Rumana Chowdhury
Rumana Chowdhury
Native name	Rumana Chowdhury
Born	22 april 1984 Brahmanbaria,Bangladesh
Residence	Dhaka,Bangladesh
Nationality	Bangladeshi
Occupation	Business
Height	5'2
Religion	Islam
Website
https://rumanachowdhury.com/

Biography

Rumana Chowdhury is a fashion designer, entrepreneur and social activist. She is regarded widely as an Empowering & Independent Women Icon. She is one of the very few successful young women entrepreneurs who have taken fashion Industry into a new height.

Early Life

Rumana completed her graduation in Fashion Designing, she started her fashion Brand Warah in 2008. Since inception the fashion brand took a responsible route of using environmentally conscious use of material and embedding unique designs in locally available fabrics which made Warah to become one of the leading lifestyle brands of the country within a very short span of time. Her extensive work with block and Khadi has jumpstarted the once unused material and help revive the dying artisan community. By using moisturized cotton and natural processing, it has popularized the used of locally produced cotton and the impact of the environment. Furthermore, by employing local Artisans it has been successful in ensuring century old trade and knowledge is economically viable. Warah is directly responsible in ensuring at least 4 such artisan family not only have livelihood but also continue with the traditions handed down over generations.

The success of Rumana Chowdhury came complementing her unique design of life style and fashion wear by the sensible use of environment friendly materials and this combination took WARAH and Rumana Chowdhury to a different level of exceptionality in the industry.

In 2012 Rumana participated at the Dhaka Fashion Week and won the Best Designer Award. After that national level success, Rumana and Warah has become regular feature in the fashion trade with extensive exposure in lifestyle media. Since the last one decade, Rumana Kept working with Khadi and kept bringing new trend of fashion successfully which has been widely appreciated in the fashion industry and among the loyal client base of Warah. In 2019, Rumana Chowdhury received City Alo Color’s Platinum Business Women of the Year award which is a highly prestigious award in Bangladesh. Beside her professional work, Rumana is very active in the Junior Chamber International (JCI) network both locally and internationally. She has served in many national and international posts. She was responsible in brining multiple countries into the JCI fold including Timor Leste and Bhutan. She is the first Bangladeshi Chairperson of the prestigious JCI Asia Pacific Development Council (APDC) in charge of developing the JCI network throughout the Asia Pacific region.

The Passion for bringing uniqueness is design, sense of being environmentally responsible, promoting local fabric with proper class & standard, playing active role as a socially responsible citizen and by representing herself truly active in Junior Chamber International, Rumana Chowdhury has become truly an inspiring woman icon for the young designers of this time.