Estévez

Luis Estévez (1930-2014) started to work at Patou in the 1950s and he started his own label in 1955. He retired in 1997.

LUIS ESTEVEZ, who designed for Woman’s Day the dress you’ll see on page 20 as Advance Pattern 8232, is a brilliant young Cuban designer who has risen rapidly to stardom. When still a student at the University of Havana, he came to New York for a holiday, and went to work at Lord & Taylor’s, in the display department. There, he was advised to take up dress designing; worked first with a New York manufacturer, then with the house of Jean Patou in Paris. Back in New York, he designed Junior wear, and scored an immediate success. But his feeling for clothes had gained sophistication, and before long he joined the Messrs. Greenberg and Papell in the house of Grenelle. Luis Estevez has a style of his own and it is one that relies on distinction of line. He has put his signature on the dramatic neckline – high in front, low in back, often with novel slashes and indented armholes… for which he has been featured in LIFE Magazine. (from Advance Pattern Book, Summer 1957)

• Quaker Cereals Ad featuring sewing patterns designed by Estévez for McCall's
• Dresses by Estévez [1] and [2]
• Outfits by Estévez
• The Man Behind The Seams