David Evins
American shoe designer
About David Evins
Lived 1909 – 1991 (aged 81–82). David Evins was a shoe designer.
Evins's "shell" pump design, introduced in 1948, earned him a Coty Award and a Neiman Marcus Fashion Award. Evins designed the shoes worn by Marilyn Monroe in The Seven Year Itch (1955). David Evins (1909, Lithuania – 1991, New York) was an American shoe designer considered as the "king of pumps" and the "dean of American shoe designers". He was in 1980 one of the founding members of the Council of Fashion Designers of America.
Life Evins was born on July 17, 1907, David Ephraim Levin in Yanislik, Lithuania. Shortly after, his family moved to London where his father worked as a furrier. After working as a pattern maker for a few designers, he opened a factory in New York in 1947.
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Who was David Evins?
American shoe designer
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David Evins was born in 1909 in London.
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David Evins died on 28 December 1991 in New York City.
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David Evins was a shoe designer.
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