NY Observer > Kate Spade LLC http://www.observer.com/taxonomy/term/27775/feed Articles from Observer.com en Liz Claiborne's Fire Sale http://www.observer.com/2007/liz-claibornes-fire-sale

For the last ten years, Liz Claiborne seemed to be buying everything in sight, especially things that were to most of us difficult to distinguish from Liz Claiborne itself. (Ellen Tracy? Dana Buchman?)

Now it appears that the company is prepared to part with many of its 16 subsidiaries practically for the asking, so that the company can bestow all its peach-fuzzy kisses on a few younger and more prominent brands like Juicy Couture and Kate Spade.

WWD reports:  read more »

]]> http://www.observer.com/2007/liz-claibornes-fire-sale#comments Style Dana Buchman Ellen Tracy Juicy Couture Inc. Kate Spade LLC Liz Claiborne Tue, 31 Jul 2007 07:15:23 -0400 Tom McGeveran 56420 at http://www.observer.com At 'Oscars of the Wedding Industry,' I Step on Kate Spade's Foot http://www.observer.com/node/32119 ERICA: I just returned from the Modern Bride Top 25 Trendsetter Awards Dinner at the Ritz Carlton. By some insane miracle of divine intervention, Modern Bride chose me and Paper Bride along with 24 super talented/interesting/cool wedding industry professionals for their 2006 trendsetter awards. The evening has apparently been called the "Oscars of the Wedding Industry" and there were enough heavy hitting bridal superstars around to make any bride-to-be drool. I drank carefully engineered cocktails, mixed and mingled and stepped on Kate Spade's foot.
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Me on page 292 of Modern Bride's summer issue.
I shared an elevator with event planning rockstar Preston Bailey (who told my Aunt Kim that she "was really workin' it" with her dress), met Molly Shannon's videographer, which was a bit of serendipity since we hired Molly Shannon's photographer Teness Herman.

Best of all I got this gorgeous, heavy crystal award for being an "innovative trendsetter" on the one year anniversary, to the day, of the launch of my business. Color me flattered to the nth degree. There were no tear filled speeches or dancing showgirls, but here are some other highlights and observations of the evening:  read more »

]]> http://www.observer.com/node/32119#comments Kate Spade LLC Modern Bride Magazine Molly Shannon The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Co. LLC Wed, 17 May 2006 06:44:02 -0400 Observer Staff 32119 at http://www.observer.com Eight Day Week http://www.observer.com/2004/eight-day-week-8 Wednesday 7th  read more »]]> http://www.observer.com/2004/eight-day-week-8#comments Arts & Culture Dorothy Parker Ford Mustang Kate Spade LLC TriBeCa Sun, 11 Apr 2004 20:00:00 -0400 Noelle Hancock and Jessica Joffe 49085 at http://www.observer.com Freshen Up, Ladies! A Dozen Vows for 2003 http://www.observer.com/node/46919 New Year's resolutions are a raging, screaming yawn-unless, of course, you break away from tradition  read more »]]> http://www.observer.com/node/46919#comments Media Doris Day Kate Spade LLC NYP Holdings Inc. TiVo Inc. Sun, 05 Jan 2003 19:00:00 -0500 Simon Doonan 46919 at http://www.observer.com The Night Knife-Boy Came a-Callin' http://www.observer.com/node/46278 When I got home on a recent evening, my wife informed me that an alumnus of the Browning School, my  read more »]]> http://www.observer.com/node/46278#comments Browning School Cutco Corporation Isaac Dovere Kate Spade LLC Sun, 28 Jul 2002 20:00:00 -0400 Ralph Gardner Jr. 46278 at http://www.observer.com Of Mice and Women and Popo http://www.observer.com/node/42148 I live on a tree-lined block in Brooklyn.  read more »]]> http://www.observer.com/node/42148#comments Brooklyn Don King Kate Spade LLC Kmart Corporation Sun, 31 Oct 1999 19:00:00 -0500 Erica Kennedy 42148 at http://www.observer.com Who's Really Inside My Kate Spade? http://www.observer.com/node/41384 On the gloomy block of 25th Street between Fifth and Sixth avenues, a line of shivering people, some  read more »]]> http://www.observer.com/node/41384#comments Kate Spade LLC Prudential Financial Inc. The Donna Karan Company Viagra Sun, 25 Apr 1999 20:00:00 -0400 Katie Crouch 41384 at http://www.observer.com