![]() Kate Spade’s brand “was New York bred, and we were New York bred, and it was important for us to be part of that culture,” said Gillian Greaves Saines, 34, who grew up on the Upper East Side and carried her books in a black Kate Spade tote to school at Convent of the Sacred Heart off Fifth Avenue. Among those who grew up taking yellow cabs across the Upper East Side to high school and playing hooky on the steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, there was a sense of having lost a girlhood friend: the woman who created the glossy handbags that became a talisman of almost-adulthood and the sine qua non of belonging to the city’s inner circle. ![]() The apparent suicide of Kate Spade, the designer whose eponymous pocketbooks swung from the shoulders of Manhattan’s coolest teenagers, reverberated painfully on Tuesday through a rarefied set of young New York women. It was a nylon sack, with a little black tag, and if you were a teenage girl in New York City in the late ’90s, you simply Had.
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