Prasanna Baruah
Associate Dean, School of Fashion

Prasanna Baruah is the Head of Department for Fashion & Textile. He completed his Master's Degree in Fashion & Textiles from Pearl Academy and, later pursued a Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education from Nottingham Trent University, UK. He has more than 20 years of experience of nurturing young creative minds to help them to grow as next generation of creative leaders and thinkers with appropriate industry exposure, opportunities for multi-disciplinary and cross-cultural collaborative learning. He started his career with mass-manufacturing apparel industry and also worked as a Fashion illustrator with renowned fashion designers and apparel brands. He is an expert academician helping every student’s distinctive voice, teaching them how to challenge and define the future of fashion. He teaches design in combination of heritage and radical thinking and blurring the beauty of craftsmanship with ever-emerging technology.