Qasim
Anwar

Designer Creative Consultant Styling & Costuming Art Direction Filmmaker Storyteller

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About

Bridging the East
and the West

Pakistani American designer, filmmaker, and storyteller with a focus on bringing diversified and eclectic visual language to film and beyond. From designing custom clothing pieces to full world building, I am a multidisciplinary artist with deep connections to design studios in my hometown of Lahore, Pakistan.

Bridging gaps between the East and the West, I bring projects to life from pitch deck to complete fruition — music videos, tour looks, editorials, commercials, and narrative film. My work lives at the intersection of cultural heritage, cinematic storytelling, and contemporary fashion.

I call myself a fashion archaeologist — a designer deeply engaged with questions of consciousness, excavating ancient symbols, sacred geometries, and visual languages that predate modernity. Each garment is a site of inquiry: a piece infused with the symbolic vocabulary of old civilizations, reconstructed for the living body.

American Bollywood Young the Giant · Visual Album · 2022–2023

Young the Giant · Visual Album · 2022–2023

American
Bollywood

Role
Styling · Costume Design
Production Design · Creative Consultant

Director
Tanmay Chowdhary

A four-act visual album telling the immigrant story of lead singer Sameer Gadhia's family from India to America — inspired by the Mahabharata and the false promise of the American Dream. Styling, costuming, and production design across all four acts.

Origins

Styling · Costume Design · Production Design

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Exile — "My Way"

Styling · Creative Consultant

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Battle — "Dollar $tore"

Styling · Costume Design · Creative Consultant

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Denouement — "Otherside"

Styling · Costume Design

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Tour Look Young the Giant · Styling · Custom Design

Young the Giant · Tour & Editorial · 2022–2023

American Bollywood
Tour Look

Role
Styling · Custom Design · Sourcing

Inspiration
Pakistani 70s Disco · Bollywood Aesthetics

Vallis Alps Styling · Costume Design · Art Direction

Vallis Alps · Music Videos

Vallis
Alps

Role
Styling · Costume Design
Art Direction · Creative Consultant

"Set it Off, Set it Right"

Styling · Costume Design

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"Higher Than This"

Art Direction · Creative Consultant · Styling · Costume Design

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Enchantress Anusha Savi · Music Video · Styling

Anusha Savi · Music Video

Enchantress

Role
Styling · Production Design

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Witness Short Film · 2024 · Costume Design

Short Film · 2024

Witness

Role
Costume Design

Directors
Radha Mehta & Saif Jaan

Starring
Faran Tahir

Odyssey Morni · Web Series · Writer · Stylist

Morni · Web Series · 2023

Odyssey

Role
Writer · Stylist

A visual story exploring identity, belonging, and memory — told through fashion, film, and language.

Chapters

I — The Garden of Pomegranate / انار کا باغ
II — Mirror, Mirror on the Tree / آئینہ آئینہ، درخت پر
III — Queen of Hearts / دلوں کی ملکہ
IV — Life is a Game of Dice / زندگی پانسوں کا کھیل
V — War of the East / مشرق کی جنگ
VI — They Sang of the Great War / انہوں نے عظیم جنگ کے گیت گائے
VII — Sage Under the Rock / پتھر کے نیچے دانا
VIII — The Red Soil / سرخ مٹی
IX — The Origin Story / آغاز کی کہانی

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Custom Clothing Fashion Archaeology · Garments & Bespoke Design

Fashion Archaeology · Custom Design

Garments &
Custom Clothing

Role
Designer · Maker

Studios
Lahore · Los Angeles

Each piece is an excavation — ancient symbols, sacred geometries, and forgotten visual languages revived in handcrafted form. The eye. The spiral. The dragon. The crest. Old consciousness, worn on the body.

The Eye