Nationality Indian Occupation Fashion Designer | Name Troy Costa Role Fashion designer | |
Known for Men's Label "Troy Costa" | ||
Decoding fashion trends with troy costa
Troy Costa (born 1975)is an Indian fashion designer based in Mumbai, who owns the Troy Costa menswear label. In 2014, he was hired for designing wardrobe for Narendra Modi, prime minister of India.
Contents
- Decoding fashion trends with troy costa
- Nawazuddin siddiqui walks for troy costa at lamke fashion week 2013
- Early life
- Career
- References
Nawazuddin siddiqui walks for troy costa at lamke fashion week 2013
Early life
Born and brought up in Mumbai, Costa grew up in a Catholic family, his father is Goan, while his mother is Portuguese.
Career
He started his career in 2003, designing womenswear, though gradually he shifted to menswear. He opened his flagship store in 2011 in Khar West in Mumbai. Over the years, he has designed clothes for 35 Bollywood films, Bollywood actors including Hrithik Roshan, Aamir Khan, Shahid Kapoor, Saif Ali Khan, Anil Kapoor, Farhan Akhtar, Ayushmann Khurrana and Vir Das, besides various sports and business personalities.
At the 2013 autumn-winter Lakme Fashion Week, he received acclaim for his menswear. In 2014, the newly appointed PM, Narendra Modi appointed Costa for wardrobe change, ahead of PM's first important overseas visit, to the BRICS summit in Brazil and subsequent US visit.
Recently, he won an award from Hindustan Times 'Mumbai's Most Stylish 2015'.
