Born in Paris as the son of Arthur Lelong, the owner of a fashion store, he trained at the Hautes Etudes de Commerciales in Paris and opened his fashion house in the early 1910s.
A young designer was born in Paris to the owner of a prominent fashion store. He pursued higher education at the prestigious Hautes Etudes de Commerciales in Paris before launching his own fashion house around the start of the 1910s.