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Earlier this month, 500+ employees from across North America came together for our annual Store Managers Conference in Las Vegas. It was a transformative three day experience filled with employee development, goals for 2025 and celebrating some major milestones! 🎉 We also brought the FUN with an inaugural North America Lip Sync battle, Lil Miss Joe (our coffee shop mascot) surprises and an unforgettable awards night. Staying purpose driven, the team gave back to the local community through the Coach Foundation, making 8,000 sunshine kits for homeless youth. A heartfelt thank you to all the attendees who brought their energy and passion to the event. Your dedication is what drives our success. #CoachNA #SMC2024 #CoachCares #CoachFoundation #CoachNY #GrowthMindset

Our stores are hiring for the holidays! You’re invited to our Coach Hiring Day Monday, October 21st (during store hours) taking place across various locations in North America. If you are looking for temporary positions for the holiday season, this is the perfect opportunity to join our team and make an impact. Our holiday roles offer a fantastic chance to gain experience, develop new skills, have access to great benefits and work in a dynamic environment. Mark your calendars and join us for this exciting event! #CoachNY #TeamCoach #WereHiring #HolidayHiring

We are excited to announce the launch of Coachtopia's "Alter/Ego" collection, featuring a range of bags crafted with leftover leather scraps from iconic Coach styles. This collection combines Coach's quality and craftsmanship with a significantly lower carbon footprint and exceptional value. By designing with these production processes in mind, we are deepening our commitment to minimizing waste.   The Alter/Ego collection is being brought to life in a new campaign film, “The Wasted Parts,” starring actor and Coachtopia community member Lola Tung. In the film Lola plays two alter ego versions of herself, one a climate-conscious Coachtopian, the other a fashion-forward Coach girl, who are brought together in a high-flying sequence by the magnetic connection between their respective Coach and Coachtopia bags.   “My generation is starting to really consider the impacts of their fashion choices, so I’m thrilled to help Coachtopia tell this story about production waste—and how we can transform how we think about it,” shared Lola. “I can relate to sometimes feeling torn between style and sustainability when it comes to fashion, so it was really interesting to play that out as these two different characters, and visually represent this duality in a beautiful and creative way.”   👏 Congratulations to the entire Coachtopia team for bringing this campaign and collection to life. Join us in celebrating the new collection and our commitment to a more circular future in fashion. Campaign Credits:  Starring: Lola Tung: @lola.tung  Creative Agency: APE_CC Director and Photographer: C. Prinz: Product Stills: Anders Kylberg DOP: Mattias Rudh Production Company: New-Land Production Design: Valle Varhelvi VFX & Online: Daydreamer: Daydreamer Music: Selfish Soul | Sudan Archives

We are incredibly proud to announce that Coach has been honored with two prestigious awards at the Creative Retail Awards this week in London:  • **Retail Experience** – Singapore Shophouse  • **Sustainability** – Selfridges Pop-Up Shop A huge congratulations to the Visual Experience team, and the Europe and Singapore teams for their outstanding work and dedication. Well done to all involved in these two landmark projects. Your hard work and creativity continue to set the standard in retail innovation. This success wouldn't have been possible without the collective efforts and passion of our amazing teams. Let's continue to push the boundaries and achieve even greater heights together! 🌟👏  #CreativeRetailAwards #TeamCoach #RetailExcellence #Sustainability #ExperientialRetail #CoachNY

Yesterday, the Coach Spring 2025 collection made its debut at New York Fashion Week. With an emphasis on sustainability, many pieces from the collection were crafted from post-consumer garments, artfully repurposed to create something new. Our Creative Director, Stuart Vevers, described the collection as “real clothes in a real, relevant, urban environment. And we’re keeping in mind the values of a new generation that is discovering these pieces for the first time.” We are immensely proud of this collection, which underscores the beauty of self-expression over perfectionism. It embodies the spirit of our “Courage To Be Real” campaign, celebrating uniqueness and the courage to be authentically oneself. #CoachNY #CoachSpring25 #NYFW #CourageToBeReal

