Coach’s Designer on Acing Holiday Gift-Giving

THIS YEAR, Coach will become the first luxury fashion brand to have a float in Macy’sThanksgiving Day Parade. For anyone who’s followed the label since Stuart Vevers took over in 2013, there’s really no question as to what form it will take: Rexy, of course, the campily ferocious T. rex who’s now as much a part of the Coach lexicon as the New York brand’s turn-lock handbag closures.

But Thanksgiving Day will not find the English-born designer watching curbside as Rexy bobs along. Instead, he’ll be climbing Machu Picchu with…