Anaita Shroff Adajania

Anaita Shroff Adajania
Adajania with husband Homi Adajania in 2012
Born1972 or 1973 (age 52–53)[1]
Bombay, Maharashtra, India
Occupations
  • Fashion stylist
  • costume designer
  • Fashion Director at Vogue India
Years active1995–present
Spouse
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(m. 2002)​
RelativesVaibhav Talwar (brother-in-law)
Aspy Adajania (father-in-law)

Anaita Shroff Adajania (née Shroff) is an Indian fashion stylist, costume designer and actress. She was the Fashion Director for Vogue India magazine.[2]

Early life

Adajania was born in Bombay (now Mumbai), Maharashtra in a Parsi family.[3][4] She attended The Bombay International School and St. Xavier's College, Mumbai.[4]

Career

She started her career as assistant fashion editor with Elle magazine, upon its Indian launch in 1996.[5] Subsequently, she worked with L'Officiel India, before becoming the fashion director at Vogue India.[1][6]

The owner of the Style Cell company,[7] 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.[8] 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.[9]

Her designs have also been featured in magazines including Vogue, L'Officiel, Elle and Rolling Stone.[3][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

Year Film Role
1995 Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge Sheena
2003 Kal Ho Na Ho Geeta Parekh

Costume designer

Year Film
2001 Everybody Says I'm Fine!
2004 Dhoom
2006 Being Cyrus
Hope and a Little Sugar
Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna
Dhoom 2
2008 Krazzy 4
Bhoothnath
2009 Love Aaj Kal
2011 Ra.One
Players
2012 Cocktail
2013 Race 2
Dhoom 3
2015 Hero
Tamasha
2014 Lekar Hum Deewana Dil
Finding Fanny
Bang Bang
2016 Dear Zindagi
Ae Dil Hai Mushkil
Fitoor
2017 Raabta
Half Girlfriend
2018 Race 3
Andhadhun
Zero
2019 War
2021 Sooryavanshi
2022 Gehraiyaan
Brahmāstra
2023 Pathaan
The Night Manager
Tiger 3
2024 Merry Christmas
2025 War 2

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

Year Award Giving Body Category Work Result Ref
2007 8th IIFA Awards Best Costume Design Dhoom 2 Won [16]
2010 11th IIFA Awards Best Costume Design
(shared with Dolly Ahluwalia)		 Love Aaj Kal Won [17]

References

  1. ^ a b "Q&A With Vogue Fashion Director Anaita Shroff Adajania". Mumbai Boss. 6 January 2013. Archived from the original on 24 December 2013. Retrieved 23 December 2013.
  2. ^ "HT Brunch Cover Story: Some good-natured bawi banter!". Hindustan Times. 29 March 2020. Retrieved 9 June 2020.
  3. ^ a b "Making Hrithik, Ash look super hot". Rediff.com, movies. 28 November 2006.
  4. ^ a b ""It's a myth that fashionable clothes work only on skinny people," celebrity stylist Anaita Shroff Adajania shoots straight". Hindustan Times. 29 July 2017. Retrieved 9 June 2020.
  5. ^ "5 steps to being a stylist: Anaita Shroff". Hindustan Times. 17 July 2010. Archived from the original on 18 July 2010. Retrieved 23 December 2013.
  6. ^ "Fashion Director Anaita Shroff Adajania". www.vogue.in. 12 August 2010. Archived from the original on 19 October 2013. Retrieved 23 December 2013.
  7. ^ Wadhwani, Sita (17 March 2015). "Anaita Shroff Adajania, Fashion Director". The Business of Fashion. Retrieved 29 September 2023.
  8. ^ "Anaita Shroff - The stylist for Dhoom 2". OneIndia. 1 January 2007. Archived from the original on 15 July 2012. Retrieved 29 September 2023.
  9. ^ "Dhoom 3: Body of work". Livemint. 20 December 2013. Retrieved 23 December 2013.
  10. ^ "Anaita Shroff Adajania". Indiatimes. 12 October 2004. Archived from the original on 13 July 2011. Retrieved 1 July 2010.
  11. ^ Blaggan, Ishita (12 September 2014). "NDTV Exclusive: Finding Fanny Designer Anaita Shroff on Dressing Dimple and the Sixth Oddball". NDTV. Retrieved 9 January 2016.
  12. ^ "Hrithik and Deepika have Anaita to thank". Emirates247.com. 18 February 2013. Retrieved 24 April 2022.
  13. ^ a b "Anaita Shroff Adajania on playing Kajol's friend Sheena in DDLJ: 'I did it for a laugh and a paid holiday to Europe'". Hindustan Times. 20 October 2020. Retrieved 24 April 2022.
  14. ^ "Ten things you should know about Cocktail's director, Homi Adajania". Firstpost. 11 July 2012. Retrieved 23 December 2013.
  15. ^ "Inside Scherezade Shroff's wedding with Vaibhav Talwar's wedding". Vogue India. Retrieved 23 April 2022.
  16. ^ "Indian Academy Film Awards: Aamir Khan Bollywood Political Musical + Hrithik Roshan & Rani Mukherji Among Winners".
  17. ^ "IIFA Through the Years - IIFA 2010 : Columbo, Sri Lanka - IIFA". Archived from the original on 15 March 2016. Retrieved 20 March 2018.