We are thrilled to share that Giovanni Zaccariello, our visionary SVP of Global Visual Experience, has been named in Vogue Business 100 for the Tech Innovators category! 🎉 Gio is being recognized for his groundbreaking work in experiential retail, seamlessly blending both digital and physical experiences to create truly captivating and immersive environments to capture Gen Z. Congratulations, Gio, on this well-deserved honor! Your creativity and leadership continue to inspire us all. #Innovation #RetailExperience #TechInnovators #VogueBusiness100 #Congratulations #VB100

We’re excited to announce that our Creative Director, Stuart Vevers, has been appointed an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE) for Services to Fashion and UK/US Creative Relations. He was included in the Birthday 2024 Honours List, approved by His Majesty King Charles the Third. Born in Yorkshire and raised in the North of England, Stuart studied Fashion Design at London’s University of Westminster and went on to work for a number of fashion brands before joining Coach in 2013. Here, he’s introduced ready-to-wear collections, collaborated with cultural icons, and championed sustainability and circularity in fashion, to name a few of his many achievements. This is a prestigious honor that reflects Stuart's exceptional talent, vision and leadership. We are incredibly proud of him and grateful for his contributions to our brand and the fashion industry at large. Congratulations, Stuart! #CoachNY

For the second year in a row, we’re honored to team up with nonprofit partner Soles4Souls to show our gratitude for teachers across the country. 📓🍎 Inspired by the Coach Foundation’s Dream It Real mission, which aims to create opportunities and remove barriers for the next generation of young people who have the courage to dream it real, who better to recognize than the teachers who have the courage to help students make their dreams possible? So we jumped at the chance last month to surprise 1,500 educators at low-income schools with Coach pop-up shops during Teacher’s Appreciation Week. Over 160 Coach store team members volunteered at local events in Miami (FL), Chicago (IL), New York (NY), and San Jose (CA) to help teachers ‘shop’ a variety of Coach handbags and accessories to take home – at no cost to them. Thank you to all our Coach volunteers for helping to spread joy to these very deserving educators, and thank you to all the teachers out there for your unrelenting commitment to the next generation! #DreamItReal #CoachNY Check out scenes from the recent New York (Bronx) Teacher Appreciation event in this short video:

This week, we celebrated Dream Day 2024 - the Coach Foundation's annual signature conference - in partnership with Coachtopia, Coach’s sub-brand that is pioneering circularity in fashion. Over 200 young people from the Foundation’s scholarship program and Coachtopia community joined us at our NYC headquarters for a day of talks, workshops and connection led by Gen Z activists, changemakers and creatives. 💭 This year's theme, Dreaming Tomorrow, celebrates the next generation's determination to dream big while breaking down barriers in their communities, build the courage to create a better future for themselves and the planet, and find confidence in the workplace while maintaining their values. 🌱 A special part of this year’s Dream Day: the announcement of the Coach Foundation's newest scholarship program: The Dream It Real x Coachtopia Scholars Program, created in collaboration with Millennium Campus Network (MCN), to support the next generation of sustainable leaders around the world. The all-day conference included panels with activists Wawa Gatheru, Maya Penn and more! 🎉 We wrapped with a networking afterparty for our students with Coach employees and the other attendees. Thank you to all the teams who helped make Dream Day 2024 a success! #DreamItReal

Did you know that at the Coach corporate headquarters in NYC, we have an archive housing a model of nearly every handbag we’ve created since our founding in 1941? The repository is not only a visual evolution of handbag development over the years, but a source of inspiration for our design team, who look through shelves of historical silhouettes to create contemporary designs. Ryan Bollwerk, archivist for Coach, shared with Fortune that, “[…] we are the only ones who have this at scale in North America.” Learn more – and get inspired – via the full article at fortune.com: https://lnkd.in/eCKyi6ai