The company had hired a Hollywood designer, Richard Tyler, to revitalize it, but the move backfired and the collection was critiqued as too young, too sexy, for the true Anne Klein loyalist. Its image had suffered as its look grew to be considered a bit too staid. The New York-based design house was one of the top purveyors of classic executive gear for American women, but in the 1990s had fallen on hard times. In late 1994, he was wooed away from Le Collezioni by the Japanese owners of the Anne Klein Collection. Robinson was responsible for many of the Giorgio Armani power suits that female big shots have relied upon when dealmaking and strong-arming, ” wrote the Washington Post ’s Robin Givhan.
1990-94 Anne Klein Collection, New York City, designer, 1994-96 launched own collection, 1997.Īddresses: Office -Patrick Robinson, Inc., 84 Wooster St., Suite 205, New York, NY 10012. Education: Received degree from Parsons School of Design also attended the American College in Paris.Ĭareer: Worked at Nordstrom department store, Cerritos, CA, mid-1980s affiliated with designer Patrick Kelly, Paris, and with design houses Albert Nippon and Herman Geist, all 1980s Le Collezioni White Label by Giorgio Armani, Turin, Italy, design director, c. “In the ’90s, At a Glance …īorn September 8, 1966, in Memphis, TN. Donna Karan ’s Footstepsīeing associated with the Armani name, Robinson recognized, was an invaluable experience. “I ’ve done a lot at a young age, but I pushed myself hard, and I gave up a lot of my personal life for my work, ” Robinson admitted to Julia Chance in Essence.
He completed an entire season ’s worth of clothes just ten days after arriving. He got the job only when he agreed to start the next day, and had to fly to Italy on extremely short notice. After finishing school, Robinson worked for the design houses Albert Nippon and Herman Geist, and was hired by noted Italian designer Giorgio Armani for his bridge line, Le Collezioni. While there, he worked for an up-and-coming young African American designer named Patrick Kelly as his first assistant. Robinson was accepted into the renowned Parsons School of Design in New York City, and also spent time at the American College in Paris. He decided to pursue a career as a fashion designer in earnest when he saw a film that featured such homegrown American talent as Calvin Klein and Jeffrey Banks. ” In addition to working at the mall, Robinson also loved to surf, and began his own line of surferwear.
It was a fashion-conscious family, he told Rose-Marie Turk of the Los Angeles Times -his parents, he said, “subscribed to every magazine in the world and we had a big library. His father was a doctor, and Robinson, one in a family of five, went to high school in Fullerton and worked at the Nordstrom department store at the Cerritos mall as a teen. Robinson was born in Memphis in 1966, but grew up southeast of Los Angeles in the affluent area of Orange County. “He has the potential for first-name designer status.
“Watch this guy, ” declared Harper ’s Bazaar writers Jennifer Jackson and Andrea Linett. The obvious talent that had helped him secure such a plum job in the first place also helped him land a deal with an apparel manufacturer to produce his own line then the business-savvy designer worked out of his home for several months to produce and show a collection finally under his own name, which was met with positive reviews. When the line folded, however, Robinson found himself out of work but with a headful of ideas. Before he turned 30, Patrick Robinson was designing collections for one of the premier names in American sportswear.
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