{"id":153846,"date":"2025-11-22T14:26:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T14:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/153846\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T14:26:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T14:26:08","slug":"irish-fashion-designer-paul-costelloe-dies-aged-80-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/153846\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish fashion designer Paul Costelloe dies aged 80 \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paul Costelloe<\/a>, one of the biggest names in Irish fashion, has died at the age of 80. <\/p>\n

For more than 40 years, Costelloe spearheaded his family-run, eponymous fashion label. He is survived by his wife Anne and their seven children. <\/p>\n

Famed for classical, elegant tailoring, Costelloe was a designer for the likes of Princess Diana<\/a>, Wedgwood and British Airways. For the last 20 years, he partnered with Dunnes Stores<\/a> to produce a range of menswear, womenswear, homeware and more.<\/p>\n

Costelloe was born in Dublin in June 1945 to a Limerick father and a New Yorker mother. He was the youngest of seven children, and his father owned a raincoat factory in Dublin, exposing him to materials and fabrics from an early age. <\/p>\n

Having trained in the Grafton Academy, Costelloe\u2019s career in the fashion industry began in the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture in Paris. He was appointed design assistant to Jacques Esterel, before moving to Milan where he worked as a designer for luxury department store La Rinascente.<\/p>\n

[\u00a0Paul Costelloe: \u2018I really love Irish people … they are so quick to pay you a compliment\u2019Opens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n

[\u00a0Paul Costelloe: From Princess Diana to Dunnes Stores, the Irish fashion legend who started out wanting to be Irish Ralph LaurenOpens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n

Four years in New York followed, and then came the establishment of his label, Paul Costelloe Collections, in 1979. He married his wife the same year, and the couple went on to have seven children \u2013 Jessica, William, Robert, Gavin, Justin, Paul-Emmet and Nicholas.<\/p>\n

In 1983, Costelloe was appointed as a personal designer for Princess Diana, with whom he is often associated. The pair collaborated until her death in 1997. <\/p>\n

As a result of Diana\u2019s flourishing brand, Costelloe was invited to show at London Fashion Week in 1984. Last year, he celebrated a remarkable 40-year run as a fixture of the event. <\/p>\n

He and his wife divided their time between Putney in London and Monkstown, Co Dublin. Costelloe continued designing through his later years. In September 2024, he launched his first bridal collection, Primavera. <\/p>\n

Costelloe\u2019s family announced his passing following a short illness. He was surrounded by his wife and children, and passed peacefully in London.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paul Costelloe, one of the biggest names in Irish fashion, has died at the age of 80. For…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153847,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,86877,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-153846","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-paul-costelloe","11":"tag-top-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topnews","14":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}