elyce arons, kate spade's best friend and business partner, says s day in shock. two years ago, frances valentine. ♪ the world knew her as kate spade. her name and signature style a colorful force in fashion. this is quintessential kate right here. >> it is. that was my grandmother's dress, that my grandmother had bought in hawaii and katy loved it so much. >> reporter: but to elyce arons, she was simply katy with a "y." >> she always made sure everyone knew that. >> katy with a "y." >> i have a hard time calling her kate because that came about through the business but i had known her for so much longer than that. >> reporter: elyce and katy met at the university of kansas and became inseparable. >> so we were sophomores in college here. and we're at a fraternity party together. >> reporter: transferring to the university of arizona. it was there that katy met her future husband and business partner andy spade. >> what is this? >> so this was our first store at kate spade and that's pamela bell, our partner, andy, katy and me. >> oh, my word. >> reporter: they st

retail price for a kate spade back at the boutique which could cost upward of five hundred dollars you can buy the same handbag at walmart for less than half the price other stores like him them have partners with stella mccartney and versace but product offerings aren't only looking to designers in the latest target is teaming up with a nonprofit for its first time we recently saw this with nike when they endorsed kapur nick with that fad and as we see the ever suffocation occurring in different markets it allows for more consumer purchases so these big name brands bring consumers into stores like target and wal-mart which in turn allows customers to purchase anything else on their shopping list. on one hand i mean thanks for that report but it's great you mean such a what you're saying is one you get inspired only nauru's while buffalo wild wings trying to expand to different restaurant areas at the same time you have stores like target that are trying to expand to the demographics so it really is you know there is seem to be sort of desperate in this competition right is increasing

in the past month, the suicides of anthony bourdain and kate spade bring to the forefront. >>> can you talk to us what is depression and how it affects many people. >> it can manifest, people will be sad are feel socially isolated or withdrawl socially and have poor appetite and poor sleep. there are a lot of signs that people are familiar with. >> when it come to the critical signs, certainly we've seen our loved ones in territories of trouble, what might we hear or see that should be an alarm for us? >> big alarm flags are things like if the experience like extremely hopeless or they engage in reckless behaviors and sometimes they will hurt themselves or just using drugs recklessly. if you notice they are preparing to do things like give away their belongings or buy a gun or hoard lethal medications, things like that. generally people will talk in a negative way thorough is no future for them. >> a lot of people will try to make them feel better and cheer them up. what if you do the opposite and actually asking, are you thinking of harming yourself? >> you should definitely ask. it i

high end items at affordable prices some of its current competitors are other brands like coach kate spade and tory burch but now they could be opening the doors to more competition to more luxury brands so it's really an odd fashion moment at the moment so not to mention that michael kors just bought jimmy choo eleven months ago so it hasn't really integrated into the company and it's making investors nervous and we saw that yesterday when shares took a hit on monday trading after waltz the wall street journal reported at the time about the possible acquisition shares saying eight point two percent are a very interesting well we'll look for you out there with the jimmy choo shoes and the michael coors and the restart you stuff you're always helpful on these fashion forward. thanks trinity. thank far. and consumer d.n.a. testing kits are a booming business last year more than twelve million people had their d.n.a. analyzed with direct to consumer genetic genealogy test it's a lucrative business to the rise of d.n.a. testing is created a market that is spector to be worth more than three hu

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. >> apparel is amazing when you look at -- and kate spade and now kors >> so now they have three.hey have choo and they have versace. there were some criticism yesterday that kors was more an affordable price tag point kors has a luxury line as well they do have some experience of luxury and kors is positioning itself now as the luxury version of the european conglomerate verses tapestry which is a little bit lower price point their brands right now, coach and kate spade >> 43.5 in cash. >> yes >> these are big. >> i toldtally agree with sara. that worked when they're able toll get calvin klein under the same group as tommy hilfigure. sonic can have a big move last quarter. i got to tell you, these kinds of deals inspired brands these are the kind of deals that make you say wait a second, i don't know if i want to sell stocks i don't want to sell stocks and f forgetting of this kind of take over for a company that's frankly not 22 not that long ago. >> what a home run >> there is always that but you know jim, it only takes a few minutes for people to come back with heighten corpor

in an exclusive with one of kate spade's closest friends sharing intimate details about the fashion designer's struggle. her powerful message for us this morning. is it time to break up with your cell phone? wait until you see what happens after dan harris does a seven-day detox. we're going to give you tips all coming up on "gma." really hard to do. >> i know. >> oh, yeah. i've tried to break up with my cell phone many times and i keep goig back. >> do you break up with it on a vacation? >> like that bad, bad boyfr yes. i've done it on vacation and tried to at least. definitely better on vacation. >> yeah. >> that's when we have a little hiatus and then make up and get back together again. >> exactly. >> the cycle continues. >> it's when you don't have responsibilities it's easier s easier. >> thanks. >> bye. >> uber making changes to protect your privacy and keep you safe. what you can see and not see in the next few months. >>> in the north bay a new report points out a big problem that should be saving people money on car insurance. ♪ ♪ ♪ i put a spell on you ♪ yeah, because you're mine ♪

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brand acquisitions buying both american-born brand stuart weitzman and kate spade whereas versace woulde second international purchase. >> we also want to ask about the sears news today the ceo sort of sending a flare. >> that's right. this is a very different story than thestory. so basically eddie lampert is trying hard to avoid bankruptcy. however the stated goal is to return to profitability. that's interesting way to put it seeing as it's been a long time since they have seen that. most agree sears has been in a state of restructuring for years as stores have been sold off eddie lampert and his hedge fund have gone through many financial engineering maneuvers to keep the company running. however lampert personally owns 31% of the shares. the hedge fund he runs owns 19%. the lateste efst development isn effort to lower sears 5$5.6 billion in debt to 1.24 billion. here's the proposal it suggests selling off 1.$1.75 billion in assets, like the kenmore brand, sears home services, then selling another 1.5 billion in real estate, this would be stores, and they would be leased back to sea

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