
Ms Spade - who has been with her husband and business partner for 30 years - launched the fashion and accessories venture in 1993, initially selling handbags before expanding to include clothing, jewellery, bedding, legwear and fragrances. but for me would you PLEASE come to MINE, at least.” “Sometimes you simply cannot SAVE people from themselves! One of the last things she said to me was, ‘Reta, I know you hate funerals. “After numerous attempts, I finally let go,” Ms Saffo wrote. Ms Saffo said Ms Spade made a dark and simple request – to come to her funeral. Ms Spade’s husband and business partner, Andy Spade, also played a key role in lobbying the fashion icon to get help – but no avail, according to Saffo. I think the plan was already in motion even as far back as then,” she said.

“She kept watching it and watching it over and over. Picture: Billy Farrell/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images.

Kate Spade and Andy Spade were together for more than 30 years. The comic actor hanged himself in 2014 and Saffo fears that event played a role in Ms Spade’s eventual demise. Ms Saffo said she’ll always remember the disturbing interest Ms Spade - who no longer owned her eponymous brand, but had started another fashion line - took in the suicide of Robin Williams. “I really wish I worried less … I worried throughout the company and I still do.” “Yes, to worry less,” she said during the Build interview. In 2017, while promoting her new venture, Frances Valentine, a television reporter asked the Kansas City-born designer if there was anything she wished she knew before she started the business. She was definitely worried about what people would say if they found out.” That seemed to make her more comfortable, and we’d get sooo close to packing her bags, but - in the end, the ‘image’ of her brand (happy-go-lucky Kate Spade) was more important for her to keep up.

I even said I (would) go with her and be a ‘patient’ too (she liked that idea). “She was all set to go - but then chickened out by morning. Or one could surmise that Spade was assuring her daughter that she could verify with her father that she was truly loved by her mother.According to Kate Spade’s sister, the 55-year-old suffered from years of depression. TMZ added that one can infer from the portion of her suicide note that Kate Spade believed that her estranged husband knew why she killed herself. In a police interview, Andy confirmed that he was the one who wanted to end the marriage, and Kate was holding on. Kate and Andy Spade had separated and Andy was renting his own apartment nearby. But they did confirm that Andy Spade had moved out of the family home and was seeking a divorce from his designer partner. TMZ is reporting that a law enforcement source spoke to them directly about the fact that they don't believe that there was any outside intervention in Kate Spade's death. Law enforcement sources are now saying that the future of the Spade marriage was being debated, as husband Andy Spade wanted a divorce and Kate did not.

Depression in addition to the breakdown of her marriage was reportedly weighing heavily on designer Kate Spade at the time of her suicide.
