He’s the creator and Chief Creative Officer of Marc Eck Enterprises, a billion-dollar international fashion and lifestyle business. He also founded “Complicated” magazine in 2002. He was brought up along with his double Marci and an older sister, Shari, in suburban Lakewood, New Jersey, where his dad was a pharmacist and his mom proved to be a property broker. The sibs attended local public schools. In his teen years, Ecko turned his parents’ garage right into a design studio and showroom, creating and advertising tshirts with his own layouts, customizing hiphop clothes, and airbrushing girls’ fingernails. In his third year, the school’s dean motivated Ecko to have a year off and pursue his vision. “You do not need to be 40 with sorrows,” the dean said. Ecko never returned to pharmacy school. In 1993, he began eck UNLTD as a tshirt business, with modest investments from his sister Marci as well as a buddy, Seth Gerszberg. He traveled to Hong Kong to understand the clothes business. Early customers like Spike Lee and Chuck D. helped bring focus to his fledgling company, as did a Good Morning America section that featured his tshirt designs. The firm expanded further into hiphop and skater fashions, and started to sport a rhinoceros symbol. eck UNLTD has since grown into a billion-dollar lifestyle business, with complete lines of urban clothing and accessories for young men, young women, kids, and adults.
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