Bibi Russell

Bibi Russell (Bengali: বিবি রাসেল) is a Bangladeshi fashion designer and former international model.

Russell was born in 1950 in Chittagong, Bangladesh to Mokhlessur Rahman and Shamsun Nahar.

In the next five years, she worked as a model for different magazines including Vogue, Cosmopolitan and Harper's Bazaar.

[1] Returning to Bangladesh in 1994, Russell opened a fashion house named Bibi Productions, which fused indigenous Bengali cultural elements into her design.

[1] With UNESCO support, Bibi Russell organized her first European fashion show (pioneering event by a South Asian female) in Paris in 1996.