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Bibi becomes honorary fellow of London College of Fashion |
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 Bibi Russel was the first woman from Bangladesh to study at the London College of Fashion. When she graduated in 1975 she modeled her own graduation show, she was immediately offered modelling assignments with Yves Saint Laurent, Karl Lagerfeld and Giorgio Armani and appeared in Vogue, Haper's Bazaar and Cosmopolitan. From these beginnings she established herself as one of the world's leading models. In 1990 she returned to Dhaka to realise a long held ambition to build an international reputation for locally crafted textiles by promoting traditional Bangladeshi fabrics, Khadi and Jamdani. In recent years she has worked in Europe and Bangladesh using culture and creativity of her fashion designs to elevate the image of Bangladesh. Her work has revived the hand loom weaving industry in Bangladesh. Operating under the slogan of Fashion for Development she has demonstrated how local weavers and artisans can use their skills to achieve economic stability. Bibi Productions has provided work for 35,000 weavers and with the support of UNESCO has staged three major shows in Europe. The most recent of these was Stars of Bangladesh which was presented jointly with the British Fashion Council during London Fashion Week in September 1998. Bibi Russell became a Fellow of the London Institute in 1999
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