Frances Valentine was started by the iconic designer and her best friend, Elyce Arons. Today, Arons is growing the brand and keeping Spade’s memory alive.
When Kate Spade died by suicide in 2018, people around the world mourned the loss of the designer, who’d become famous through her eponymous brand. Spade sold her namesake company in 2006, but in the years before her death, she’d launched another label, Frances Valentine, that expressed her quirky, ebullient aesthetic.