Kate Spade Opens London Pop-Up Shop

Today Kate Spade opened a pop-up shop in London's Covent Garden. The shop, located at 7 Henrietta St. will be open through Nov. 10th and feature the entire Kate Spade collection of handbags, luggage, shoes, jewelry, stationery, eyewear, apparel, artwork and furnishings. “It’s a new market for us,” Craig Leavitt, Kate Spade CEO told Women's Wear Daily, “We wanted to take the opportunity in advance of opening a regular store to get the product in front of the consumer and the opinion leaders in the marketplace.” The company hopes to have a permanent location open in London by sometime next spring/early summer.