Dear readers,
I know we’ve not “seen” each other in a while,
but like true good friends, when we do connect, its like time has not
passed. Its just like that feeling you
had when you first laid your eyes on a Kate Spade for the first time…..
This past week’s tragic events including the
untimely passings of Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain has really hit home for
this Working Girl. I have a hard time
believing that anyone doesn’t remember their first Kate Spade. She came at a time in our life where our
extra cash was given the fancy globally envied term “disposable income” making
us financially significant. And while
she started her company behind the guise of purses, it was her shoes that made
me a lifelong junkie.
Ironically, it was her utterly practical
patent wedges, the Halle, that put her on the national radar with the New York
Times article about campaigning in three-inch heels.
*swoon* UMMMMM, you had me at
Hillary. This work-smart appropriate shoe choice drew out the whimsical love of
and for fashion we all had inside of us through all of Kate’s imaginative
designs.
And it was this exact
playful design eye that made all of us working girls start to push the fashion
envelope in the conservative office environment allowing us to use fashion more
as an extension of our personality while still being professionals.
Kate evolved from
Spade to Frances Valentine to show evolution and maturity, while still holding
on to the fanciful and youthful spirit all women have inside of us, no matter
our age.
Rest in blissful
fashion wonderful Kate. You will be
forever in our hearts and your shoes will be hard to fill.
*hearts*
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