Larry Levine (fashion designer), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Date of Birth: 10-May-1926
Place of Birth: Bensonhurst, New York, United States
Date of Death: 09-Feb-2008
Profession: fashion designer
Zodiac Sign: Taurus 
About Larry Levine (fashion designer)
- Larry Levine (May 10, 1926 – February 9, 2008) was an American designer of coats and suits. He was born in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn to Polish, Jewish, immigrants.
- He served in the US Navy in World War II and eventually got a job as a road salesman for Capri Coat in the nineteen forties.
- In 1951 Levine founded Larry Levine, Inc.
- By the mid-sixties his traditional, classic, coats and suits were sold in virtually every clothing store in the country.
- Larry Levine was one of a very few clothing manufacturers of his time to brand his own name.
- In the early seventies Larry Levine hired London based designer Gerald McCann to come to New York and design exclusively for him.
- Their successful partnership lasted through the nineties.
- Levine created two labels for McCann: Gerald McCann and Emily Lawrence, LTD.
- Levine's daughters Anne Levine and Elena Levine, both worked with their father in design, styling and sales.
- Elena went on to design for Anne Klein's coat division.
- Anne had an eponymous line manufactured by MDP, Inc.
- in the 1990s.
- Levine's wife Emily ran a group of retail stores called Emily Lawrence. Levine sold part of his company to S.
- Rothschild, Inc.
- in 1991 but remained as president.
- In 1996 Levine cut all ties with the S.
- Rothschild.
- "Larry Levine Inc.was the strongest label in women's outerwear in the United States from the sixties through the eighties" says Stan Rutstein, President of Casual Corner.
- Larry Levine coats and suits are an integral part of Federated Stores' matrix with garments sold in Macy's, Lord & Taylor, Nordstrom's etc.
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