Michel Adam Lisowski, is the founder and sole owner of Fashion TV

Fashion TV

Fashion TV is an international fashion and lifestyle broadcasting television channel. It was founded in France in 1997 by its Polish-born president Michel Adam Lisowski, Fashion TV is the only 24/7 international TV network exclusively dedicated to fashion, beauty, glamour and style and has become...

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Michel Adam Lisowski was born on April 16th, 1950 in Warsaw

Warsaw

Warsaw is the capital and largest city of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River, roughly from the Baltic Sea and from the Carpathian Mountains. Its population in 2010 was estimated at 1,716,855 residents with a greater metropolitan area of 2,631,902 residents, making Warsaw the 10th most...

. His family is of Jewish descent and moved to Vienna

Vienna

Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...

 in 1958, as his father served the Polish government as a diplomat at the International Atomic Energy Agency

International Atomic Energy Agency

The International Atomic Energy Agency is an international organization that seeks to promote the peaceful use of nuclear energy, and to inhibit its use for any military purpose, including nuclear weapons. The IAEA was established as an autonomous organization on 29 July 1957...

 (IAEA). After high school Lisowski was granted a scholarship for Mathematics at Princeton University

Princeton University

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Subsequently he started a textile business in Thailand

Thailand

Thailand , officially the Kingdom of Thailand , formerly known as Siam , is a country located at the centre of the Indochina peninsula and Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the...

 called "Eden Group". In 1991, Eden Group employed more than 4000 workers. When the East Asian Financial Crisis

East Asian financial crisis

The Asian financial crisis was a period of financial crisis that gripped much of Asia beginning in July 1997, and raised fears of a worldwide economic meltdown due to financial contagion....

 hit Thailand in 1996, Michel Adam Lisowski sold the business.

After he left Thailand, Michel Adam Lisowski moved to Paris

Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

 and invested in various real estate projects. Among others the Café Fashion in Paris - a meeting spot for the fashion community. Due to Lisowski's vast network in the fashion industry, he succeeded to attract many designers to host events at his venues - events during which the designers played fashion videos on the screens all around the Café Fashion.

Thus Lisowski noticed the demand of restaurant and clubs for glamorous video programming, which prompted - together with the dawn of digital television - the inception of Fashion TV. Quickly Fashion TV became very popular with cable and satellite operators - being the first television channel dedicated exclusively to fashion. Today Lisowski is the President of Fashion TV (FTV).

On Friday, March 18, 2011 Michel Adam married model and ballet dancer Maria Mogsolova.