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Anaita Shroff Adajania
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Born1972 or 1973 (age 51–52)[1]
NationalityIndian
Occupation(s)Fashion stylist, costume designer
Fashion Director Vogue India
Years active1995- present
SpouseHomi Adajania (2002- present)

Anaita Shroff Adajania is an Indian fashion stylist and costume designer. She is the Fashion Director for Vogue India magazine.

Career

She started her career as assistant fashion editor with Elle magazine, upon its Indian launch in 1996.[2] Subsequently, she worked with L'Officiel India, before becoming the fashion director at Vogue India.[1][3]

The owner of the Style Cell company, Adajania has been noted for her design work on several Bollywood films including Dhoom 2, Being Cyrus, Everybody Says I'm Fine!, Love Aaj Kal and Cocktail.[4] She has notably styled all three films in the Dhoom series, starting with Dhoom (2004) where she worked with John Abraham and Esha Deol's look, followed by Dhoom 2 (2006) where in she worked with Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Hrithik Roshan and Bipasha Basu, then in 2013 edition of the franchise Dhoom 3, she styled Katrina Kaif.[5]

Her designs have also been featured in magazines including Vogue, L'Officiel, Elle and Rolling Stone.[6][7] Shroff also currently styles actress Deepika Padukone[8] exclusively for all of her events.[9]

Apart from this, she has acted in walk-on roles in films, like Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge (1995), wherein she played Sheena, Simran's (Kajol) friend in London whom Raj (Shahrukh Khan) flirts with at the start of the European trip. In Kal Ho Naa Ho (2003), she played Gita, Rohit's (Saif Ali Khan) friend.

Filmography

Personal life

With husband Homi Adajania, 2012.

She married Indian film director and screenwriter Homi Adajania in 2002 who directed Being Cyrus (2006) and Cocktail (2012). The couple has two boys, Zreh and Zane and she is the sister of Scherezade Shroff.[10] She is often featured in her sister Scherezade Shroff's YouTube videos.

Awards

Year Award Giving Body Category Work Result Ref
2007 8th IIFA Awards Best Costume Design Dhoom 2 Won [11]
2010 11th IIFA Awards Best Costume Design
(shared with Dolly Ahluwalia)
Love Aaj Kal Won [12]

References

  1. ^ a b "Q&A With Vogue Fashion Director Anaita Shroff Adajania". Mumbai Boss. January 6, 2013. Archived from the original on December 24, 2013. Retrieved 2013-12-23. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  2. ^ "5 steps to being a stylist: Anaita Shroff". Hindustan Times. July 17, 2010. Archived from the original on 2010-07-18. Retrieved 2013-12-23. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  3. ^ "Fashion Director Anaita Shroff Adajania". www.vogue.in. 12 Aug 2010. Retrieved 2013-12-23.
  4. ^ "Anaita Shroff - The stylist for Dhoom 2". Archived from the original on 2012-07-15. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |dead-url= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  5. ^ "Dhoom 3: Body of work". Livemint. December 20, 2013. Retrieved 2013-12-23.
  6. ^ "Making Hrithik, Ash look super hot". Rediff.com, movies. November 28, 2006.
  7. ^ "Anaita Shroff Adajania". Indiatimes. October 12, 2004.
  8. ^ Blaggan, Ishita (September 12, 2014). "NDTV Exclusive: Finding Fanny Designer Anaita Shroff on Dressing Dimple and the Sixth Oddball". NDTV. Retrieved 9 January 2016.
  9. ^ "Hrithik and Deepika have Anaita to thank". Emirates247.com. February 18, 2013.
  10. ^ "Ten things you should know about Cocktail's director, Homi Adajania". Firstpost. Jul 11, 2012. Retrieved 2013-12-23.
  11. ^ "Indian Academy Film Awards: Aamir Khan Bollywood Political Musical + Hrithik Roshan & Rani Mukherji Among Winners".
  12. ^ http://www.iifa.com/iifa-years/iifa-years-2010/