The Legend of a Goan Dancing Gown
A personal quest for the Pano Bhaju, a traditional goan costume worn for dances and community celebrations, led designer Wendell Rodricks onto a path of unravelling goa's vibrant fashion heritage. [...]
Remo’s jacket & flute for Wendell’s Museum
On Friday evening singer Remo Frenandes donated his jacket and flute to The Celebration Gallery of the upcoming Moda Goa Museum, where Goan Icons and their sartorial style will be showcased. [...]
Ancestral home pegs Goan fashion
Anyone who knows the word ‘fashion’ knows Goa-based fashion designer Wendell Rodricks. A man who took cues from his cultural legacy to create a contemporary idiom for fashion that has found [...]
A sartorial sojourn
Wendell Rodricks turns a 450-year-old home to a museum for Goan costumes In 1985, when Wendell Rodricks was in Muscat, he had a vivid dream about the Braganza house in [...]
Isn’t Goa Style a Bikini? Not According to a New Museum
Down a quiet lane in the Goan village of Colvale, opposite a petite white-and-blue church and sheltered from the sun by a cluster of mango trees, stands the house of Wendell [...]
Wendell, Jerome and the Museum of Love
National Award-winning Fashion Designer Wendell and his partner Jerome Marrell are converting their old Goan Home into a repository of heritage. Here's an exclusive first look at their plans ... [...]
More than Fashion: Moda Goa Museum & Research Centre
When Padma Shri Wendell Rodricks undertakes a project, it is always with great passion, intense research, total dedication and discipline. His ‘Moda Goa: History and Style’ tome took over ten years of global research before [...]
A museum tour with Wendell
Since the rooms are kind of ready, before placing the objects, we are doing a small our for our patrons, so that they can see the rooms before they put in their money. [...]
Moda Goa: Designer Wendell Rodricks on India’s First Costume Museum and his Vision for its Culture
The country's first world-class costume museum,the Moda Goa Museum and Research Centre, is all set to open its doors in the state of Goa. Housed in a 450-year-old traditional Goan residence. [...]
A Museum is no small feat; it is very Challenging
Designer Wendell Rodricks talks about his latest magnum opus - India's first costume museum, the artifacts in it and his connection to Colvale, Goa. An Instagram post by celebrated fashion [...]
Moda Goa Museum – Wendell’s tribute to Goa
Fashion designer, writer and environmental activist Wendell Rodricks is now restoring the history of Goa for posterity with his museum Moda Goa which will be open to public in late 2018. The life's journey [...]
