Rohit Bal to mentor fashion students at JD Institute

The JD Institute of Fashion Technology, a leading name in design education,

has signed up designer Rohit Bal as a 'mentor' for student designers at the institute in New Delhi. With an aim to share his expertise, Rohit Bal is taking his years of experience in the field of design to JD Institute.

Rohit Bal is one of India's finest designers and is acclaimed worldwide for his traditional yet contemporary aesthetics and his client list includes a host of beauties like Cindy Crawford, Uma Thurman, Pamela Anderson to name a few. It is his unique creative vision for which the influential Time Magazine has profiled him as the ‘Master of Fabric and Fantasy’.

He has also been associated with brands like Mitsubishi, Chivas, Zippo, Linen Club, Biba, Jabong, Rolls Royce and Nebula. With his flagship stores in Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Ahmedabad, Kolkata and Chennai, Bal is one of India's most celebrated designers of the decade. The ace designer will be actively involved with the academics and will work closely with the students for their final collection.

Apart from mentoring, the fashion expert would select student designers on the basis of talent, vision, hard work and creativity and create a core group to present the collections at the JD Annual Design Awards in New Delhi.