Luksus was born in Chicago, Illinois, U.S. on January 1, 1932, the son of John James [Prince Ivan Yusefovitch Yusupov-Luksiev] and Beulah Maude Wingfield-Driver-Luksus.
He took up weaving in Greece and printing in Venice and returning to Philadelphia in 1961 he presented graphics on silk in print for international fashion designers and became a full-fledged fashion designer showing in New York in 1966 and in Paris in 1968.
He operated his own textile wool weaving mill and silk printing production and design studio in Bennington, Vermont, and a couture/ready to wear house: TZAIMS LUKSUS at 550 Seventh Avenue in New York City.
Among his written works is a play, The Polymachaeroplagidies (1980), and biographic novel, Striking With The Sword of Heaven (1981), a photographic book, The Prince of Prints: The Memoires & Artistry of Tzaims Luksus, FRSA, and the operas Pericles & Xerxes, Zanoni, La Fenice, and Jiullietta di Stromboli.
[5] Luksus's home in Old Bennington, Vermont, contains an historic George Stevens & Co pipe organ made in 1842.[6][importance?]