Vinayak Madne

Head of the Department

I’m Fashion Designer and a Fashion Stylist at the same time. I’ve pursued my graduation in Fashion Design and Master’s from NMIMS. I’ve been working in the Fashion industry for the past 6 years. I’ve worked as a celebrity Stylist, Editorial Stylist for celebrities and a Fashion show stylish at Times Fashion week.
I’ve launched my own collection at the Ultimate Fashion runway & Mrs Navi Mumbai beauty pageant.

Mayur Amilkanthwar

Academic Head

He is a software engineer, who pursued Interior Designing as his career. Driven by immense passion for the field he has over five years of experience in commercial and residential site projects.

Mayur also decided to share his knowledge with a new generation of interior designers by starting to teach in the field. He is a staunch believer of how theoretical and practical knowledge go hand in hand. He has an academic experience of 9 years and has taught more than 3000 students till date. His outlook towards the field of education is about creating confident, bold and young designers who stand out and create breath-taking projects.

He is also the academic head of our institution for who’s skills of management and teamwork we absolutely appreciate.

Sonal Thorat

Assistant Academic Head of the Department

Sonal is the former Head Of The Department of Fashion. Who is now the Assistant Head of the Academics. Sonal comes with over 9+ years of experience working as a creative Fashion Designer and Mentor. She has always had a passion towards fashion. Her specialization lies in being an expert in Computer softwares for Fashion design like Corel Draw, Photoshop etc. Sonal is hardworking and enjoys managing her students and faculties along with planning for photoshoot events and fashion shows.

Megha Patil

A Fashion Designer and Fashion Stylist. An alumni of London College of Fashion

She has more than a decade of industry experience internationally. Megha operates from The United States as a core team member of INSD Pune.

She has been in the Fashion and Fashion industry since the past 13 years. She has worked with international brands like Natuzzi Italia, Burberry London, SabTV, to name a few and also is an Entrepreneur. She’s a personal stylist in the United States. Her passion for Styling since childhood helps her embrace the art and deliver it in a very practical manner.

Bharat Gupta

Bharat is the official stylist for the Femina Miss India, Miss Diva, Miss India Universe and Mr. India pageants. He has styled the pageants, and the winners for the events, red carpet appearances and shows.

Bharat has styled celebrities including Norah Fatehi, Warina Hussain, Manasi Scott, Shiamak Davar, Kailash Kher, Mandana Karimi, Shirley Setia, Sunil Grover, Taapsee Pannu, Waluscha Desouza, Aksharaa Haasan, Miniisha Lamba amongst many others.

Bharat styled the entire wardrobe for Mr. India Prathamesh Maulingkar for his international pageant Mr. Supranational 2018 in Poland. Prathamesh was the first Asian and Indian to win this pageant and is the reigning winner currently. He styled the wardrobe for Varun Verma, Mr. Supranational 2019 who went on to win the title of Mr. Supranational Asia. He also styled the wardrobe for Mr. India World 2010 Vishnu Raj Menon and the Asia and India’s first Mr. World Rohit Khandelwal.

Megha Panchal

Megha moved to Pune to pursue her degree in fashion designing from School Of Fashion Technology (S.O.F.T.). After graduation worked in the industry for 1.5 year. Started sustainable & eco-friendly label in partnership in 2019 for men & women. Styled celebrities like rupali ganguly etc. She started with her new sustainable label called OFAFO India, she is an Entrepreneur & a Mentor. She believes that everyone in fashion industry should learn and incorporate sustainability in their practices.

Karan Waghmare

I’m Karan Waghmare, I’ve Completed my Education in Fashion Design. I’ve been working as a Fashion Designer for the past 6 years. I’ve worked at as Celebrity Designer and been a part of several Pageant Shows. Recently I designed and created a collection for Nagarkar Jeweller’s in collaboration Amruta Khanvilkar and Chandu kaka Saraf.

Rahul Bhuyarkar

Rahul Bhuyarkar,is basically an MBA with specialisation into International Business with over 20 years experience,in Fashion ,Textile and Teaching,he started his career with a Prominent Textile Mill ,by virtue of  keen interest  in Textile and Clothing, he got himself formally trained into Fashion from one of the Premier Institutes in India and started his own label in Pune,a desire to share his experience and knowledge he has earned over the years into Fashion and clothing business inspired him to get into Mentoring the students who aspire to become Fashion Designers.