Kate Spade
If you're as honest and fair as you can be, not only in business but in life, things will work out.Collection: Business
Being a mother adds an enormous amount of stress to your life. You need to make sure you're there for everything.
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.
I hope that people remember me not just as a good businesswoman but as a great friend - and a heck of a lot of fun.
I love beauty.
I'm admittedly not that into the Internet.
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.
I really wish I worried less.
I find color optimistic and enthusiastic, and I adore it.
I didn't grow up thinking, 'Oh, I'm going to be a designer.'
Starting at 11, I was a movie-theater popcorn girl, a babysitter, a sales clerk - in the Midwest, they start them early!
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 do things that I actually love and understand.
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 like my stationery to be funnier, like, 'Here's my note, and it's an elephant with a lady smoking a cigarette on top.'
I collect books - a lot of books.
I love lamps. I can't stand overhead lighting. I have to have everything on a dimmer.
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.
Every time I go to the market, Andy says, 'Don't forget the Triscuits!'
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.
I love Comme des Garcons. I think everything she touches is almost like gold. And she does it so quietly. No branding.
I buy so much fake jewelry, it's funny. It's not real. I don't wear real diamonds or anything.
I like a full house because it's how I grew up. I'm one of six children.
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.
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.'
If I run, I'm much healthier - I run on a treadmill.
I work from home a lot. I think I get as much work done at the office as at home, and I'm used to working with people who don't work in the office. I don't really care where they are, even if they're on a banana leaf somewhere. If they deliver their work, I am completely fine. I don't need someone sitting at their desk to produce.
The best thing about being a business owner is that you get to run your own schedule.
I loved fashion, I really did, but I was not obsessed with it. I wanted to be behind the scenes, like in that movie 'Broadcast News.' Holly Hunter - her I wanted to be.
Sometimes I shoot out of bed like it's a relay race, and I'm on the phone, leaving voice mails.
'Frances' is a longtime family name on my dad's side. My grandfather, father, brother, and my daughter's name is Frances.
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.
When you're trying to be a parent and a businessperson at the same time, that is the most stressful thing you could do.
Students were pulled aside to spend more time in art class, and I wasn't one of them.
Everyone loves to get a letter. I love sending them. I love getting them.
In order to lead a fascinating life, one brimming with art, music, intrigue, and romance, you must surround yourself with precisely those things.Collection: Inspirational
Think, Travel, Celebrate, Charm, Decorate, Dress, Live - colorfullyCollection: Thinking
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.Collection: Inspiring
If you're honest and fair as you can be, not only in business but in life, things will work out.Collection: Inspirational Life
As far as I'm concerned playing 'Dress Up' begins at the age of five, and never truly ends.Collection: Playing Dress Up
I adore pretty things & witty words.Collection: Witty
I believe that accessories should bring color and texture to an every day wardrobe based on each individual's sense of style.Collection: Believe
I did not go to fashion school. I arrived in New York in 1986 from Kansas City and was working as accessories editor for Mademoiselle Magazine. While working at Mademoiselle I noticed that the market lacked stylish and sensible handbags, so I decided to create my own.Collection: Fashion
A handbag is only one item to be worn with a complete outfit. Add a peony pink leather handbag to a charcoal gray suit, for instance, and the impact is chic with a touch of wit.Collection: Impact
Playing dress up begins at age 5 and never really ends.Collection: Fashion
In the same way that men wear ties to add personality to their clothing, so too should women wear their accessories.Collection: Men
Popeyes and Taco Bell. I try to be healthy, but they're just so good.Collection: Healthy
I created my bags from the notion of developing a well-edited line of fashionable, but not "trendy" handbags. By designing styles that will be as relevant tomorrow as they are today, my brand has established itself as a modern classic.Collection: Design
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.Collection: Design
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.Collection: Tasks