The Fashion Design Council of Bangladesh (FDCB) is organising FDCB Bangladesh Fashion Week (BFW) 2023 on March 16 and 17 at Aloki Community Centre at Tejgaon-Gulshan Link Road in the capital. As the most prestigious fashion event in the country, Bangladesh Fashion Week 2023 brings spectacular collections from 18 FDCB members and exciting creations featuring 6 visiting designers from India. The show will bring together fashion designers, retailers and stakeholders on one platform. Sustainability and slow fashion are at the heart of this fashion event, the organisers said at a press conference in the capital’s Gulshan Club on Sunday. “Bangladesh Fashion Week (BFW) 2023 is a triumphal celebration of the age-old artisanal dress-making blending modernity and sustainability into the craft. The designers are set to express their thought-provoking and artistic perceptions in each cut and stitch,” FDCB Founder-President Maheen Khan said at the press conference. The theme for Bangladesh Fashion Week 2023 is "Wear clothes that tell a real story of people and the planet."

Basanti Rani, a handloom artist from Sonargaon Upazila of Narayanganj District in Dhaka Division, makes handmade fan from yarns for a living. She lives with her family consisting of her only son, a daughter and a son-in-law. With the crafting assistance of her family members, she runs the family with earnings that come through selling the handmade fans.