A person who won the dreams……

It was May 12, 1993. People from different businesses gathered in front of one of the houses of the middle point of Dhaka city and that is Science Laboratory. Because a small house show was organized on the dresses. The organizer was the newly married wife of Mr. Khalid Mahmood Khan of that family. The balcony of that house was very lively and full of crowd on that afternoon. Dresses of 25 to 30 designs were being displayed on that exhibition. Few of the guests had also bought some of them even ordered some more clothing. Gradually these demands made her to think in a new way. This is the story of one of the most popular fashion houses “Kay Kraft”.

The successful house Kay Kraft has not only become very popular in Bangladesh, it has also achieved great acceptance in abroad. Day by day Kay Kraft has become the best fashion house for the fashion and trend lovers. Starting from the 1993 to today, Kay Kraft has become the best fashion house. Though Kay Kraft started with only 3 workers, but now he has arranged thousands of employments. It is to be mentioned that the person who has been struggling for all these great achievements and success, he is none other than Khalid Mahmood Khan. Khalid Mahmood Khan is also a very known figure to all the fashion lovers.

Khalid Mahmood Khan was born in June 23 of 1968 at Dhaka Mirpur. His father late Mr. Hassan Mahmood Khan used to be a Government Service holder. He used to live with his parents and a little brother Shammi Khan. Khalid Mahmood Khan has passed his childhood in the area of elephant road and science laboratory. He has completed till class 08 at Government Laboratory High school and then he was switched to Pabna Cadet College. After getting the SSC Certificates he got admitted into Dhaka College and on the year of 1987 when he passed the HSC then he joined City College for normal BCom. Gradually, he migrated to USA with the consultancy of his parents for higher studies on Managements. After coming back on 1992, he found his life partner Ms. Shahnaz Khan. The main initiator of today's Kay Kraft is this Shahnaz Khan. While he was asked about this, he replied with smiling “Honestly speaking, I am working as an assistant here.”

Khalid Mahmood Khan informed gladly about how the name “Kay Kraft” arose, "When I was in America, there was a very popular radio channel and they used to have program named “K-Rock” which was one of my favorites. So when it was the time of naming our organization, then few of my family members fixed 5 names. So we took “K” from our family name and put the craft with another “K” and thus the name appeared... (smiling). After this we started to tag the logo with all of our own products. Gradually it became a brand name.

When he was asked about the initial investment of K- Kraft, he smiled once again and said, “It was huge. In fact, this was only few thousands of taka along with our millions taka worth of confidence, target and dreams. Comparing to today's world it might be nothing, but at that time it was huge for us. Investment was not the main issue to us, our main target was to work with great inspiration. And that is why K-Kraft has achieved the faith of its client. I believe that this faith of all the customers is the biggest investment for ‘K-Kraft’ for further betterment.”

Khalid mentioned about the characteristics of the dresses of K-Kraft, “Our main target is to achieve the satisfaction of the customers by the quality, color and design. That is why before distributing a new model to the market, we examine it properly by ourselves and then we go for production. Besides we have a creative team who keeps on making new designs all the year round. For this reason, we make a database of the clothing taste of the customers which helps us to fulfill their demands. Since we always prefer the customers' choice first, our products have got maximum acceptance.”

Each and every step of the life, Khalid remembers the name of the editor of Bitchitra Magazine ‘Late Shahadat Chowdhury’ and also fashion designer ‘Chandra Shekhor Shaha’. He said, “These are the two key persons of K-Kraft whose involvements has brought K-Kraft at this place. Moreover, I am the most grateful to the initiator of this organization and beloved wife ‘Shahnaz Khan’. He added, “Her utmost dedication and involvements in this organization brought us here. Beside this, I would also like name those people who are involved with TAAT SHILPO and their extreme cooperation that helped us to move ahead smoothly.” Khalid Mahmood Khan loves to dream about doing some better things and his positive dreams are encouraging him to move onwards with a great success. ‘Stardom’ also wishes him more and more achievements in future through which the people of our country will also enjoy the new trends and styles.