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Originally Posted by Ksyrup

Not that fashion or handbags was ever within my sphere of knowledge to begin with, but I swear I had never heard the name Kate Spade before today.

RIP. Sounds as if family tried hard.

Sister: Kate Spade had mental illness years before suicide | The Kansas City Star

Spade's apparent suicide on Tuesday, at age 55 inside the bedroom of her New York Park Avenue apartment "was not unexpected by me," Reta Saffo, Spade's older sister by two years, told The Star by email from her house in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Family members struggled mightily to help Spade but to little avail, she said. "Sometimes you simply cannot SAVE people from themselves!" she wrote. Spade seemed concerned how hospitalization might harm the image of the "happy-go-lucky" Kate Spade brand, she said.