Charles Evans

Charles Evans, a founder of the fashion house Evan-Picone and who was also executive producer of the film “Tootsie,” died June 2007 in Manhattan. He was 81. The cause was complications of pneumonia, his sister, Alice Shure, said. Mr. Evans, a native New Yorker, served in the United States Army until 1946, when he became a salesman in an aunt’s clothing store. So he asked his father’s tailor, Joseph Picone, to create a sample from his designs. In 1949, the two formed Evan-Picone, Revlon bought the company in 1962, and Mr. Evans and his brother-in-law, Michael Shure, formed the Evans Partnership, a commercial real estate firm. His brother, Robert, took a different creative route: he was a producer of “Chinatown,” “Urban Cowboy” and other successful movies and ran the Paramount studio. In the late 1990s, after his third marriage ended in divorce, Mr. Evans met Bonnie L. Pfeifer, a former model who is now a prominent philanthropist. They were married in January 2005. In 1975, his former wife, Frances, and their two daughters, Elizabeth and Melissa, died in a fire caused by errant ashes from their fireplace. In addition to Ms. Pfeifer and his brother and sister, Mr. Evans is survived by his son, Charles Jr., a granddaughter and three nephews.