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Coach’s Stuart Vevers: Sustainability ‘Has to Come From Designers’

The creative director used his New York fashion catwalk as a staging ground for a series of upcycled looks.
Coach Autumn/Winter 2024.
Coach Autumn/Winter 2024. (Spotlight/Launchmetrics.com)

What is the point of catwalk shows, now that social media serves up fresh trends to everyone’s phone every day of the year? “[It] has to be about sustainability”, says Stuart Vevers, the British designer who has spent the last decade bringing fashion credibility and a new point of view to the once-staid American handbag brand Coach.

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