Aneri Shah
Fashion, Textile and Print Designer
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Aneri Shah is a New York-based fashion and textile designer whose work centers on print, silhouettes, surface development, and material-led storytelling. Her practice moves fluidly between craft and contemporary fashion, where textiles serve as both structure and narrative. Working across womenswear, menswear, print design, and fabric innovation, she creates refined, tactile surfaces that balance visual impact with technical rigor.
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With a Master's in Textiles from Parsons School of Design, and a Bachelor's in Fashion Design from National Institute of Fashion Technology, India, Aneri brings a refined, concept-led approach to design—treating textiles and prints as the foundation of silhouette, mood, and identity. Aneri develops original CADs, silhouettes, artworks, repeats, embroideries, and engineered placements that move seamlessly from hand exploration to production-ready execution. She works fluently across Adobe Creative Suite, CLO 3D, Procreate, Raspberry AI, and textile CAD systems, enabling a fluid transition from studio experimentation to industry workflows.
Professionally, Aneri has contributed to womenswear, menswear print, knitwear, and textile development for brands and studios including Boston Proper, Retrofête, Jonathan Cohen, ThreeASFOUR, William Storm Studio, Fanny Aliié Studio, Calyx Studio, and Kingsland Printing. She brings hands-on experience across the full design lifecycle, including seasonal concept development, fabric and trim sourcing, BOM creation, PLM management, tech pack coordination, sample tracking, fittings, and vendor communication. She has worked closely with domestic and overseas factories, supporting development approvals, strike-offs, lab dips, and production timelines to ensure accuracy from initial concept through final sample. Across roles, she has collaborated cross-functionally with design, production, merchandising, and sourcing teams in the U.S., China, Taiwan, and India.
Aside from designing, Aneri has authored research papers and showcased thought-provoking sculptural installations, exploring the intricate layers of women’s autonomy within patriarchal frameworks. Guided by conscious material choices and a commitment to social and environmental dialogue, Aneri creates textiles and designs that challenge, question, and reimagine. She continues to explore the transformative potential of hybrid-making—where craft and technology, the personal and the political, converge into a singular visual language.
Aneri’s work has been exhibited at NeoCon with ECONYL® by Aquafil, NYCxDesign, India Art Fair, the Sheila Johnson Design Center, and showcased at the Unraveling Fashion Narratives Symposium. She has been recognized with awards, including the Surface Design Association’s Creative Promise Award and the Outstanding Student Award, as well as multiple honors from Parsons and the Best Design Collection Award from NIFT. Her interviews and features appear in Surface Design Journal, Hand Weavers Guild of America, Canvas Rebel, Fashion Studies Network, ArtsInSquare, and the Arts to Hearts Project’s Art and Woman publication.
Her practice is defined by thoughtful material choices, technical rigor, and a fashion-forward surface language that balances creativity with production intelligence.
