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Coach
Coach is the New York leather-goods and lifestyle house founded in 1941. It began with handcrafted leather accessories and now spans handbags, ready-to-wear, footwear, jewellery, watches, fragrance and a large global retail network. Stuart Vevers is Creative Director, while Todd Kahn is CEO and Brand President. The directory keeps their responsibilities distinct: design authorship, company leadership and Tapestry parent-company governance are not collapsed into one profile. Coach is part of Tapestry, whose disclosures cover a portfolio of brands and group operations. Financial data is therefore labelled with its true reporting entity rather than being treated as a direct measure of a Coach collection or a creative-director tenure.
- Country
- USA
- Founded
- 1941
- Founder
- Lillian Cahn
- Creative lead
- Stuart Vevers
- Ownership
- Tapestry
- Revenue scope
- Consolidated Tapestry
- Documented milestones
- 6
- Lillian Cahn — Co-Founder1941–1985 · house · former · Coach
- Miles Cahn — Co-Founder1941–1985 · house · former · Coach
- Bonnie Cashin — Lead Designer1962–1974 · all fashion · former · Coach
- Reed Krakoff — President and Executive Creative Director1996–2013 · house · former · Coach
- Stuart Vevers — Creative Director2013–Present · house · current · Tapestry
- Joshua Schulman — Chief Executive Officer and Brand President2017–2020 · house · former · Tapestry
- Todd Kahn — Chief Executive Officer and Brand President2021–Present · house · current · Tapestry
- 1941 — House foundedSix artisans establish a leather workshop in New York.
- 1962 — Cashin appointedBonnie Cashin becomes Coach's first lead designer.
- 1985 — Sara Lee acquisitionCoach moves from family ownership into a larger corporate group.
- 2000 — Public companyCoach begins trading as a listed company.
- 2013 — Vevers appointedStuart Vevers becomes creative director.
- 2017 — Tapestry identityCoach, Inc. adopts the Tapestry corporate name.