Four years learning
to build systems.
Now learning to build clothes.
My name is Chaitanya Valluru. I grew up in Hyderabad, India, and spent four years studying Computer Science. I wrote my first line of code at 16. I became genuinely interested in fashion at 21—not as a consumer, but as a student of its systems: how collections are conceived, how silhouettes communicate, how a brand like Maison Margiela can make the absence of branding into its loudest statement.
I am applying to fashion schools in Italy because I believe the next generation of fashion practice will be built by people who can move between code and cloth without friction. I want to be one of those people—and I am willing to start from the very beginning to get there.
My undergraduate work focused on web development, data structures, and backend systems. I built projects in Node.js, Java, and Python. I learned to think about problems architecturally—breaking them into components, understanding dependencies, managing complexity. This kind of thinking, I am discovering, translates surprisingly well to fashion design.
A garment is a system. A collection is an architecture. A brand is a language with grammar rules. I did not know this when I started studying fashion, but it is what keeps me studying.
| HTML / CSS / JavaScript | |
| Python / Java | |
| Figma / Adobe Illustrator | |
| CLO 3D | |
| Fashion History | |
| Garment Construction |
"I am not applying because I am already a fashion designer. I am applying because I am determined to become one—and I have a technical foundation that I believe, with the right education, can become an asset to the field."— Personal Statement, 2025