A lover of shoes, Dato’ Normah Ibrahim takes her passion a step further and turns it into a thriving business.
Like many women, Dato’ Normah— also fondly known as Emma—has a weakness (an Achilles heel, if I may) for shoes. Unlike most other women however, she has turned this passion of hers into a lucrative shoemaking business, called Red Profile; as this connoisseur of footwear believes that one shoe can change your life, just like Cinderella.
She shares that, while growing up, she wanted at first to be a lawyer. “I really liked debating, and would normally win any argument,” she said with a laugh. Just one of the reasons she figured that she would excel at the profession. But, as fate would have it, she initially started her career by stepping foot in the banking industry.
This story is from the September 2017 edition of Malaysia Tatler.
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