"There wasn't kidswear in this show, but for Vevers his other two, slightly older children played a pivotal role. The wonderment of his five-year-old kids watching The Wizard of Oz for the first time was a trigger for this show - most evident in outfits switching from sepia-dulled monochrome to chromatic brights. Example? Beaten-up black denim shorts, an inky cotton shirt and grey tie, followed by its mirror opposite in - fittingly - red, white and blue jeans."
"Is it too pointed to compare that to circa right now, when times are tough, economies are down and doom is slightly swirling all around? There was a similarity of silhouette between then and now, a pronounced waist and longer skirt lengths swirling - sometimes in fine lining silks, as if requisitioned from vintage pieces and frugally reworked. Battered baseball jerseys and chewed-up, dogeared sneakers leapt forward to 1990s grunge - then again, that was another moment of hardship, too."
Stuart Vevers welcomed his third child nine days before his Autumn/Winter 2026 Coach collection debut. Todd Kahn, the company's CEO, asked if he should proceed, but Vevers went ahead. The show did not include kidswear, yet his two older children influenced the collection. The Wizard of Oz prompted shifts from sepia-dulled monochrome to chromatic brights, visible in outfit pairings that contrasted battered black denim and inky shirts with red, white and blue jeans. The collection referenced 1939 cinema escapism and 1990s grunge, combining pronounced waists, longer skirts, vintage-reworked silks, battered baseball jerseys and chewed-up sneakers. Vevers positioned Coach as democratic, practical and saleable; many models carried kiss-lock clutches adapted from grandmotherly hand-me-downs.
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