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Coach’s Stuart Vevers puts gen Z on the catwalk at New York fashion week
The designer says young adults are ‘being who they want to be and using fashion to give them that confidence’
Men and women alike wore shrunken T-shirts and silver earrings, handbags jammed under one arm like a skateboard as they loped along, baggy jeans dragging over scuffed trainers. Vevers, who has worked with the American brand since 2013 and was awarded an OBE last year for services to fashion and to “UK/US creative relations” layered generation Z’s favourite silhouette with references from his own 90s youth such as David Lynch and Larry Clark’s 1995 film, Kids. Photograph: WWD/Getty ImagesThe Coach chief executive, Todd Kahn, told Vogue this week: “Something maybe very American in us is [that] I don’t feel good about having someone save up three months of salary to buy a handbag.”
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