If you are struggling with depression and contemplating suicide, please, please seek help. Kate Spade’s tragic passing is a painful reminder that we never truly know another’s pain or the burden they carry. ![]() Holding Kate’s family, friends and loved ones in my heart.- Chelsea Clinton June 5, 2018 My grandmother gave me my first Kate Spade bag when I was in college. Her death prompted an outpouring of grief among fans and her company’s customers, including Chelsea Clinton and Ivanka Trump. Spade was found hanged by a scarf she allegedly tied to a doorknob, an NYPD source said. ylX5sA6MpQ- kate spade new york June 5, 2018ĭavid Spade mourns sister-in-law: ‘I still can’t believe it’ “We honor all the beauty she brought into this world,” the company said in a tweet. Our thoughts are with Andy and the entire Spade family at this time.” “Although Kate has not been affiliated with the brand for more than a decade, she and her husband and creative partner, Andy, were the founders of our beloved brand,” the statement said. Kate Spade New York issued a statement confirming the “incredibly sad news” of their eponymous founder’s death. The luxury fashion company Coach announced plans in May 2017 to buy Kate Spade for $2.4 billion. Liz Claiborne acquired the company in 2007, and Spade left her namesake brand. ![]() In 1999, she and her husband, Andy Spade, sold 56% of the brand to Neiman Marcus for $33.6 million. ![]() Time froze briefly, as I prayed for the earth beneath this stylishly appointed Soho loft to open and swallow me, along with the real Kate Spade clutches and totes that were arrayed neatly around us.Over time, she distanced herself from her business. I didn’t remember I was carrying the bag until a receptionist who was summoning Spade for the interview glanced at it and squinted, probably taking in the janky stitching. Surely, a writer who was actually qualified to interview a fashion mogul had fallen through at the last moment, so there I was, ascending the steps to Spade’s office with my tape recorder and reporter’s notebook tucked into the Kate Spade knockoff tote that I had bought a few months earlier. One day I got a spur-of-the-moment assignment to interview Spade for a Time story. Part of trying was riding the subway to Chinatown and buying a pretty, boxy, black nylon tote that looked identical to ones I’d seen stylish Manhattan women carrying, but for $20 instead of the $300 or so that they were going for at Macy’s. One kind, older, gay male colleague at a previous journalism internship had taken me aside about the silk scarves I regularly wore and said to me, in the gentlest way, “You kind of look like a flight attendant, Rebecca.” I had read those dress-for-the-job-you-want stories in women’s magazines, and I was trying, dammit, while earning about $50,000 a year as a general-assignment reporter at Time magazine and living in Queens. I knew nothing about fashion and was not that interested in it, and well-intentioned friends had tried to stage interventions about my style. The tragic news of Kate Spade’s death got me thinking about my one, memorable encounter with the designer: in 2003, I carried a Kate Spade knockoff bag to a Kate Spade interview.Īs a young female reporter living in New York City at that time, Spade’s bags represented class, sophistication, grown-up-ness, joie de vivre, and everything that I was pretending to possess.
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