Ramzi at Bridal Fair '07 today!

by Prasad Abu Bakr

Ramzi Rahaman is due to wrap-up the 'Bridal Fair 2007' Which has been happening for the past four days at the Sri Lanka Exhibition and Convention Center this evening, with a grand presentation of his latest collection showing his newest designs for brides this season. The collection will showcase Ramzis creative styles for not only for the brides but also for the rest of the bridal retinue. The show begins at 6 p.m.

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Ramzi has been in this trade since hair dressing was nothing much to talk about here in Sri Lanka, in fact it was mostly foreign diplomats wives that actually patronised at the ti me Ramzi started off as a la d with sissors to snap off hair with at his finger tips, with actually no proper address to operate from. That was way back in the early seventees probably.

The story of Ramzi Rahaman is a simple event that can be made in to a colossal happening but the need to do that one needs a lot of people that love and care for you not by weaving a false facade but by seeing the true Ramzi, not the Hair dresser and Bridal dresser alone but being able to look beyond Ramzi of today. His colourful

 past is what made that little boy travel an arduous journey all the way to the top.

Ramzi's flare for his current profession did not materialise like a flash in the pan, it was a lot of hard work and sacrifice but there was a one good ingredient that helped Ramzi achieve what he has achieved today, his great love for art.

In fact if one broad base his career and look for answers as to why he became a sensational hair dresser of this era one would find that it was his great inclination towards art, his ability to draw the various hair styles that haunted his imagination is what made him in to a creative and most sought after hair dresser and bridal designer of our country.

In parallel to his obsession with art he also watched his aunts doing hairstyles on each other, this was probably the most fascinating period in the young creative mans life. The need to explore was more than the need to seek the future. So at a very young age, while building up a reputation as a creative hair stylist Ramzi felt the need to realize the base to what was to become his life long passion, hairdressing.

After much experimenting and error Ramzi Rahaman opened his first ever Hair Dressing salon in the city. Dr. and Mrs Seevali Rathwatte and their daughter Lakmini Wijewardena were the chief guests.

That was an head start for somebody who was not willing to take a back seat. He drove himself through to the point of proving his metal in his chosen field. Since then The Ramzi Rahaman Salon has dressed not only his many cliental from all walks of life but people who belonged to a certain amount of recognition within that network.

Miss Universe 1997 Brook lee, Mrs. World 1984 Rosy Senanayake and actress Malini Fonseka has been some of his reputed clients. In fact so regarded is his work that he has remained hair and beauty consultant the Former President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaranatunge and her family for well over 26 years. In fact recently Ramzi was flown to England to attend to Yasodaras as a bride at the time of her marriage.

This evenings collection will show Ramzis unfading talent for his profession which he has nurtured over the years and is out to prove that he is yet unbeatable at the game.