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Lillian Cahn (née Lenovitz; December 11, 1923 – March 4, 2013) was a Hungarian-born American businessperson who co-founded Coach New York with her husband, Miles Cahn. Lillian Cahn also created Coach's first line of handbags, which remains the label's trademark consumer product.
LILLIAN CAHN, co-founder of leather goods label Coach, has died aged 89. The businesswoman passed away on March 4 in Manhattan. Hungarian-born Cahn launched the Coach Leatherware Company with her husband Miles Cahn in 1941 - then just a small family-run workshop in New York, which specialised in men's products.
Lillian Cahn, who founded the Coach Leatherware Company in a Manhattan loft in 1961 with her husband, Miles, and went on to help produce the “shopping bag” tote and other handbags that have...
Mar 10, 2013 · Lillian Cahn, who founded the Coach Leatherware Co. with her husband, Miles, and whose handbags went on to become staples in working women’s wardrobes, died March 4 in Manhattan. She...
Mar 11, 2013 · 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...
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Mar 11, 2013 · Cahn's inspiration for the high-end leather totes came from her experience delivering noodles during the Depression. "One of her suggestions early on was: Why can't we make a shopping bag, but out of leather?" recalls her husband, Miles Cahn. Lillian Cahn died March 4 at age 89.
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Mar 10, 2013 · NEW YORK — Lillian Cahn, who founded the Coach Leatherware Co. in a New York City loft in 1961 with her husband, Miles, and went on to help produce the ‘‘shopping bag’’ tote and other...
