Paul Marciano

Paul Marciano is a Moroccan-born American fashion designer, businessman, investor, and philanthropist. He is the co-founder of Guess and The Marciano Art Foundation. Paul Marciano was born in 1952 in Debdou, Morocco to a Jewish family and raised in Marseilles, France with his four siblings, Georges, Armand, Maurice and Jacqueline. His father, grandfather, and great-grandfather were rabbis. They lived in an apartment in a synagogue complex and from age 8-15. Paul, along with his brothers, was a member of the Éclaireurs Israelites de France, a Jewish boy scout group which was located in the same complex. In 1981, the Marciano brothers founded Guess Jeans. in 2017, Paul and Maurice Marciano founded The Marciano Art Foundation Museum.