"Born in Dublin in 1945, Costelloe was the son of a tailor who made raincoats at a factory in the city's Rathmines district. He got his own start in the industry at the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture fashion school in Paris, but company lore suggests he learned as much by soaking up the era of designers Emanuel Ungaro and Pierre Cardin as he did in the classroom."
"Costelloe began his career as an assistant to designer Jacques Esterel and later moved to Milan to work for British retailer Marks & Spencer when it tried to crack the Italian market. Though that effort was unsuccessful, he stayed in Milan to work for the luxury department store La Rinascente. Costelloe later moved to the United States, where he worked as a designer for the Anne Fogarty label."
Paul Costelloe was born in Dublin in 1945, the son of a tailor who made raincoats in the Rathmines district. He trained at the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture in Paris and absorbed influences from designers Emanuel Ungaro and Pierre Cardin. He worked as an assistant to Jacques Esterel, then in Milan for Marks & Spencer and La Rinascente, before moving to the United States to design for Anne Fogarty. He founded his own fashion house offering womenswear, menswear, bags and accessories, operating from central London with manufacturing in Ancona, Italy. He served as Princess Diana's personal designer from 1983 until 1997 and died in London at age 80 after a short illness, surrounded by his wife and seven children.
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