Govind Kumar Singh
{{short description|Indian fashion designer}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Govind Kumar Singh
| nationality = Indian
| image = File:Govind kumar singh designer pictur.jpg
| caption=
| birth_place = Supaul district, Bihar, India
| education = National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT)
| occupation = Fashion designer, assistant professor
| website = {{URL|govindkumarsingh.com/}}
}}
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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.
Early life and career
Singh is from the Supaul district of Bihar.{{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}} He graduated from the National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT) in Bangalore, India. {{as of|2015}}, he was appointed as assistant professor, fashion design, at the NIFT campus in Shillong.{{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 }} In 2012–13 he conducted skills development programmes related to fashion design for the rural women of Assam.{{Cite web| title=28th Annual Report 2013-14 | publisher=National Institute of Fashion Technology | url=http://www.nift.ac.in/Downloads/annualreport_13_14.pdf | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150315012528/http://nift.ac.in/Downloads/annualreport_13_14.pdf | archive-date=2015-03-15}}
Recognition
Singh's label, Rainush, was launched soon after he had success in a television competition.{{cite news |url=https://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 |access-date=2015-08-08}} 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.{{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 }} In 2010 he won the Most Creative and Innovative Design Collection Award{{cite web |url=http://www.schoolofstyling.com/interview3.html |title=Personality of the month — Govind Kumar Singh |publisher=School of Styling |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110419045657/http://www.schoolofstyling.com/interview3.html |archivedate=2011-04-19}} 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.{{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}}
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