Fashion designer Rohit Bal suffers heart attack

Renowned fashion designer Rohit Bal suffered a heart attack on Tuesday morning and is currently under medical care at a hospital in Gurgaon, a source close to him said.

The 42-year-old designer was initially rushed to Aashlok Hospital in the national capital and was later shifted to Gurgaon-based Medanta Medicity in the evening, where he is admitted under cardiovascular and cardiothoracic surgeon Dr Naresh Trehan.
  
Bal, fondly called 'Gudda' in the fashion fraternity hails from Kashmir and is one of India's best known fashion designers. A graduate of St Stephen's college, he learnt fashion designing at NIFT, Delhi.

His clients include international celebrities like Uma Thurman, Cindy Crawford, Pamela Anderson, Naomi Campbell and Anna Kournikova.