> He graduated from the [[National Institute of Fashion Technology]] (NIFT) in [[Bangalore]], India.<ref name="sos"/> {{as of|2015}}, he was appointed as Assistant Professor, Fashion Design, at the NIFT campus in [[Shillong]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nift.ac.in/shillong/academics_fdf.html |title=Academics: B. Des. (Fashion Design) |publisher=National Institute of Fashion Technology |accessdate=2015-05-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150702192649/http://www.nift.ac.in/shillong/academics_fdf.html |archive-date=2 July 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref> In 2012–13 he conducted skills development programmes related to fashion design for the rural women of [[Assam]].<ref>http://www.nift.ac.in/Downloads/annualreport_13_14.pdf {{Bare URL PDF|date=March 2022}}</ref>

Singh's label, Rainush, was launched soon after he had success in a television competition.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.deccanchronicle.com/150722/lifestyle-fashionbeauty/article/catwalk-and-city |work=Deccan Chronicle |title=Catwalk and the City |date=8 August 2015 |first=Namita |last=Gupta |accessdate=2015-08-08}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.afaqs.com/news/company_briefs/index.html?id=47937_Creativity+with+cotton+at+its+best |title=Creativity with cotton at its best |publisher=Cotton Council International (press release) |date=23 February 2011 |accessdate=2011-03-21 |archive-date=5 July 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170705212124/http://www.afaqs.com/news/company_briefs/index.html?id=47937_Creativity+with+cotton+at+its+best |url-status=dead }}</ref> In 2010 he won the Most Creative and Innovative Design Collection Award<ref name="sos">{{cite web |url=http://www.schoolofstyling.com/interview3.html |title=Personality of the month&nbsp;— Govind Kumar Singh |publisher=School of Styling |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110419045657/http://www.schoolofstyling.com/interview3.html |archivedate=2011-04-19}}</ref> in the NIFT Graduation Fashion show. He also won an award for the best ''[[ready-to-wear|prêt-à-porter]]'' garment in the first season of ''Let's Design'', 2009.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.modelsntrends.com/story--%E2%80%98Let%E2%80%99s-Design%E2%80%99-presents-three-promising-designers-450.html |title=''Let's Design'' presents three promising designers |date=9 March 2009 |publisher=Models n Trends |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120325062436/http://www.modelsntrends.com/story--%E2%80%98Let%E2%80%99s-Design%E2%80%99-presents-three-promising-designers-450.html |archivedate=2012-03-25}}</ref>