“We call resort winter,” says Stuart Vevers, who is standing in the middle of the Coach showroom one sunny June morning the other day, “because that’s when it appears, around the holidays. Our belief is that our client is living in the real world: She’s not at a resort, she’s not on a cruise. She’s living in the moment.
” Realness and being in the moment are two things that have stood Vevers well. He has constantly focused on them at Coach, and suffice to say his instincts have always been spot on. Standing over this season: , and , but to reduce what he has done to hashtags rather does this collection a disservice.
The truth is he has a pretty canny knack of intuiting not only how we want things to look, but how we want them to , which is to say, loveworn, weathered, and lived in. Vevers’s resort—sorry, winter!—collection is stuffed full of things that perform the sleight of hand marking out what many of us want from fashion now. The comfort of the past, quite literally, in this case; there’s plenty of nostalgia-tinged fuzzy-soft cozy cable knits and full tweedy skirts with huge taffeta bows, rocking a Victoriana-goes-1950s vibe.
Yet also the thrill of newness: That might come from the way brushed flannel pajamas' collars have been faced with satin, à la a tuxedo, or the way that oversized Argyle check knit polo shirts are designed to layer up at will, one of the many pieces in his winter denuded of gender specificity. Likewise the jewelry: Diamante�.
