Kate Spade Expands Home Offerings

Kate Spade & Company is expanding its presence in the home category with four new licensing partnerships for the Kate Spade New York brand.

New products, which will launch at retail from May to spring 2016, will include bedding, bath, furniture, fabric, wallpaper and rugs and will complement existing categories including tabletop with Lenox, table linens and kitchen textiles with Town & Country Living and stationery and gifting collections with Lifeguard Press.

New partners include:

The company is also expanding its agreement with Lenox to introduce a new Kate Spade New York housewares collection, All in Good Taste, that features decorative food prep items, cookware and bakeware. All in Good Taste will be available in August.

"We are intently focused on our two key axes of growth–product category expansion and geographic expansion–and reaching customers across our four category pillars, women's, men's, children's and home," says Craig A. Leavitt, chief executive officer, Kate Spade & Company. "This robust expansion of home décor offerings under the Kate Spade New York brand is an important step toward our vision of becoming a powerful, global, multi-channel lifestyle brand."