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Kate Spade & Company
American fashion company
Kate Spade & Company, initially known as Liz Claiborne Inc. (founded in 1976 in Manhattan), and then as Fifth & Pacific Companies, Inc. (from 2012 to 2014), is a fashion company that designs and markets a range of women's and men's apparel, accessories and fragrance products under the Kate Spade New York and Jack Spade labels.
The company is owned by Tapestry, Inc.
History
Liz Claiborne Inc. was founded in 1976 by Liz Claiborne, Art Ortenberg, Leonard Boxer, and Jerome Chazen. In 1980, Nina McLemore founded Liz Claiborne Accessories.[2] Liz Claiborne Inc.
went public in 1981 and made the Fortune 500 list in 1986, ten years after it was founded, with retail sales of $1.2 billion.[citation needed] After retiring in 1989, Claiborne died on June 26, 2007, at the age of 78 from complications from cancer.[3]Robert Abajian succeeded her as head of design for the company, remaining in tha