MONDAY 2:31 PM FEBRUARY 10, 2025 UPTOWN
After a weekend of parties, fashion shows, and some football game in New Orleans, guests arrived at The Park Avenue Armory on Monday afternoon refreshed and in good spirits for Coach FW25, where creative director Stuart Vevers unveiled a playful collection of babydoll dresses, cropped leathers, and patchwork jeans. After the show, our editor-in-chief Mel Ottenberg tracked down three of the coolest creatives in attendance—Broadway babes Cole Escola and Tommy Dorfman, and rapper JT—to pick their brains about the collection. For Escola, it was all about the mini moto jackets. “I love cropped things because they show off my ass,” the Oh, Mary! star told us.
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MEL OTTENBERG: Cole Escola, I would dress you in things from this show. I don’t know if David Moses would.
COLE ESCOLA: Here’s what I would wear: anything that was cropped, because things are too long and I have the best ass in New York City. I’m sorry, but I love cropped things because they show off my ass.
OTTENBERG: Tommy Dorfman, what would you wear? I feel like you’d look great in so many of these things.
TOMMY DORFMAN: This is my favorite Coach show I’ve been to in a while. I’d wear those little jackets with those tiny pockets that I can only put my cigarettes in if I’m lucky. I would wear all of the pants, every single pair of pants that came down that runway. I would also hold the hand of every musician that played music in a non-platonic, or platonic, way.
OTTENBERG: I think that’s sweet. It looked good.
ESCOLA: Put yourself out there.
DORFMAN: And I would definitely wear those babydoll pleated dresses that were kind of see-through.
OTTENBERG: Would you wear them with or without jeans?
DORFMAN: Without jeans personally, because summer is coming.
OTTENBERG: Oh yeah. Summer is coming.
DORFMAN: But also, it’s winter and my whole pussy is out.
OTTENBERG: You look great. You both do.
DORFMAN: I’m untucked and it’s out.
OTTENBERG: Looks great.
DORFMAN: Thank you.
OTTENBERG: I’m going to find JT. She’s holding a big dinosaur bag. What’s up!?
JT: It’s nice to see you.
OTTENBERG: Nice to see you, girl.
JT: Nice to see you. You need to style me forever.
OTTENBERG: On the record, I would love to.
JT: You would?
OTTENBERG: Yeah, of course. You’re the best. Wait, are you wearing Coach? And then you have some snatch on top of it? I love it.
JT: I had to make myself feel like myself today.
OTTENBERG: You look great. I like your dinosaur bag.
JT: They were not not gonna let me bring diney today. They wanted me to carry this bag.
OTTENBERG: Do you have a favorite thing in the show you would wear? I would style you in a few things from the show.
JT: What’s the other bag? I think Coco Jones is wearing it. I think you would style me with that bag. Coco, can I see your bag please?
OTTENBERG: I would also do you in one of those really short jackets, but with a panty and a thigh-high boot that matches.
JT: Yes, true.
OTTENBERG: I think it would look beautiful.
JT: And sexy, which is me.
OTTENBERG: You are very sexy and I do adore you.
JT: I adore you.
