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Upsetting news from the world of fashion today as designer and businesswoman Kate Spade, known best for the brand Kate Spade New York, is dead as the result of suicide. She was found at 10:20 AM ET by her maid in her Park Avenue home and pronounced dead at the scene.
The information available to the public is limited. It is known that she hanged herself and that she left a note, but little more has been released to the public about the 55-year-old’s passing.
Kate Spade started at in fashion at Mademoiselle magazine in the 1980s, but she made a huge name for herself when she and Andy Spade (her husband and brother of actor David Spade) launched Kate Spade handbags in 1993. Although the brand obviously began with a focus on handbags, the line expanded to include things like jewelry, shoes, bedding, and eyewear. By 1996, the brand opened a boutique in SoHo, and was known across the country.
The designer sold the remaining portion of her ownership stake in the Kate Spade brand in 2006 to allow her time off to raise her daughter, now 13 years old. But in 2016, she launched a fresh fashion brand, Francis Valentine.
Uproxx will update this story as information becomes available.
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