Stroke of Genius - NYTimes.com When Coach enlisted the talents of James Nares, it didn't ask the artist to riff on the brand's logo - it literally gave him a blank canvas. A double-layered Italian canvas, that is. Five of Nares's dynamic single brush-stroke paintings provide the motif for a collection of striking limited-edition totes, 175 each in black, green, blue, orange and fuchsia (above). $798 at coach.com. In an exclusive video, Meredith Danluck visits Nares in his studio and discovers that his process is as mesmerizing as the work itself.