There’s a noticeable sense of calm that Stuart Vevers radiates, even over Zoom. The British designer – who’s served as creative director of American leather brand Coach for 10 years after stints at Loewe and Bottega Veneta – is conducting this interview from a lamp-lit space at his New York home a few months after presenting the Coach spring/summer ’24 collection last September. The frenetic process of staging a show has subsided, and he speaks candidly about the design process, which he approached differently this time around.
“I was using my memories as a starting point – in a way, it [made] things looser,” Vevers says softly in his Yorkshire accent. “To
