Book Talk: Elyce Arons, Author Of We Just Might Make It After All: My Best Friendship With Kate Spade, In Conversation With Simon Doonan
Arts & Entertainment
share
August 9, 2025 04:00 PM
Until August 9, 2025, 05:30 PM 1h 30m

Book Talk: Elyce Arons, Author Of We Just Might Make It After All: My Best Friendship With Kate Spade, In Conversation With Simon Doonan

The Church

The Church is thrilled to welcome Elyce Arons, fashion entrepreneur, style icon, business mogul, and NY Times best-selling author, to discuss her newly released memoir, We Might Just Make It After All: My Best Friendship with Kate Spade. Arons, who launched both Kate Spade and Frances Valentine with her best friend of 40 years, “Katy” Spade, will be interviewed by fashion icon Simon Doonan, with audience questions to follow.

Arons takes readers on a thoughtful and moving journey of friendship and sisterhood to weave together the coming-of-age story of two best friends and their new line of handbags that revolutionized the fashion accessories industry in 1990’s New York City.

Books will be available for purchase and can be signed by the author after the event.

Released June 17th, 2025, the memoir chronicles the powerful forty-year relationship, until Kate’s death in 2018. A celebration of Kate’s legacy as a cultural icon and loyal friend, the book takes readers into a deep dive into resiliency, perseverance, and what it takes to achieve success as a female entrepreneur while exploring the profundity in love and loss.

LEARN MORE
Scan QR Code

Book Talk: Elyce Arons, Author Of We Just Might Make It After All: My Best Friendship With Kate Spade, In Conversation With Simon Doonan

Book Talk: Elyce Arons, Author Of We Just Might Make It After All: My Best Friendship With Kate Spade, In Conversation With Simon Doonan
Arts & Entertainment
share
August 9, 2025 04:00 PM
Until August 9, 2025, 05:30 PM 1h 30m

Book Talk: Elyce Arons, Author Of We Just Might Make It After All: My Best Friendship With Kate Spade, In Conversation With Simon Doonan

The Church

The Church is thrilled to welcome Elyce Arons, fashion entrepreneur, style icon, business mogul, and NY Times best-selling author, to discuss her newly released memoir, We Might Just Make It After All: My Best Friendship with Kate Spade. Arons, who launched both Kate Spade and Frances Valentine with her best friend of 40 years, “Katy” Spade, will be interviewed by fashion icon Simon Doonan, with audience questions to follow.

Arons takes readers on a thoughtful and moving journey of friendship and sisterhood to weave together the coming-of-age story of two best friends and their new line of handbags that revolutionized the fashion accessories industry in 1990’s New York City.

Books will be available for purchase and can be signed by the author after the event.

Released June 17th, 2025, the memoir chronicles the powerful forty-year relationship, until Kate’s death in 2018. A celebration of Kate’s legacy as a cultural icon and loyal friend, the book takes readers into a deep dive into resiliency, perseverance, and what it takes to achieve success as a female entrepreneur while exploring the profundity in love and loss.

LEARN MORE
Scan QR Code
Ty Wenzel

Co-Publisher & Contributor

Ty Wenzel, a recent breast cancer survivor, started her career as a fashion coordinator for Bloomingdale’s followed by fashion editor for Cosmopolitan Magazine. She was also a writer for countless publications, including having published a memoir (St. Martin's Press) and written features for The New York Times. She is an award-winning writer and designer who covers lifestyle, real estate, architecture and interiors for James Lane Post. She previously worked as a writer and marketing director for The Independent. She has won multiple PCLI and NYPA awards for journalism, social media and design, including best website design and best magazine for James Lane Post, which she co-founded in 2020. Wenzel is also a co-founder of the meditation app for kids, DreamyKid, and the Hamptons social media agency, TWM Hamptons Social Media.

An East End Experience

2024 © James Lane Post®. All Rights Reserved.

Covering North Fork and Hamptons Events, Hamptons Arts, Hamptons Entertainment, Hamptons Dining, and Hamptons Real Estate. Hamptons Lifestyle Magazine with things to do in the Hamptons and the North Fork.