
Kate Spade (June 5, age 55)
Fashion designer Kate Spade was found dead on June 5 in Manhattan in her Park Avenue apartment, hanging from a scarf tied to a doorknob. She was 55.
Spade was born in 1962 in Kansas City, Missouri. In 1993, she and her husband Andy Spade launched the New York–based design company “kate spade handbags.” Appropriately then, her name soon become one of the biggest, if not the biggest, names in handbags.
The Kate Spade brand was noted for its bright prints, and Spade herself embodied her design’s cheerful aesthetic, as she was known for her bouffant hairstyle and big nerdy glasses.
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