The Bride Wore Kate Spade

Ten days before her favorite designer died, one woman got married in (two pairs of) her shoes.

- Trupti Rami

WITH WHAT I DO EVERY DAY—I’ve been in the Army for the past five years—I don’t get a chance to feel feminine. But it’s always been my thing that as soon as the weekend comes, I put in my pearl earrings and get out my Kate Spade purse. People say, “Oh, there goes Octavia in her civilians.” My attraction to Kate Spade started in my senior year of college: the bright colors of the bags, the texture of the leather. The purses my mother carried were always black and subdued; these were something different—like, you can be an adult but still have personality. I could still shine through. When I graduated, I saved up to buy my first grown-up wallet, in kelly-green ostrich leather by Kate Spade.