By 2006, the Helmut Lang, Amy Fairclough, Ghee, and Jil Sander labels were sold.
Jil Sander was sold to the private equity
firm Change Capital Partners, which was headed by Luc Vandevelde, the chairman of Carrefour, while the Helmut Lang label is now owned by Japanese fashion company Link Theory.
Eager to make a career in films, he became a stage actor and
then successfully auditioned to be a part of the Telugu film Jil(2015), whose makers had been looking
for an antagonist with a North Indian background.