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Reed Krakoff to buy namesake label

Luxury accessories label Coach is set to sell its Reed Krakoff brand to a group headed up by founder and designer Reed Krakoff, Coach’s long-time Executive Creative Director who announced that he was leaving the brand to focus on his own namesake label. When Krakoff announced he was stepping down from his position earlier this year, the American...

Fashion

Reed Krakoff to exit Coach

Reed Krakoff who has served as Coach’s president and executive creative director for 16 years is to step down from his role in June 2014, to focus “exclusively on his namesake brand”. Krakoff confirmed in the brand’s third quarter statement that he has decided not to renew his contract, which expires in June 2014, in order to develop and build...