Dr. Shalini Sood
Sehgal, Professor, NIFT | Principal Investigator & Creative Director,
VisioNxt
Shalini is an
Academician, a Foresight expert, and a Professor at NIFT, New Delhi with 3
decades of experience who is always interested in society’s constantly evolving
mind shifts that impact fashion, lifestyle, and design trends across the world.
She has done her Masters in Fashion Studies (Marketing and Management) from the
London College of Fashion, UK as well as trained at FIT, New York and
NTU, Nottingham, UK. She is the Creative Director for VisioNxt, India’s first
ever AI- EI enabled Trends Insight Lab at NIFT. She has consulted the leather
industry across Delhi, Chennai, and Kolkata successfully creating forecasts for
the exporters and running a ‘Design Centre’. She has also been a part of
various trend forums for brands like Asian paints, and Samsung as well as for
the Ministry of Textiles. Her Doctoral thesis explored the area of trend
percolation of Indian wear in the country.