Shama Banu is a very well-known designer in Nepali Fashion Industry as well as Kollywood, the Nepali Film Industry. Shama introduced a new concept of fashion designing in Kollywood when she designed the costumes for the movie ‘Kathmandu’. She was still going to college when she accomplished this big project. Since then, Shama has never had to look back and has earned the distinction of “The Transformer” of the characters’ look. Shama’s designs are powerful enough to express the characters without having them to utter a single word. Despite all the fame and success, Shama is still a very down to earth person as she has always been.
Shama is a simple person who envisioned a dream, had a plan and worked very hard to pursue it. However, she is not done yet as she believes there is much more she wants to achieve. As they say, sky is the limit for someone as talented and willing to succeed as her. Shama belongs to a Muslim family. Her family always wanted her to join some other field of business. However, Shama had some other plans; she was more inclined towards the creative field and wanted to create a niche for herself in that. Hence, Shama followed her passion for the fashion industry and joined Namuna College of Fashion Technology (NCFT) in 2006.
Winner of Creative Designer Award 2011 Shama Banu has been featured in a very popular book 'UNI" written by well-known journalist and writer Aswini Koirala of Kantipur Publications.
Promoting traditional and natural fabrics of Nepal, among young generation and international delegates to uplift these fabrics in national and international market.
Nepal itself is enriched with natural resources, by making full advantage of these natural resources, our ancestors used to make clothes to protect and cover their body. Many types of fabrics are produced it’s origins from nature like: alloo, hemp, nettle, banana, pashmina etc. which are good for health and economic as well. Now days, we rarely see people wearing traditional fabrics. The today’s generations are more fascinated towards western fabric outfits. It has been necessary to aware young generation about the grace of traditional and natural fabrics. In Nepal, there are many people living hand to mouth/ independently by utilizing natural resources in scientific way to produce fabrics. Even though, these fabrics are of good quality, due to lack of appropriate investment opportunity, awareness and rapid urbanization, proper judgment is not being possible in both national and international arena.
The designs according to the taste of young generation are not available in these fabrics. As well as the use of these fabrics in Nepali designers for their creativity are exceptional. Beside these, due to lack of proper mobilization and dissemination, these fabrics are being under noticed among people.
It is the matter of plight that new designs in these fabrics are hard to find in the market and to conserve our tradition, here we assure to present our fusion designs according to the taste of young generation and to uplift natural fabrics trade industry.
