Remembering Lillian Cahn, Creator Of The Coach Handbag: Cahn's inspiration for the high-end leather totes came...

Remembering Lillian Cahn, Creator Of The Coach Handbag

npr.org 11 Mar '13, 8pm

Remembering Lillian Cahn, Creator Of The Coach Handbag: Cahn's inspiration for the high-end leather totes came...

Lillian Cahn was the force behind Coach's leather handbags, which today include this high-end Hamptons Vintage Carryall. AP/Coach Lillian Cahn, co-founder of Coach Leatherwear Co., died March 4 at the age of 89. Cahn was the force behind today's high-end leather handbags. Back in the 1960s, she and her husband, Miles Cahn, were running a leather goods business in Manhattan. They produced men's wallets and billfolds but wanted to expand. "My wife had a great sense of style, and she made the suggestions that we men maybe were a little thoughtless about," Miles Cahn says with a laugh. "Among her many suggestions was: 'Why don't we make pocketbooks?' I like to tell people I scoffed at the suggestion." But how wrong he was. Lillian Cahn persisted, and the first Coach handbags went on the market. "They were casual bags. ... They weren't dressy bags," Cahn says. "The Coach concep...

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