Farah Sultan: How to Create Your International Brand (March 2018)

Design Management Graduate Talk hosted by the College of Architecture, Art and Design

Farah Sultan, Founder of ARNAA and graduate of the AUS Design Management Program in the College of Architecture, Art and Design (CAAD), will give a talk on how to create your international brand. Farah Sultan is an example of an AUS alumna who studied hard and applied the knowledge she learned on the design management degree program to her life, to her graduate studies in Italy and to the prolific creative businesses she built. Farah is a world-class role model and success story--an award-winning AUS graduate who made it big internationally.

Speaker: Farah Sultan is an entrepreneur, philanthropist and fashion investor. As the founder of the luxury footwear brand ARNAA and the owner of and buyer for the multi-brand store GRAIN, she is a prolific patron of fashion and philanthropist of new talent. Farah is one of the youngest serving patrons of the British Fashion Council Fashion Trust. In 2017, she won the Arab Women Award Young Designer of the Year.

Farah holds a Bachelor of Science in Design Management from AUS. After completing the London Business School Executive Leadership Program, she went to Italy to specialize in footwear at Milan’s Ars Sutoria under the apprenticeship of sought-after professors. As ARNAA’s founder, Farah aims to create shoes that are one-of-a-kind style statements of the highest quality and comfort for distinguished women around the world.

For more information, please contact Kathryn Best, Associate Professor  in Art and Design, AUS College of Architecture, Art and Design. Contact: [email protected],  056 654 1099.