Early clients Spike Lee and Chuck D helped bring attention to his fledgling business, as did a Good Morning America segment that featured his T-shirt designs. The company expanded further into hip-hop and skater styles, and began to sport a rhinoceros logo. Marc Louis Ecko ne Milecofsky; born August 29, is an American fashion designer, entrepreneur, and artist. He also founded Complex magazine in Milecofsky was born in New Jersey on August 29 He was brought up with his twin Marci and an older sister, Shari, in suburban Lakewood, New Jersey, where his father was a pharmacist and his mother was a real estate broker.
In , Milecofsky legally changed his name to Ecko; he had intended to use "Echo", a name he was known by at home, but since he wanted to build a brand out of the name and the name "Echo" was already taken, he settled on the alternate spelling.
Marc Ecko Fashion designer. Began designing and customizing clothing while in high school; founded Ecko Unlimited with partners, c. Fashion designer Marc Ecko is a modern Renaissance man, moving from a variety of clothing pieces into publishing, skateboards, and video games, most of which are products of his own company Ecko Unlimited also written as Ecko Unltd. While his trendy clothes reflected street and hip-hop influences and were marketed to a youthful audience, as Ecko has aged, he has brought mature influences into some of his fashions for men and added lines for women and children.
A pop-culture Willy Wonka, crossed with [wealthy businessman] Richard Branson. The name Ecko comes from a family story about the twins' birth. Only his sister was physically on an ultrasound; Ecko appeared as just an echo. His parents did not know they were having twins until he was born. The twins and their sister were raised in Lakewood, New Jersey, where their parents worked as real estate agents.
They attended public schools, which were ethnically diverse, with many white, black, and Latino kids in the same class. From an early age, as young as elementary school, Ecko noticed that the way someone dressed allowed entrance to a social group. He also liked drawing and comic books.
As Ecko entered his teens, he became interested in hip-hop culture, rap music, and graffiti art. What became his career began while Ecko was still a high school student at Lakewood High School. Hip-hop and rap music were still relatively underground and the songs and clothes were hard to come by.
In the mids, Ecko began doing clothing design in the family garage, using it as both a studio and showroom to design T-shirts. Because of the importance of customization of clothing in hip-hop, he also began offering this service as well. He made money on the side by customizing clothes for people from his school.
Ecko even airbrushed girls' fingernails. He did a little graffiti, but mostly created elaborate drawings in books. It was at this time that he took the tag name of Ecko, which he later adopted as his last name.
Ecko soon believed that selling T-shirts would be profitable. With investments from his twin sister and friend Seth Gerszberg of several thousand dollars, Ecko founded Ecko Unlimited with them and had some success with the company's first six T-shirt designs. He became known nationwide when this first line of T-shirts was featured on the popular morning show Good Morning America in In the early days, he primarily focused on making T-shirts, some of which were worn by some of the leading artists of the day like Chuck D.
In this time period, urban clothing was not yet embraced by major retailers, but Ecko Unlimited was able to sell its T-shirts in boutiques. They sold well, and Ecko moved into more hip-hop and skater styles. Marc Ecko was born on Tuesday, August 29, , in Livingston. His given name is Marc Ecko, friends just call his Marc. Currently, He is 49 years old and his 50th birthday is in.
You can learn more interesting insights about this date, as well as your own birthday, at BirthdayDetails. Marc was born in the Generation X, his zodiac animal is a Rat, and his spirit animal is a Bear. People born on August 29 have a zodiac sign of Virgo. Horoscope description. American designer known for his global fashion brand Marc Ecko Enterprises. He married Allison Rojas in and had three children. There are a lot of celebrity romances that blossom every year.
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American designer known for his global fashion brand Marc Ecko Enterprises. According to Astrologers, Marc Ecko's zodiac sign is Virgo. Milecofsky was born in New Jersey on August 29 He was brought up with his twin Marci and an older sister, Shari, in suburban Lakewood, New Jersey, where his father was a pharmacist and his mother was a real estate broker.
Marc Louis Ecko ne Milecofsky; born August 29, is an American fashion designer, entrepreneur, and artist. He also founded Complex magazine in In , Ecko started Ecko Unltd. He traveled to Hong Kong to learn about the clothing industry. Early clients Spike Lee and Chuck D helped bring attention to his fledgling business, as did a Good Morning America segment that featured his T-shirt designs.
The company expanded further into hip-hop and skater styles, and began to sport a rhinoceros logo.
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