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Coach Retail Fixtures

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This Coach Retail Fixtures index page aggregates links
to all post and photos of the brand’s retail merchandising and outfitting.

BACKSTORY: Coach, Inc. is a multinational luxury fashion company based in New York City.^[2] The company is known for accessories and gifts for women and men, including handbags, men’s bags, women’s and men’s small leather goods, footwear, fragrance, jewelry, outerwear, ready-to-wear, scarves, sunwear, travel accessories, and watches.

Coach was founded in 1941, as a family-run workshop in a loft on 34th Street in Manhattan,^[8]^[9] with six leatherworkers who made wallets and billfolds by hand.^[10]

In 1946, Miles Cahn and his wife Lillian joined the company.^[11] Miles and Lillian Cahn were owners of a leather handbag manufacturing business, and were knowledgeable about leatherworks and business.^[10]

By 1950, Cahn had taken over the business. During the early years, Cahn noticed the distinctive properties and qualities of the leather used to make baseball gloves. With wear and use, the leather in a glove became softer and suppler. Attempting to mimic this process, Cahn made a way of processing the leather to make it stronger, softer, and more flexible. Since the leather absorbed dye very well, this process also created a richer, deeper color in the leather.^[12] Soon after Cahn developed this new process, Lillian Cahn suggested to Miles that the company supplement the factory’s men’s accessories business by adding women’s leather handbags.^[10] The “sturdy cowhide bags were an immediate hit.”^[10] Miles and Lillian Cahn bought the company through a leveraged buyout in 1961.^[10] (SOURCE: Wikipedia)

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