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New York fashion designer Kate Spade found dead, police confirm suicide

New York fashion designer Kate Spade found dead, police confirm suicide

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As per reports, Spade, 55, was found hanging by housekeeping staff inside her Park Avenue apartment at about 10:20 a.m. Tuesday

Fashion designer Kate Spade was found dead in her apartment in New York on Tuesday. The New York police have confirmed that she had committed suicide.

As per reports, Spade, 55, was found hangingby housekeeping staff inside her Park Avenue apartment at about 10:20 am on Tuesday.

The officials say she left a note at the scene. No further details have been given.

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The designer co-founded Kate Spade Handbags in the 1990s.

Her handbags created a huge sensation in the fashion industry in the 1990s, and her company Kate Spade New York had over 140 retails shops across the country and 175 internationally.

Spade was born Katherine Brosnahan in Kansas City in 1962.