What Mauricio Umansky Did For A Living Before Getting Into Real Estate

Publish date: 2024-05-07

Mauricio Umansky may be a real estate mogul today, but in his younger years, he owned a fashion business. 

Back in 2014, Umansky spoke with Worth about his career progression, and revealed that he was the founder of womenswear brand 90265. However, more than owning the fashion brand, the "Buying Beverly Hills" star shared that he had a hand in trendsetting. "I started the fad of oversized T-shirts on girls wearing leggings," he revealed. 

According to a profile on his time in the fashion business on The Agency's website, part of what made Umansky so successful was his willingness to take risks. After realizing how tough it was to get a foot in the door at the established department stores, he took a cue from one of his employees and went straight to the top. "I went to the big department store and got myself an appointment with the CEO, and the CEO liked our stuff, and I had a vendor number three weeks later," he shared. 90265 ultimately became so successful that, as he told Worth, he was able to sell it at the age of just 26. From there, he quipped, he "had to figure out my next life." Enter a little business by the name of real estate...

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