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Coach’s Stuart Vevers on sustainability in fashion: ’The change has to come from designers’

British designer credits a decade in New York with firing a ‘genuine passion’ for sustainability

“[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. Vevers, who was born in Yorkshire, credits a decade in his adopted home city, where he lives with his husband and their three-year-old twins River and Vivienne, with firing a “genuine passion” for sustainability. But to Vevers, whose first job was at Calvin Klein when Bessette-Kennedy was a publicist at the brand in the 1990s, “a time that felt like a real-life mirror to the films of Nora Ephron I find so emblematically New York”, the homage is personal.

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