We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Bahar Omrani a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.
Bahar, we’re thrilled to have you on our platform and we think there is so much folks can learn from you and your story. Something that matters deeply to us is living a life and leading a career filled with purpose and so let’s start by chatting about how you found your purpose.
I think about the things that I can do and the things that I’m good in. I look what I do that I enjoy the most and if it makes others happy or help them. This is what makes me motivated to move forward in a direction that is right for me and help others.
Let’s take a small detour – maybe you can share a bit about yourself before we dive back into some of the other questions we had for you?
I always loved creating and enjoyed the colors, so painting, making clothes for my dolls and art I general was my passion. When I was high school I knew I wanted to go to art field. That lots of families where against the kids go to art field because of unknown feature income, But my dad who is an artist and come from an artist family he encouraged me and supported me. He bought me a new sewing machine and very good scissors that after34 years I still have it and cut my customers fabric with it.
I met my husband in fashion university, we both had same passion and same interest and after we got married and I moved to united sates we started the Bahar&Reza business with 2 ties and one scarf inspired by Persian motives on eBay. Little by little we got more attention and we created more designs and then jewelry and fabrics. With adding clothes design to our line we started to go to different fashion shows and opened our own shop in Oakwood Ohio. During these years we got an honor to create and design for H.I.M empress Farah Pahlavi, the ex queen of Iran, Mrs. Fran Dewine, The First Lady of Ohio and some red carpet dresses and gowns.
At the beginning everyone told us to move to New York or LA for the success, but we decided to stay and make it work! Honestly with the power of social media it really doesn’t matter any more we are located.
What has been very important in my job is that I love what I do and try to do my best. My clients know that and that how make a good relationship. our business has expanded very much more and we added the shoes lines, custom evening gowns and now we are adding the bridal section in our shop that we also will sell the wedding gowns.
We have learned brought the past years to be open and flexible to all the changes and opportunities.
Looking back, what do you think were the three qualities, skills, or areas of knowledge that were most impactful in your journey? What advice do you have for folks who are early in their journey in terms of how they can best develop or improve on these?
Being able to gone service to people beside creating art was very important for our business to stay alive specially during covid that lots of business shot down, One thing that is very Important for artist to know business skills. We lost lots of money and time because of lack of that at the beginning. only be good in your art is not enough we should learn the promoting the art in aright direction.
Alright so to wrap up, who deserves credit for helping you overcome challenges or build some of the essential skills you’ve needed?
Hard working, customer satisfaction was my priority. looking at each project as my signature that I want it to look perfect.
Contact Info:
- Website: www.BaharReza.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/baharreza?igsh=cHR6Z28wczlhN3A5&utm_source=qr
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100064826282932
- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bahar-reza/
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/baharrezadesign/status/1777879808044634247?s=12&t=1Tm70ITR8GFElX_RWm56Ew
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXwZ4x41pnVRSG6pUqOf-TA
