Richard Robinson (fashion designer) Richard Robinson (fashion designer) Richard Robinson is a Canadian fashion designer based in Ottawa, Ontario. He is the proprietor of Richard Robinson Haute Couture, and operates the Richard Robinson Academy of Fashion Design. Robinson entered the fashion business by working for Christian Dior and Yves Saint Laurent in their Paris ateliers. In 1969 he started his own fashion company in Ottawa. In 1972, Robinson opened the Richard Robinson Fashion Design Academy. Each year in May the Academy mounts a fashion show to display the work of both Robinson and his students. The event is usually held at the Lac Leamy
John Flett (fashion designer) unable to sustain his business venture. His business affairs were described as a "rocky road" and he parted company with his backers in 1988/9. He moved on to Paris to work for Claude Montana on the designer's debut collection for Lanvin. Flett relocated to Florence in 1990, where he worked for Italian designer Enrico Coveri on a menswear range (Coveri died in 1990). Flett's obituaries in both "The Times" and "The Guardian" noted that at the time of his death, aged 27, he was on the point of signing a contract with the Milan fashion house Zuccoli to create a