David Evins

Biography:

David Evins, the sheer designer of shoes was born in 1909 in England was a legendary shoemaker in the history of the haute couture. He was well renowned for his excellent adroitness of shoes. This maverick designer knows all the tools and traditions of a great artisan. He had snobbishly a good taste of designing shoes that reach up to the expectations of the fashionable women.

But the sudden death of this magnificent shoe designer on 28 December 1991 had made the haute couture lost in deep grief. But however even after his death he is an immemorial gleaming star of the haute monde world. His collections of shoes are outstanding and simply superb that stealed the hearts of many.

Company: This head honcho shoe designer had worked for I. Miller in crafting shoes in 1941.

In Field Since: After being fired out from a footwear magazine where he worked as an illustrator, he then motivated his desire and interest towards designing pursuit. He started his designing career by working as a pattern maker. And with in a short period to his great luck in 1941 he got a contract from I. Miller

Designs For: David Evins was an astounding and a warm gun in designing shoes. His shoe designs are so marvelous that many Hollywood starlets, celebrities and aristocratic clienteles are obsessed with his collections. Some of his mind blowing and popular shoe designs during 40s-70s are Platform sling-backs, a mul

Popularity: David Evins was a big cheese in the high end world of fashion. His collections of shoes were heart throbbing for women during 1940s-70s. His fabulous shoe designs overlays an elegant, feminine and stilty look providing the ultimate comfort. The wealthy and aristocrats flocked to him as they recognized his talent and hailed him as a czar in designing shoes. His collections became world wide famous and he was awarded with Coty Award in 1949 for his excellent shoe designs.

Nationality: American

What they say: David Evins nephew Reed Evins who currently designs for Cole-Haan says "He was wonderfully contradictory, He was an absolute perfectionist who'd fly into a rage and reject 300 pairs of shoes if their black satin uppers contained a tinge too much grey. On the other hand, he was anything but a prima donna. He was always floored when he won an award. He'd stand in the middle of the factory looking stunned and say,'No kidding?'” Linda O'Keeffe, in her book called, simply, "Shoes," said of David Evins: "The wealthy and the powerful flocked to him because they recognized that he was a master of his craft. Even the demanding Duchess of Windsor, the embodiment of snobbishly good taste, routinely commissioned shoes from him and hailed him as a genius ... Movie stars loved him because his creations embodied their own personalities as much as the characters they were meant to portray. He created glamorous mules for Ava Gardner, clunky pumps for his favorite dinner date, Judy Garland, and leopard-skin bootees for the aloof Marlene Dietrich."