Fashion designer Wendell Rodricks passes away

Rodricks was known for creating designs that brought together the traditional with the relaxed Goan vibe

Goa’s most well known fashion designer and Padma Shri award winner Wendell Rodricks, 60, died following a long spell of illness.

“I can confirm that Wendell died at 5:45 pm. He was ailing for a long time,” BJP MLA from Thivim assembly constituency and a friend of the designer told DH.

Rodricks, who was educated in Mumbai and later relocated to his ancestral village of Colvale in Goa, was also a well know fashion historian as well as a leading advocator gay rights in Goa.

For the last several years, Rodricks was also putting together a fashion museum to celebrate Goans costumes and designs though time.