The Spades left the company a year later, in 2007, and haven’t been involved with it since. In 2006 Neiman Marcus Group sold Kate Spade to Liz Claiborne, Inc., for $124 million the brand had been put on the market by the majority stakeholder for about a year before that, according to The Wall Street Journal. She rose up the ranks of the magazine, and, when she was promoted to associate editor, she was put in charge of accessories. Kate got work through a temp agency before becoming a fashion assistant at Mademoiselle, which was published by Condé Nast. She graduated from Arizona State University in 1985-there she met Andy Spade while working retail, and together they moved to New York after college. Kate Valentine Spade (née Brosnahan) was born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri. When news of her passing broke on June 5, it felt personal to many. Her story-of teaching herself the business, of starting her own company, of leaving her own company, of starting a second company-has been retold, inspiring young entrepreneurs, women, and, of course, her shoppers. Her signature nylon handbags were a nineties staple her cheerful color palettes, her playful aesthetic, and her optimistic slogans made her brand beloved across the country and internationally. I still cant believe it.Few designers achieved the level of everywhere-ness that Kate Spade did. Kate and I during Christmas family photos. Kate’s brother-in-law David Spade shared a sweet Instagram post honoring Kate’s memory, captioning the photo, “Fuzzy picture but I love it. We would ask that our privacy be respected as we grieve during this very difficult time.” We loved Kate dearly and will miss her terribly. “Her statements paint a picture of someone who didn’t know her at all.” In a separate statement, her family wrote, “We are all devastated by today’s tragedy.
“The family is disgusted and saddened that at this time of great sorrow, Kate’s sister who has been estranged from the entire family for more than 10 years would choose to surface with unsubstantiated comments,” a source told People magazine. It was also reported that Kate and Andy were having relationship problems before her suicide, per The Blast.įollowing the news of her death, Kate’s family members spoke out and revealed that the statements made by her estranged sister, claiming the fashion icon struggled with mental health issues and that her death was not unexpected, are not true. Prior to the statement, TMZ reported that law enforcement officials revealed that after interviews it was clear that Andy wanted a divorce and Kate did not. Anything else that is out there right now is false.” We were co-parenting our beautiful daughter. We loved creating our businesses together. “There was no substance or alcohol abuse,” he said adamantly. He said that she had been regularly seeing a doctor and taking medication for her mental illness, but that her inner demons eventually won. Instead, he insisted that the reasons behind her death stem from years of battling depression and anxiety. He also revealed that he talked to Kate the night before her suicide, and she “gave no indication that she would do this.” We loved each other very much and simply needed a break,” he said. We were best friends trying to work through our problems in the best way we knew how. We were not legally separated, and never even discussed divorce. “We ate many meals together as a family and continued to vacation together as a family. “Bea was living with both of us and we saw each other or spoke every day,” he explained.
However, Andy did admit that they had been living separately for the last 10 months.ĭespite the fact that he was living a few blocks away from Kate recently, they were still very close. Now, Kate’s husband Andy Spade is opening up about why the successful fashion designer may have committed suicide, and it wasn’t because they were getting a divorce. News of Kate Spade’s unexpected death sent shockwaves through the fashion world and beyond after it was revealed she took her own life at the age of 55.
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