Mr. Shovit Dasgupta

Assistant Professor, Fashion Design (BDes)

Kolkata Campus

Mr. Shovit Dasgupta

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  • shovit.dasgupta@nift.ac.in
  • Coordinator International & Domestic Linkages (CI&DL)
  • Cultural Club
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Mr. Shovit Dasgupta is currently associated as an assistant professor at the department of Fashion Design, NIFT Kolkata. His primary focus as an academician is on design process for fashion, with an interest in the contextual point of view of looking at fashion through the lens of history, society, and culture. He has a graduation in Fashion Design from NIFT Kolkata, and a Masters in Anthropology. He is currently pursuing his PhD from Visvabharati, Santiniketan on Craft Research.
He has been associated with NIFT as an assistant professor since 2022. Prior to that, he was working with the Craft Repository Project of NIFT in 2022. He has also been associated with NIFT in the capacity of Guest Faculty since 2017. He has worked for his own handwoven handcrafted apparel brand, and presented at avenues such as the Lakme Fashion week and Vogue India Fashion Fund.
He has a keen interest in craft and textile research, and has been a member of the Editorial board at Textile: Cloth and Culture by Taylor and Francis (a Q2 journal) and has published in various journals and proceedings including that by Springer Nature and Taylor and Francis.