12 Facts About Frank Mechaly

Frank Mechaly was born on May 9,1975 and is a French jeans designer and brand maker, specializing in premium denim.

Frank Mechaly was born in Marseille, France and raised in Saint-Tropez.

The young Frank Mechaly spent many of his days playing in the factory and experimenting on his own designs using scraps of denim.

Frank Mechaly went from attending private schools and having hired chauffeurs to public school and a very frugal living in which the family struggled.

At age 15, Frank Mechaly quit school and at 16 moved to St Tropez, where he began to work in retail clothing stores as a sales person.

Frank Mechaly soon moved on to buying vintage clothing, especially vintage Levis and reselling for a profit.

In 1999, Frank's father David Mechaly moved from south of France to Los Angeles to start a new jeans company.

Frank Mechaly sent him samples of his Culture Couture brand and they decided to produce the line in the US However, due to trademark issues in the US it was renamed Blue Cult.

Frank Mechaly was helped by Maurice Marciano, the CEO of Guess, Inc, who hired him to produce private label apparel and admired his distinctive vintage, distressed and worn details in jeans.

Frank Mechaly claimed that he never had any intention of doing that and that the brand was inspired by his birthday, which was on May 9,1975 and that he had simply wanted to stand out by using a number rather than a word or letters like most other brands.

Frank Mechaly was no longer able to pay the 300 employees he had on payroll and in 2007 he ran out of resources and chose to give in to a settlement.

Frank Mechaly's stated intentions are to maintain utmost quality in fabric, fit and formula, using the finest fabrics from Europe and Japan but completely produced and marketed in the US, utilizing US workers rather than outsourcing to China, therefore insuring complete control over the quality and integrity of the process.