The Park Avenue apartment
where Spade was found
unresponsive on the
morning on June 5.n the airy Park Avenue apartment
she called home, Kate Spade
surrounded herself with keepsakes
of laughter and love: dozens of
family photos and silver cigarette
boxes that reminded her of her late
mother, piles of books that her college-
sweetheart husband, Andy, savoured
and among the framed artwork displayed
floor-to-ceiling, her daughter Bea’s
creations out of construction paper
and glitter. All of it resonated with the
cheerful vibe of the fashion empire she
and Andy had built.But none of it, in the end, had any power
to overcome the disease Kate quietly battled.
Around 10.10 on the morning of June 5, a
housekeeper arrived to find Kate alone—and
unresponsive in her bedroom. She had died
of suicide at the age of 55. While friends and
fans reeled, her husband and partner of 35
years revealed late the same day that Kate
had been in treatment for depression and
anxiety. What’s more, Andy, 56, had moved
out 10 months earlier to an apartment blocks
away, where Bea, 13, split her time. “We were
in touch with [Kate] the night before
and she sounded happy,” Andy said.I
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Kate Spade
1962-2018
Behind her happy-go-lucky flair for design,
a dark—and deadly—depression lurked
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