SANDHYA SRINIVASAN
Associate Professor, School of Fashion (SOF), Bengaluru

Alumni of NIFT Delhi, Sandhya Srinivasan won awards for her graduate collection in 2004 and has also been judged runner-up in Lakme Fashion House, a show judged by Donatella Versace and Abu Jani and Sandeep Khosla.

A multilingual professional draper and pattern maker, Sandhya has worked with many designers at the beginning of her career, like Sandy Starkman and Tarun Tahiliani, to name a few. She moved on to teach fashion in many countries in South East Asia, namely China, Vietnam, and Cambodia. She has been involved in many art residencies and has opened her homestay and art residency in the Himalayas. She has undertaken several designs and research projects in pattern generation, curriculum development, mural paintings, lingerie, and craft development, in the course of her 18 years of experience.