David Evins (1909, Lithuania – 1991, New York) was an American shoe designer considered as the "king of

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" and the "dean of American shoe designers". He was in 1980 one of the founding members of the

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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. The family emigrated from England to the United States in 1920. Evins studied at the

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in New York and started working as an illustrator for a footwear magazine. After working as a pattern maker for a few designers, he opened a factory in New York in 1947.

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