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Well Known Fashion Designer, Gay Rights Activist Wendell Rodricks Dead

Darpan News Desk, 12 Feb, 2020 07:19 PM

    Well known fashion designer, gay rights activist and Padma Shri awardee Wendell Rodricks died on Wednesday evening following a prolonged illness.


    Speaking to media on Wednesday Nilakanth Halarnkar, BJP MLA from the Thivim Assembly constituency and a longtime associate of the 60-year-old designer confirmed his death.


    "Yes, it is true. He died at 5.45 p.m. today. He was ailing for a long time," Halarnkar said.


    Family sources said that the funeral is scheduled for Thursday.


    Rodricks, one of the most popular fashion designers from Goa, was awarded a Padma Shri in 2014 and was also accorded the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts Et Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture in 2015. As a designer he has been credited with reviving the Kunbi saree, worm by the indigenous Kunbi tribal women of Goa.


    He was in the process of setting up a museum 'Moda Goa Museum and Research Centre' which Rodricks had dedicated to clothes and fashion in Goa through the ages.

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