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Best Friend’s Memoir Reveals Kate Spade’s Hidden Battle with Depression

Elyce Arons’s memoir offers an intimate portrait of the designer’s private struggles revitalizing efforts to fund mental health research.

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Designer Kate Spade attends Open from American Express' "Making a Name for Yourself" at Nokia Theater July 27, 2006, in New York City.
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Overview

  • Elyce Arons’s We Might Just Make It After All shines a light on the private woman behind the global fashion icon years after Spade’s 2018 death.
  • Arons recounts that Spade rarely disclosed her diagnosis, choosing instead to describe her emotional state simply as feeling “sad.”
  • The memoir confirms that Kate and Andy Spade lived apart for about ten months but maintained daily contact and never legally separated.
  • Andy Spade previously stated that Kate was actively seeking medical treatment for depression and that her suicide came without warning signs.
  • Arons has created a special-edition Frances Valentine tote with all proceeds directed to the Hope For Depression Research Foundation.