Kasuni Rathnasuriya wins Callow Fashion Entrepreneur Bestowal

On Saturday, 13 November 2010 at the Sri Lanka Design Carnival (SLDF), Kasuni Rathnasuriya was awarded the Young The fad Entrepreneur (YFE) Give 2011.

The YFE 2011 Give is a British Congregation drive offered in partnership with the Sri Lanka Design Festival, that seeks to combatant and sanctify the importance of inventive entrepreneurs in the 25 to 35 age ranking working in the cricket pitch of fashion.

Applicants were tired from a variety of areas of the style airfield including trend textile, accessories oeuvre and draft, vogue elevation, the go drilling, replica chloe totes the fad marketing, and fashion publishing.

In default of the profuse applications received, three candidates were short-listed based first on their written applications and supported nearby additional indication of their entrepreneurial skate and ability.

The short-listed candidates were Ahamed Barry, Sandun De Silva, and Kasuni Rathnasuriya.

Recompense the final check out, the short-listed candidates were settled an break to make a straightforward awarding expanding on their written diligence and addressing questions connected to deal in awareness, epitome and hunger and their desire to mature mutually supportive job with the UK.

The conclusive judging panel in regard to the YFE Endowment 2011 comprised of Kumar Mirchandani, Managing Vice-president Best-liked Rank and garment manufacture ambassador; Rwituja Mookherjee, Employer Artistic Control British Directors India and Sri Lanka; and Tony Reilly, Country Top banana British Council Sri Lanka.

Kumar Mirchandani comments on the judging process, “The barrier was once higher this year; we had 3 massive finalists, any only of which would have been a worthy winner. But eventually it was nigh combining both creativity AND entrepreneurship â€" and that's why Kasuni was our choice.”

Kasuni Ra thnasuriya, who was announced as the champion after the Industrial Fashion Plain at the SLDF, is the founder and exclusive landowner of the classification ‘KUR’. A current women’s brand, which she launched in 2009, ‘KUR’ concerns the sustainable approaches in the the latest thing role such as revitalising the in extremis crafts in Sri Lanka, and recycling approaches.

A Member and a passed finalist of the Chartered Alliance of Marketing, UK, Kasuni is currently employed as a Supermarket Analyst at Brandix Lanka, the separate largest apparel exporter in Sri Lanka with globally renowned eco-friendly upper crust practices. She graduated from the Academy of Design in 2007 and is currently reading for her MBA at the Postgraduate Launch of Conduct, University of Sri Jayewardenepura.

“In 2007, when British directory launched the YFE apportion, I was there. At that time it was decent a dream. But matrix Saturday, my dream came true. This is whole of the uns urpassed things that has in all cases happened to me in my sparkle and my mode vocation so far. I am so exultant to be recognized for the treatment of my entrepreneurship skills and to earn the chance to put my country in the ending program. Scads thanks to the British Panel as a remedy for launching this reward in Sri Lanka.”, says Kasuni.