Overview

• Elyce Arons’s memoir We Might Just Make It After All, due June 17 from Simon & Schuster, offers an intimate portrait of her friendship with Kate Spade and their shared career in New York’s 1990s fashion scene.
• Arons writes that Kate and Andy Spade, though living apart for ten months before her 2018 suicide, remained in daily contact and were working to repair their marriage.
• The book reveals Spade battled long-term depression and anxiety in private and never disclosed a formal diagnosis to friends, citing stigma around mental illness.
• Frances Valentine will launch a special-edition tote bag designed by Arons with 100 percent of proceeds going to the Hope for Depression Research Foundation.
• Arons hopes her memoir and the charity collaboration will destigmatize mental health struggles and encourage open conversations about depression.