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After graduating from high school, he joined the U.S. Army and was stationed in Korea and stateside. After his enlistment, he attended Honolulu Business College under the G.I. Bill and was employed by Hawaiian Electric after graduating. He retired in 1988 after 31 years of service.
Richard was active in the Music Ministry of the Holy Spirit Church in Fairfield and a member of the Disciples of Jesus and Couples for Christ. He also helped with delivering for Meals on Wheels and supported America Needs Fatima and the Marion Movement of Priests organization.
Services will be held on Sept. 9, 2022 at St. Paul's Catholic Church in Sacramento. Visitation and Rosary at 3pm. Mass at 4pm. He will be cremated and placed in a niche in Fairfield.
Our deepest condolences to the family and friends of the deceased
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Born in 1974 in New York, Richard Chai grew up in New Jersey. With ambitions to work in the fashion industry from an early age, Chai began by taking evening classes at the prestigious Parsons School of Design in Manhattan as a precocious thirteen year old, specialising in fashion illustration. Eventually graduating from Parsons, and following working as an intern at the respected Geoffrey Beene label (where he worked under Alber Elbaz), Chai furthered his studies in Paris at the LISAA in 1996.
Following a spell as an assistant designer at Armani Exchange, Chai became a key member of Donna Karen’s DKNY team, and then became director of both the men’s and women’s collections for Marc Jacobs. Moving from here to TSE, where he was creative director with complete control over all collections, Chai was hugely successful. This is seen by the fact that his creations were worn by the Sex and the City cast, Jennifer ‘J-Lo’ Lopez and the queen of American TV, Oprah Winfrey.
It was in 2004 that Chai decided to start his own label, and his debut at New York Fashion Week was a great success. Later that year, Chai was also named by People magazine as one of the ‘Sexiest Men Alive’, and the year was topped off by winning an Ecco Domani Fashion Found