Anaita Shroff Adajania Explained
Anaita Shroff Adajania (née Shroff) is an Indian fashion stylist, costume designer and actress. She was the Fashion Director for Vogue India magazine.[1]
Early life
Adajania was born in Bombay (now Mumbai), Maharashtra in a Parsi family. She attended The Bombay International School and St. Xavier's College, Mumbai.[2]
Career
She started her career as assistant fashion editor with Elle magazine, upon its Indian launch in 1996.[3] Subsequently, she worked with L'Officiel India, before becoming the fashion director at Vogue India.[4] [5]
The owner of the Style Cell company,[6] 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.[7] 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, and also in the sequel Dhoom 3, she styled Katrina Kaif.[8]
Her designs have also been featured in magazines including Vogue, L'Officiel, Elle and Rolling Stone.[9] [10] Shroff also currently styles actress Deepika Padukone[11] exclusively for all of her events.[12]
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 (Shah Rukh Khan) flirts with at the start of the European trip.[13] In Kal Ho Naa Ho (2003), she played Gita, Rohit's (Saif Ali Khan) friend.[13]
Filmography
Acting credits
Costume designer
Personal life
She married Indian film director and screenwriter Homi Adajania in 2002 who directed Being Cyrus (2006) and Cocktail (2012). The couple has two sons and she is the sister of Scherezade Shroff.[14]
Her sister, Scherezade Shroff is a YouTube vlogger. She married actor Vaibhav Talwar in 2016.[15]
Awards
Notes and References
- Web site: 29 March 2020. HT Brunch Cover Story: Some good-natured bawi banter!. 9 June 2020. Hindustan Times. en.
- Web site: 29 July 2017. "It's a myth that fashionable clothes work only on skinny people," celebrity stylist Anaita Shroff Adajania shoots straight. 9 June 2020. Hindustan Times. en.
- Web site: 5 steps to being a stylist: Anaita Shroff . Hindustan Times. 17 July 2010. 23 December 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100718094605/http://www.hindustantimes.com/news-feed/fashionguru/5-steps-to-being-a-stylist-anaita-shroff/article1-573612.aspx . 18 July 2010 . dead .
- Web site: Q&A With Vogue Fashion Director Anaita Shroff Adajania . Mumbai Boss . 6 January 2013 . 23 December 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131224101451/http://mumbaiboss.com/2013/01/06/in-conversation-with-vogue-fashion-director-anaita-shroff-adajania/ . 24 December 2013 . dead .
- Web site: Fashion Director Anaita Shroff Adajania. www.vogue.in. 12 August 2010. 23 December 2013. 19 October 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20131019215029/http://www.vogue.in/content/fashion-guide-muted-colours. dead.
- News: Wadhwani . Sita . Anaita Shroff Adajania, Fashion Director . 29 September 2023 . The Business of Fashion . 17 March 2015 . en.
- Web site: Anaita Shroff - The stylist for Dhoom 2 . https://archive.today/20120715071354/http://entertainment.oneindia.in/bollywood/features/dhoom2-010107.html . dead . 15 July 2012 . OneIndia . 1 January 2007 . 29 September 2023.
- Web site: Dhoom 3: Body of work. Livemint. 20 December 2013. 23 December 2013.
- Web site: Making Hrithik, Ash look super hot . Rediff.com, movies. 28 November 2006.
- News: Anaita Shroff Adajania. 12 October 2004. Indiatimes. 1 July 2010. 13 July 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20110713025757/http://chatinterviews.indiatimes.com/articleshow/883404.cms. dead.
- News: Blaggan. Ishita. NDTV Exclusive: Finding Fanny Designer Anaita Shroff on Dressing Dimple and the Sixth Oddball. 9 January 2016. NDTV. 12 September 2014.
- Web site: Hrithik and Deepika have Anaita to thank. 24 April 2022. Emirates247.com. 18 February 2013.
- News: Anaita Shroff Adajania on playing Kajol's friend Sheena in DDLJ: 'I did it for a laugh and a paid holiday to Europe' . 24 April 2022 . Hindustan Times . 20 October 2020 . en.
- Web site: Ten things you should know about Cocktail's director, Homi Adajania . Firstpost. 11 July 2012. 23 December 2013.
- Inside Scherezade Shroff's wedding with Vaibhav Talwar's wedding . 23 April 2022 . . en-IN.
- Web site: Indian Academy Film Awards: Aamir Khan Bollywood Political Musical + Hrithik Roshan & Rani Mukherji Among Winners.
- Web site: IIFA Through the Years - IIFA 2010 : Columbo, Sri Lanka - IIFA . 20 March 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160315135944/http://www.iifa.com/iifa-years/iifa-years-2010/ . 15 March 2016 . dead .
