Manuel Cuevas

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Manuel Arturo José Cuevas Martínez (born on April 23, 1938 in Michoacán, Mexico) or just Manuel is a designer for Rock and Roll and Country and Western singers.

Manuel was born, Manuel Arturo José Cuevas Martínez, on April 23, 1938 in Michoacán, Mexico, and was the fifth of eleven children of Esperanza and José Guadalupe Cuevas. He was taught to sew at the age of seven, by his older brother Adolfo, who worked as a tailor. He attended the University of Guadalajara and majored in psychology. He then moved to Los Angeles in the mid 1950s.

In Los Angeles, Manuel worked for master embroiderer, Viola Grae. Manuel was working for Viola Grae when he met Nudie Cohn and he became head tailor and later head designer, at Nudie's Rodeo Tailors in the early 1960's. Manuel worked for Nudie for fourteen years. He designed the suits worn by The Beatles on the cover of Sergeant Pepper ^[1], Johnny Cash's black suits, the roses and skeletons insignia of the Grateful Dead, and an inflated lips pillow for Mick Jagger that designer John Pasche modified into the logo for The Rolling Stones.

He married Nudie's daughter, Barbara Nudie. After Manuel and Barbara divorced, Manuel left Nudie's and opened up his own business in North Hollywood in the mid-1970's. Soon after opening his shop, Manuel purchased a dozen sewing machines from the designer, Nathan Turk. Turk had just closed up his business, Turk of Hollywood, due to health reasons. In the late 1980's, Manuel moved to Nashville, Tennessee and opened, Manuel's Exclusive Clothier's.