Fashion Icon Kate Spade, Who Reinvented the Modern Woman, Is Dead at 55
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The fashion icon launched a handbag business in 1992, which became a household name for modern women. She was found dead on Tuesday morning of an apparent suicide.
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Kate Spade, fashion designer, found dead in apparent suicide