{"id":144780,"date":"2018-06-22T09:55:59","date_gmt":"2018-06-22T09:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/kate-spades-father-dies-night-before-designers-funeral\/"},"modified":"2018-06-22T09:55:59","modified_gmt":"2018-06-22T09:55:59","slug":"kate-spades-father-dies-night-before-designers-funeral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/kate-spades-father-dies-night-before-designers-funeral\/","title":{"rendered":"Kate Spade&#8217;s father dies night before designer&#8217;s funeral"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>                                  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Designers Andy Spade and Kate Spade in New York City in 2017.\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/B1F3\/production\/_102155554_gettyimages-674491964.jpg\"\/>Image copyright                  Getty Images<figcaption>Image caption                                      Kate Spade&#039;s suicide came as a shock, both to her husband (pictured) and the rest of her family                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"caps\">US fashion designer Kate Spade has been laid to rest in her home town of Kansas City, Missouri, 16 days after her death by suicide.<\/p>\n<p>Less than a day before the funeral, her 89-year-old father Earl F Brosnahan Jr died in the same city.<\/p>\n<p>He had been in bad health and was &quot;heartbroken over the recent death of his beloved daughter&quot;, the Brosnahan family said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Kate Spade had turned her name into a global accessories empire.<\/p>\n<p>She was particularly well known for her striking handbags.<\/p>\n<p>The 55-year-old was found unresponsive in her New York apartment by her housekeeper on 5 June.<\/p>\n<p>She had been suffering from depression and anxiety for years, but both her husband and father had said there was no sign she was considering taking her own life.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kate Spade&#039;s death &#039;complete shock&#039;<\/li>\n<li>Mental illness &#039;doesn&#039;t discriminate&#039;<\/li>\n<li>&#039;Fashion can&#039;t feel like a costume&#039;<\/li>\n<li>High school handbags and the New York City dream<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Brightly coloured Kate Spade handbags could be glimpsed as mourners gathered at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish Redemptorist Church in Kansas City on Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;She was incredibly kind and had a very memorable laugh,&quot; said friend Margie Morrison. <\/p>\n<figure>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/images\/ic\/720x405\/p0697wp9.jpg\"\/>Media playback is unsupported on your device<figcaption>Media captionHow Spade shaped the catwalk - and High Street<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Kate Spade&#039;s father, who was known as Frank, was in the construction business. He is survived by his wife, five children and eight grandchildren<\/p>\n<p>Spade sold her namesake brand in 2007 and it was bought last year by New York rival designer Coach in a deal worth $2.4bn (\u00a31.8bn). She and her husband then set up another design venture, Frances Valentine, named after their daughter, now 13.<\/p>\n<p>Spade legally changed her name to Kate Valentine (Valentine was her grandfather&#039;s middle name) in 2016 to &quot;separate the two worlds&quot;, she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright Getty ImagesImage caption Kate Spade&#039;s suicide came as a shock, both to her husband (pictured) and the rest of her family US fashion designer Kate Spade has been<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":144781,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}