Quotes from Kate Spade

Think, Travel, Celebrate, Charm, Decorate, Dress, Live - colorfully

Playing dress-up begins at age five and never truly ends.

Cynicism is intelectual dandyism, but graciousness in speech is an aphrodisiac. (Andy Spade)

She is quick and curious and playful and strong.

never plastic, not even for a picnic),

you can rent the tree from your local nursery.)

Pretend to relax

Devote a year to sampling tea foods and condiments from around the world

Our family has dinner together every night - you can tell that my daughter wants to run. After dinner, I go up to my room and immediately put on my pajamas. I mean, immediately. I read some things that I haven't read yet, and I jump into bed.

I think the details and the quality are so important that it has to have an emotional tug. Even if it's the simplest shoe, it has to have something that says, 'Oh, I have to have you.'

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.

In the same way that men wear ties to add personality to their clothing, so too should women wear their accessories.

If you're honest and fair as you can be, not only in business but in life, things will work out.

Live in such a way, that if someone speaks badly of you no one would belive it. Playing dress-up begins at age five and never truly ends.

As far as I'm concerned playing 'Dress Up' begins at the age of five, and never truly ends.

Playing dress up begins at age 5 and never really ends.

Being a mother adds an enormous amount of stress to your life. You need to make sure you're there for everything.

When you're trying to be a parent and a businessperson at the same time, that is the most stressful thing you could do.

I find color optimistic and enthusiastic, and I adore it.

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

My mother was very good at encouraging me to dress however I wanted to dress. My sisters would sometimes think, 'Oh my God, you let her buy that fuzzy leopard coat at that vintage store?' I thought, of course, I looked like Audrey Hepburn.

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.

I started designing my handbags in my apartment and I had six samples made in satin-finished nylon. I displayed them at trade shows but they went unnoticed at first.