Bright flash

AFTER Atime, show-goers and followers come to lean on a designer for certain things: a spruced-up version of the rebel’s essential – a leather jacket, the urban wanderer’s wispy prairie dress, chunky shearling. These were the preserve of Coach’s creative director Stuart Vevers. That was until the music flicked on at the label’s show on a warm and breezy Manhattan day – breezier thanks to the raised location on the High Line – and all was blown away. In its place, unmistakably 80s ruched midi-dresses, muscle tanks and T-shirts printed with the faces of Rob Lowe, Barbra Streisand and Michael J. Fox (a collaboration with the estate of late pop artist Richard Bernstein), bomber jackets and sneakers in Marty McFly primaries.