Miles Cahn

Miles Cahn had a background in leather goods manufacturing in New York's garment district. He and Lillian sold Coach to Sara Lee Corporation in 1985 and later ran Coach Farm in upstate New York.

Miles Cahn ran the small Manhattan leather workshop that later became Coach. Struck by how a worn baseball glove grew softer with use, he developed a process to give handbag leather a similar supple, durable feel. That glove-tanned leather became the signature of Coach's early bags. Miles Cahn was born in 1921.