Founded Le Garage, a store that combines home-design goods and antiques, in Redondo Beach, CA, in the early 1990s; a few years later, he founded the more upscale Maison Luxe in Manhattan Beach, CA
In 2006, he hosted Paws for Style, an annual event that showcases dogs dressed in outfits from famous fashion icons to raise money for the Animal Medical Centers in New York and California