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Kate Spade Quotes

Before I came to New York, I only had a few pictures of the city in my mind. And you know ‘That Girl?’ Marlo Thomas jumping with her hat? I always loved that, and I wondered what that double street she crosses is. And it’s Park Avenue! And that’s what I can see out my window.

– Kate Spade

People have this impression that I’m a little kooky, but I’m actually very OCD. I love order and organization. I’m a big list maker. But if I cross off too many tasks, and it’s hard to see the remaining ones, I have to start a new list. Now that’s OCD.

– Kate Spade

I was preppy, then suddenly switched around age 14. I asked my mother to go to this vintage store, and she let me buy a leopard swing coat, pink cigarette pants, and lime-green gloves.

– Kate Spade

I like my stationery to be funnier, like, ‘Here’s my note, and it’s an elephant with a lady smoking a cigarette on top.’

– Kate Spade

I’m admittedly not that into the Internet.

– Kate Spade

The idea of recklessly spending money – even though it sounds like it’s lots of fun, it’s fashion – isn’t interesting to me. It is a business.

– Kate Spade

I buy so much fake jewelry, it’s funny. It’s not real. I don’t wear real diamonds or anything.

– Kate Spade

No one realizes how hard parenthood is. I am not saying going into the office is easy. It’s not. But parenthood, as fun as it is, is not for the fainthearted.

– Kate Spade

Starting at 11, I was a movie-theater popcorn girl, a babysitter, a sales clerk – in the Midwest, they start them early!

– Kate Spade

Every time I go to the market, Andy says, ‘Don’t forget the Triscuits!’

– Kate Spade

I love lamps. I can’t stand overhead lighting. I have to have everything on a dimmer.

– Kate Spade

I love Comme des Garcons. I think everything she touches is almost like gold. And she does it so quietly. No branding.

– Kate Spade

I like a full house because it’s how I grew up. I’m one of six children.

– Kate Spade

I collect books – a lot of books.

– Kate Spade

I remember someone once said there is a practical aspect to my designs, and I remember thinking, ‘That doesn’t sound so creative,’ but that is actually the truth. There is a practicality to it. I don’t design just to design. There is a reason and, hopefully, an interesting reason behind it – that is where my creativity comes in.

– Kate Spade