Beatriz Feitler was a Brazilian designer and art director best known for her work in Harper's Bazaar, Ms.
11 Facts About Bea Feitler
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Feitler was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1938, after her Jewish parents Rudi and Erna Feitler fled Nazi Germany.
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Bea Feitler spent most of her working life in the United States where she graduated from Parson's School of Design in New York City.
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Bea Feitler designed record jackets for Atlantic Records and London Records.
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Bea Feitler worked in an advertising agency with for the progressive Senhor magazine.
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In 1961 Bea Feitler returned to the United States where she was hired as an art assistant at Harper's Bazaar by her former teacher at Parsons, Marvin Israel, becoming co-art director of the magazine along with Ruth Ansel only two years later.
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Bea Feitler was often ahead of her time, in 1965 she and Richard Avedon used the first black model in a shoot for a major fashion magazine, leading to a public backlash, and loss of business.
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In 1972, Bea Feitler left Harper's Bazaar and joined Gloria Steinem to launch Ms.
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Between 1974 and 1980 Bea Feitler started teaching design classes at the School of Visual Arts and worked on several freelance projects like posters and costumes for the Alvin Ailey Dance Company, ad campaigns for Christian Dior, Diane von Furstenberg, Bill Haire and Calvin Klein, and record jackets including the album Black and Blue by the Rolling Stones.
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In 1975, thanks to the insistence of Annie Leibovitz, Bea Feitler started working for Rolling Stone, beginning her six-year association with the magazine which would lead her to redesigning its format twice.
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Bea Feitler died April 8,1982, before the issue was published.