[7] In 1991, Dumas received a bachelor's degree in the visual arts from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, US, due to his parents' belief that an education in America would be an advantage for his future participation in the family business.
His father had spent a short time in the buyer-training program of Bloomingdales department store in New York City.
[4] Beginning in September 1991, Dumas spent eight months in the factory managed by a branch of the Ratti family in Como, Italy, where silk has been spun since the 19th century.
[1] In December 2015, Pierre-Alexis Dumas was appointed president of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs (MAD) in Paris.
He is one of the directors of the Protestant Solidarity of France and Armenia association,[17] and treasurer of L'imprimerie d'art de Montparnasse — CFF: Centre Français des Fonds et Fondations (Endowment Fund for the Preservation of the Artistic Printing House de Montparnasse), which since 1881 has managed the preservation of lithographer Charles Alphonse du Fresnoy's work.