👠Elizabeth Katz

 👠On December 31, 1914, the third child was born to a family of Lithuanian Jewish immigrants, a girl named Elizabeth Katz. When Beth grew up, she moved from New York to Manhattan, where she found work as a model, then a stylist, and eventually a shoe designer at L. Miller.
In 1944, Beth got a job at another shoe company, where she met former journalist Herbert Levine, and three months later they got married, and four years later they opened their own shoe brand, Herbert Levine.
The first factory opened in 1949. Beth was involved in fantastic design, and Herbert was in marketing — a perfect tandem.
Elizabeth was not afraid to experiment with either form or materials, skillfully creating models inspired by events and achievements in the world.
Beth Levine was invited to collaborate with a clothing designer to create a new uniform concept for an airline — it was a strikingly new and very unusual solution in the spirit of Beth.
Herbert Levine was the first American shoe to be shipped overseas by retailers such as Galeries Lafayette in Paris and Harrods in London, and many famous boutiques in America and Canada displayed these outlandish shoes.
In 1967 and 1972, the brand was awarded the Coty American Fashion Critics Award. They are the only ones to have won this award twice.
Bethie's shoes were chosen by Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe, American First Ladies Jackie Kennedy, Mamie Eisenhower, Lady Bird Johnson and Patricia Nixon in the 1960s and early 1970s, and they chose shoes for inaugurations.
Manolo Blahnik: "Beth Levine is without a doubt the most influential American shoe designer of the 20th century."

Source: livemaster, kulturologia.