DHAKA: The quirky and talented designer Bibi Russell is in Bangalore of India to participate in the Karnataka Fashion Week Bangalore 2014.

Bibi was born in Chittagong, Bangladesh and grew up in Dhaka studying in Kamrunnessa Govt. Girls` High School.

Later she earned a graduate degree in fashion from London College of Fashion in 1975. In the next five years, she worked as a model for different magazines including Vogue, Cosmopolitan and Harper`s Bazaar.

She also worked as a fashion model in fashion shows until 1994, working with Yves Saint Laurent, Kenzo, Karl Lagerfeld and Giorgio Armani.

Having returned to Bangladesh in 1994, Bibi opened Bibi Productions, a fashion house, fusing indigenous Bengali cultural elements into her line. As of 2004, her company employed 35,000 weavers in rural Bangladesh.

With assistance from UNESCO, Bibi organized her first European fashion show in Paris in 1996. She also organized fashion show, The Colours of Bangladesh, in Spain in 1997.

Source:TOI

BDST: 1752 HRS, JAN 23, 2014