Richard Chai is an American fashion designer.
Richard Chai is an American fashion designer.
Chai creates clothes for an eponymous label. [1] [2] Before launching his own line, he designed for Marc by Marc Jacobs, [3] and Cristiano Ronaldo for two labels, for underwear and socks from 2013 [4] and then for shirts from 2014. [5]
In 2008, he released a capsule line under Target's Go International.
Richard Chai partnered with design firm Snarkitecture for a new pop-up retail store underneath the Highline at 504 West 24th Street in Manhattan. The project entitled "Building Fashion" [6] and conceived by BOFFO and Spilios Gianakopoulos [7] aimed to promote collaborations between architecture and fashion. Snarkitecture's installation [8] [9] re-imagined the retail interior as a glacial cavern, hand carved from EPS foam. The store carried Chai's men's and women's collections and was open for 10 days in October 2010. [10]
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