{"id":464658,"date":"2026-05-02T08:31:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T08:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/464658\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T08:31:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T08:31:12","slug":"william-costelloe-it-had-to-be-right-dad-was-a-hard-man-to-please-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/464658\/","title":{"rendered":"William Costelloe: &#8216;It had to be right &#8211; dad was a hard man to please&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">The artist-turned-designer opens up about stepping into his iconic father\u2019s formidable shoes, being \u2018a proud Irishman\u2019 despite his accent, and his late dad\u2019s final wishes for the brand\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"William Costelloe. Photo: Declan Kelly\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/be989c82-78d5-4771-80ed-3c69582c4bbf.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)\">William Costelloe. Photo: Declan Kelly<\/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)\">\u201cDad never really told me what to do. That was his secret weapon,\u201d says William Costelloe.<\/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)\">We are chatting over the phone, him at the helm in the Paul Costelloe headquarters in London \u2013 a role he has just inherited from his late father, Paul, who died in November 2025 \u2013 and me in the wilds of Kerry, and yet he greets me as though I\u2019m in the same room, having tea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The artist-turned-designer opens up about stepping into his iconic father\u2019s formidable shoes, being \u2018a proud Irishman\u2019 despite his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":464572,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[75],"tags":[18,117,19,17,147476,152020],"class_list":["post-464658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-shp","tag-signature-human-interest"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116504054094003543","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464658","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=464658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}