Nirupama Singh Dar

Nirupama Singh Dar is a sociologist who works in the areas of fashion, popular culture and feminism. She has done her post graduate studies, Doctorate and Post Doctoral research from Jawaharlal Nehru University. Being the first doctorate on Fashion in India, she pioneered fashion research in India. She also studied Design at National institute of Fashion Technology, New Delhi and has been designing collections for her brand ‘Body Politic’. Her design work has been chronicled by the Indian embassy in Paris in their magazine Nouvelle De L’Inde. Dar is the director of Fashion Research Foundation. She consults on fashion and lectures on Sociology of Fashion and Popular Culture.