{"id":195840,"date":"2025-11-23T10:37:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T10:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/195840\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T10:37:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T10:37:15","slug":"obituary-paul-costelloe-a-designer-of-international-acclaim-who-liked-being-a-bit-dangerous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/195840\/","title":{"rendered":"Obituary: Paul Costelloe, a designer of international acclaim who \u2018liked being a bit dangerous\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Paul Costelloe walks the runway at his show during London Fashion Week last February. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/acaba825-9d92-4f51-82e5-8b098bbfce27.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Paul Costelloe walks the runway at his show during London Fashion Week last February. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Paul Costelloe, who has died at the age of 80, was an international acclaimed Irish designer, who had the distinction of dressing Princess Diana, and, during his lifetime, of being featured on an Irish postage stamp to recognise his contribution to the fashion industry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">As a designer of clothes and other accessories, he once said: \u201cI\u2019m comfortable dropping a bomb. I quite enjoy being a little bit dangerous.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paul Costelloe walks the runway at his show during London Fashion Week last February. Photo: Getty Paul Costelloe,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195841,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,58082,108762,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,14380,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-195840","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-brown-thomas","11":"tag-dunnes-stores-ireland","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-featured-news","14":"tag-featurednews","15":"tag-headlines","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-latest-news","19":"tag-latestnews","20":"tag-main-news","21":"tag-mainnews","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-princess-diana","24":"tag-top-stories","25":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115598580082371319","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}