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Paul Costelloe is an Irish designer and artist who has been in British and Irish fashion for the last 30 years. His father, a figure in the Irish rainwear market, was originally from Limerick and his mother, an American from New York. He was the youngest of a large family of seven children. In 1979 he married his wife Anne, with whom he, like his parents, has had 7 children. In 1999 he moved from Dublin to London where his designer label is based.〔(Costelloe, castration and chauvinism )〕 == The Paul Costelloe Label == Originally based in Dublin, but now in the heart of London, Paul Costelloe’s fashion house has developed into a family run business and he continues to be at the helm of his own collections. He was educated at the well-known Catholic school, Blackrock College in Dublin with fellow Irish designer Pauric Sweeney, but left at the age of 16 and worked in a pig factory in the town of Cappoquin in Co. Waterford. Having looked into book-keeping for a short-period of time, a process of elimination left fashion design as the most obvious career choice due to his artistic strengths. Soon after, in the late 1960s, Paul moved to Paris and trained in the Faubourg Saint Honoré Hautes Coutures boutiques and went on to become design assistant at Jacques Esterel. After a move to Italy where he worked as a designer for the upscale retailer, la Rinascente, Paul shifted across the Atlantic to New York where he experienced working in the burgeoning fashion industry on 7th Avenue. Upon his return to Dublin from the States in 1978, he set up his own independent fashion label in 1979; Paul Costelloe Collections. The Paul Costelloe label was expanded to the UK in the early 1990s and with it, a new label; Paul Costelloe Dressage. By 1994, the business was established enough to have a flagship store in the prestigious Knightsbridge area of London. The Paul Costelloe name is now well known throughout Ireland, the UK and abroad, with his clothing seen in retailers such as House of Fraser and John Lewis. The number of stand-alone stores has also seen a boom with shops appearing in all the major cities of the UK including Edinburgh, Manchester and Cardiff. In 2000, Costelloe went into partnership with Signature Brands which specialised in the management and development of top fashion brands but this association ended in 2011 and since then Costelloe has been developing his designs independently. Despite having been quoted as describing his catwalk shows as "just PR" (Mirza, 2008), London Fashion Week has been an intrinsic part of Paul Costelloe ladies wear. He has presented his Spring/Summer and Autumn/Winter catwalk collections at London Fashion Week every season for the last 15 years, and has opened the week for the last 6 seasons due to the consistent flare his shows bring. According to the fashion industry journal Drapers, Costelloe's “staying power is beyond dispute” (Mirza, 2008.) The models he has used include Jerry Hall, Caprice and Jodie Kidd. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Paul Costelloe」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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