u2018 Wendell showed us that Goa was more than just beachesu2019

FORMER Miss India and fashion designer Meher Castellino had written an essay titled Pioneering Years in his 2012 book Moda Goa: History and Style, published by HarperCollins.

Providing photographs of Goan socialites and events to an eager press, I pushed the state in every magazine and national newspaper.

Another amazing show was by the poolside of the Goa Marriott in 2001, called Craftworks: The Wendell Rodricks Experiment where Wendell dressed the models on stage in front of the audience and cut the clothes with tailors sewing the collection on the scene with split- second timing.

Style in the details When I was planning a show for the visually impaired, Wendell was the only designer I could think of who could do justice to the theme. Such a project called for an unconventional collection and the u2018 Visionnaireu2019 line if garments designed by Wendell in 2001 had Braille embroidery on the garments to enable the visually impaired not only to dress well but also check the colour, style and garments from the Braille lettering embroidered on them.

u2018 Wendell showed us that Goa was more than just beachesu2019 Meher Castellino, Indiau2019s pioneering chronicler and a very close friend of Wendell Rodricks, on her association with the designer When I was planning a show for visually impaired, Wendell was the only designer I could think of who could do justice to the theme

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