Kate Spade’s tragic suicide has been used for an incentive promotional campaign and this has raised outrage on social media.
Katherine Noel Valentine Brosnahan Spade was a fashion designer and businesswoman from the United States. Kate Spade New York was her designer label, and she was the creator and former co-owner.
Ulta is under fire after emailing out a promotion that collabs with Kate Spade … one that refers to the fashion designer’s untimely death. https://t.co/IrG1KQML77
— TMZ (@TMZ) May 2, 2022
Designer Kate Spade’s Cause of Death Was Suicide
Kate Spade was discovered dead in her Upper East Side Manhattan home in 2018. Spade had hung herself, according to police sources quoted by the New York Daily News. Around 10:20 a.m. ET on Tuesday, a housekeeper discovered her in her home.
A suicide note was apparently discovered in the residence, indicating that the death was caused by suicide.
According to CNN, a statement stated, although Kate had not been associated with the company for more than a decade, she, her husband, and her creative partner, Andy, were the founders of their cherished brand. They further added that Katie would be dearly missed.
According to reports, Spade wrote a suicide note for her 13-year-old daughter, Frances Beatrix Spade, in which she told her that the death was not her fault.
The New York City Police Department Chief of Detectives Dermot Shea verified that no illegal activity is being investigated. The inventor of the famous Kate Spade purse apparently begged Frances not to feel responsible in her suicide letter.
Ulta Beauty Insensitive Email On Kate Spade’s Suicide Raises Outrage
Ulta Beauty is one of the most reputed beauty salon companies in the United States. It is a beauty retail chain with headquarters in Bolingbrook, Illinois, which sells both high-end and budget cosmetics, perfumes, nail polish, bath & body products, beauty equipment, and haircare items.
The recent controversy around the brand is getting quite ugly as they have used an insensitive move to brand their services. People are getting emails that say, “Come hand with Kate Spade and get 15% off.”
Ulta Sends Kate Spade Email, Wrongly References Designer’s Suicide https://t.co/SHybwxv7Kf
— Feedroxy (@feedroxy14) May 2, 2022
As we all know, Kate tragically hung herself resulting in her mysterious death in 2018, this comment made by the biggest brand is outrageous and filthy. We do not even have to start from where and how problematic this is to our readers.
Netizens have started raising the concern on Twitter and it is unsettling that Ulta could use this as a promotional campaign.
Similarly, the news was first broken by TMZ and according to them, they did try to reach the salon but have not got a reply from them yet.