Maliat Fairooz

08/08/2025

Work for Sealed With Style

In frame : Mushfika Khan Moon

Place : Karim's Studio

30/09/2024

HER DREAM

In frame : Saifa Islam
Photo and story by : Maliat Fairooz

27/06/2024

When Pinterest mood board becomes reality 🥺

24/01/2024

এই শাড়িটি নীলাঞ্জনা’দের জন্য…যাদের ভালোবাসা খুব সহজ নয়! একটা সময় পর, নীলাঞ্জনা’রা পাথর হয়ে যায়, আর ঠিক তার পরেই ওরা নীল সাগর পাড়ি দেয়…


Saree Code: Neelanjana
Order Form: https://forms.gle/8nbzUDH7g4CVePFE6

For details, please send a message in Menka.

Photography: Maliat Fairooz ❤

**** The color of the product might look different in front due to lights or different mobile/computer screen color

14/01/2024

The moment when you realize that one day you used to play just like her. And today, your childhood dreams of playing dress up and imagining yourself as the bride will come alive.

06/01/2024

If we can buy an expensive Jamdani saree, then why can't we do it for other handloom saree? Do you know that those handloom weavers (who aren’t weaving Jamdani) are the most vulnerable weavers communities in Bangladesh? and the fact that the handloom industry (other than Jamdani) is going to be extinct sooner than you can imagine..

One has to have a kind heart and knowledge to comprehend the mission behind Menka, and why I’ve been advocating for slow-fashion through pure handloom sarees for the last 10 years.

Let’s not spread hate here, try to spread kindness - towards yourself, for the environment, for the communities and for handloom. Handloom is a dying art, believe it in every aspect.

📷 Maliat Fairooz

06/01/2024

"Aydha" / reward; present.

Menka's celebrating 10th Year Anniversary this month with one of the luxurious saree, my mother's 43 years old saree revived and restyled for 2024. It's a 100% pure handloom cotton saree that was weaved by our finest weavers, and keeping sustainability in mind it took almost 90 days to complete 10 sarees.

📷 Maliat Fairooz

01/01/2024

Would you believe me if I say that Menka is completing a decade on earth and stepping into her 11th Year in January 2024?! I can't believe it's happening!

Over the last few years, Menka lost some of the major handloom weavers due to Covid-19 pandemic, who chose different professions (RMG/other) leaving their ancestral occupation (a pure handloom weaver) as it has been a continuous struggle to survive within a saturated market filled with machine-loom sarees. When I look back, I see a decade long work of Menka with a persistent goal to promote and save our handloom industry. But when I looked closer, I saw that in the last 10 years I could only reach 50,000 people of Bangladesh, representing 0.025% of a population of 20 crore. Look at this tiny number: 0.025% of 2,00,000,000 people; it just makes me wonder why? When others are participating in the money talks, oftentimes I find myself questioning my entire existence, have I failed miserably? I don't know. I wished I knew that answer or maybe I will never find that answer. Perhaps not surprisingly, I can only work, each day, every day, with the thought that I am truly blessed to have these 0.025% people with me through Menka, at least they are here, trying to support Menka's cause wholeheartedly. Last 6 months of 2023, I tried to emphasize on the existing marginalized handloom weavers and artisans who worked tirelessly for the brand, maybe on a very small scale, but still it's my privilege that I can look at my shortcomings with honesty and with a hope for a better future because I know deep in my heart that I am not going to spend a second playing cat and mouse the time I have on this earth. All I ask from you is to send a little prayer for me.

I wish you all a very Happy New Year, and I will see you next year with more beautiful sarees as ever. I love you all so much!

Photography by Maliat Fairooz ❤

20/12/2023

The story behind this shoot❤️

14/10/2023