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Paul Marciano is an American fashion designer, businessman, investor and philanthropist, who was born in Debdou Morocco in 1952. He has won many Clio awards for his black and white advertisements, where he is the co-founder of the outfit company that uses being used in these advertisements. This clothing firm was initiated and operated by all of the four Marciano brothers who are Paul, Armand, Maurice and Georges, and at present, this original company and its extensions are handled by only Paul and Maurice.
In Los Angeles, Paul Marciano is a large benefactor to one of the larger Sephardic synagogues. Together with his four siblings, he was raised in Marseilles, France, not in Morocco, to a Jewish family. Being rabbis run in the family of Paul, from his great-grandfather to his father. They resided in an apartment which is part of a synagogue complex, and along with his brothers, from the age of 8-15, he was a member of the Eclaireurs Israelites de France, which is considered a boy scout group of the Jews, situated in the same complex where they lived. He was involved in a motorcycle accident with a friend where they collided with an oncoming car. For seven months, Paul was in a wheelchair and was informed that he would never be able to walk. After a year and a half, he fortunately was able to regain full use of his limbs, however, he was not re-accepted into school because of his long absence. With no chance of finishing his education, he traveled to Israel to reside in a kibbutz.
The clothing company which the family of Paul Marciano owned and of where Marciano worked, had shops in the French Riviera. During an extended leave in 1977, the four Marciano brothers Paul, Georges, Armand and Maurice, visited Southern California, and there they developed a liking of the place. When France had political changes in 1981, the Marcianos closed their clothing company and moved to the United States. The brothers then started on Little Santa Monica in Beverly Hills a clothing company, and soon started their world famous clothing line.
In 1981, the Marciano brothers founded the brand famous in the jeans clothing line, and in 1983, sold to Nakash brothers 50% of the company. However, the California court found the Nakashes luring the Marcianos fraudulently into the transaction, turning the joint venture into a sour one.
Paul Marciano stepped down in August 2015 as the CEO of the famous clothing brand and company, but remained as the chief creative officer and executive chairman. Unfortunately, in June 2018, Paul Marciano received allegations of sexual harassment, and so he resigned as executive chairman.