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Leon Max (born Leonid Maxovich Rodovinski) is a Russian-born American fashion designer and retailer.

Leon was the son of a playwright born in 1954 in what was then known in the Soviet Union as Leningrad. He attended an English school and read the novels of F Scott Fitzgerald. On leaving school he became an apprentice in costume and set design with the Kirov Ballet aged 16, by 18 realized that the only way he could improve his lot was to flee Soviet Russia.

Changing his name to Leon Max by taking his fathers first name as his surname, Max enrolled at the New York Fashion Institute of Technology. He worked for New York fashion house Tahari, and then Los Angeles based Bis, a women’s sportswear firm.

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