Some mornings, Stuart Vevers steps out the front door of his Upper West Side townhouse, sees a yellow cab whizz by, and has a pinch-me moment. “Not being from New York, and not being from the States, I still am very inspired, very excited by everyday things,” the Coach creative director told me at a preview ahead of his tenth anniversary show.
It’s that dual insider-outsider perspective that has made Vevers’ Coach feel special and, despite its enormity: personal over the past ten years. In many ways the Doncaster-hailing designer epitomises the American Dream.
