Paul Costelloe is an Irish designer and artist who has been in British and Irish fashion for the last 30 years. His father, a figure in the Irish rainwear market, was originally from Limerick and his mother, an American from New York. He was the youngest of a large family of seven children. In 1979 he married his wife Anne, with whom he, like his parents, has had 7 children. In 1999 he moved from Dublin to London where his designer label is based.