Rafija’s Closet CEO Rafija Sultana, a fashion designer and international certified make-up artist, achieved Bio-Xin Business Leadership Awards 2022 as recognition of a successful woman entrepreneur. Bollywood sensation Shilpa Shetty handed over the award to Rafija and other winners as chief guest on Saturday night at Sheraton Hotel in the capital.
Stars like Nirob, Puja Chery, Dighi and Bubli were among other winners of the Max’s Spoppers presents “Bio-Xin Business Leadership Awards 2022” organized by Mirror magazine.
In her reaction after receiving the award Rafija said, “Winning an award is always a special moment. When I receive an award it gives me more encouragement”.
“I am really very happy to receive the award from Bollywood diva Shilpa Shetty Kundra,” she added.
Rafija Sultana, the youngest child of late retired army officer Abdus Sattar and housewife Mina Akter, is one of the inspiring figures for our youths. Rafija faced many challenges, but she conquered every bump in her life and now flying like a Phoenix.
It’s always been her dream to work in the fashion design sector, even when she was studying at Narayanganj Morgan Girl’s High School, she enjoyed doing designs on clothes. However, her dream was nipped in the bud or that’s what she thought when she got married to Tayabul Islam Salim at a young age.
Still, Rafija didn’t lose hope, she continued making Panjabi as gifts for her husband on different occasions. Seeing those unique dresses, her husband and relatives began to motivate her to start her own brand. Rafija got confident and finally took the step to start her business naming ‘Rafija’s Closet’ in 2019.
Rafija Sultana converted her passion into reality by turning herself as an entrepreneur. She achieved the. She also got the SM Beauty Presents Beauty and Fashion Award 2022. “My passion for designing dresses has led me to start Rafija’s closet,” Rafija said.
The brand gained huge popularity within a very short period of time because of launching unique and high-quality products regularly. It has a collection of the best trendy clothes representing the local tradition at a fair price and has more than 25 thousands customers across the country and thousands of followers online.
After completing graduation from Dhaka University, Rafija attained a fashion designing degree. For her immense success as a woman entrepreneur, she received many national and international awards earlier. Youth Bangla Cultural Award for Junior Entrepreneur in 2020 and BIFA (Bangladesh International fame awards) 2022 were among those.
Beside her clothing brand, Rafija is an international certified makeup artist who completed different courses on bridal makeovers. Her makeup skill is so good that she got awarded many times for her performance, and even got international recognition! Rafija’s Artistry is her another makeover brand that became the 2nd runner up at the MABBAB Mua competition in 2021.
She achieved the Majestic Affair 2021 award as an aspiring makeup artists in the same year. Alongside the national recognitions, Rafija’s Artistry attained Michelle Palma awarded from Brazil in 2021. Rafija was selected as a judge in the Jamir Shwapno makeover workshop 2021.
