Husband Of Late Kate Spade Honors Her Memory By Talking About Perfectionism And Suicide

Mental health is a very sensitive subject that affects a lot of people. Specifically, suicide is not a topic that gets talked about enough, but the fact is that there are lots of individuals who have suicidal thoughts and are considering taking their own lives. They need our support.

Entrepreneur Andrew Spade posted a touching message on Instagram and reached out to anyone and everyone who’s in an incredibly tough situation, like his wife Kate had been. Fashion designer Kate Spade killed herself on June 5, 2018, when she was 55. She would have been 57 years old on Christmas Eve, 2019.

As part of the post honoring his wife’s memory, Andrew shared a picture of his and Kate’s daughter and talked about being kind to one another, as well as how perfectionism can be detrimental to mental health and can lead to heart-breaking decisions.

Fashion designer Kate Spade’s husband Andrew posted a tribute to her and talked about mental health, perfectionism, and suicide

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Andrew posted a picture of their daughter…

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…and wrote how honesty, not perfection, is the goal

Andrew and Kate launched her designer brand in 1993 and got married a year after that. Kate’s husband Andrew had this to say after his wife’s death: “Kate suffered from depression and anxiety for many years. She was actively seeking help and working closely with her doctors to treat her disease, one that takes far too many lives.”

According to Andrew, Kate taking her life came as a shock to him: “We were in touch with her the night before and she sounded happy. There was no indication and no warning that she would do this. It was a complete shock. And it clearly wasn’t her. There were personal demons she was battling.”

There are many factors linked to suicidal thoughts, and perfectionism is one of them. According to one study, the pressure to be perfect (whether that pressure is self-made or thrust onto our shoulders by those around us) makes a person more likely to think about taking their own life. This raises the issue that perfectionism as a trait may do much more harm than good.

People thought that Andrew’s post was incredibly important and helpful

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Green ceramic tiles cover extension of a house in rural China

Wonder Architects have used pale green ceramic tiles to clad a house extension in Yangqing, China, that mirrors the form of its traditional neighbours.

Called Intertwine House, the building closely resembles the dimensions and pitched roofs of the village's existing houses, so old and modern architecture sit side by side.

Wonder Architects said they wanted to explore how China's rural areas can respond to urban renewal without erasing their existing architecture.

"The [original] house, built in the 1980s was originally used as a wedding room," said  Wonder Architects.

"Even if it has been ruined, it still exudes the happiness of that time, and accepts long bits of wear and tear over the years."

The new building is a formally distinct volume, built on a former yard space, that links to the existing house both via a "cave-like" internal corridor and an upper-level terrace framed by sloping walls.

Intertwine House's contemporary ceramic finish meets the old brickwork and wooden structure of the original building in lines that run through its walls and roof terrace.

The front door is in open cut in the home's eastern end, which provides a direct route into the central yard.

Access to the extension is through a glazed gable end that sits behind a low section of wall.

Within this new volume, a kitchen and dining area is illuminated by a ground-level strip of windows in the facade and a large skylight.

A small gallery space connects to the original home, which houses bedrooms and bathrooms.

As a further contrast with the wood and brick of the original structure, plain white walls and pale timber floors line the living spaces.

Small sets of stairs that emphasise the changes in level throughout Intertwine House and up to the rood terrace.

Wonder Architects was founded in 2017 by Zhu Qipeng, Wang Chong, and Wang Sidi.

Several architects have worked to restore and extend traditional structures in China.

Fashion designer Sun Min and architect Christian Taeubert recently renovated a traditional cottage in a village outside Beijing, emphasising its original wooden roof, and MAD added a series of mirrored bubble-like extensions to a traditional Beijing hutong.

Photography is Yumeng Zhu.

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Project credits:

Design corporation: Wonder Architects
Architectural design: Chong Wang
Shop drawing: Chong Wang, Tailin Jin
Structural Engineer: Xuemei Gao

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These Artists Illustrated How Downsizing Can Actually Be Good For You

The Woke Salaryman is a comic series started by two friends, Goh Wei Choon and He Ruiming. The two had been friends during their study days but grew apart after graduating. Eventually they reconnected again after becoming colleagues and decided to make the most out of their rekindled friendship by starting the comic series.

In an interview with Bored Panda, the artists said they noticed how many of their peers were recklessly spending their money. “Some of them were in their 30s with very little savings. We found that scary, and wanted to trigger the young folks in our country to better their financial decisions and lives in general,” said the artists. “Along the way, audiences from other countries started to pick up on our page.”

In one of their most recent comics, Goh and He illustrated how downsizing could lead to a better life and the comic is truly eye-opening. Check it out below!

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The artists live in Singapore and say it’s one of the most materialistic and consumeristic on the planet. “Often, people get into meaningless competitions to see who can display more material wealth. This isn’t always good for people’s financial stability,” said the duo. They say they managed to save quite a bit of money by resisting peer pressure and living below their means. “We thought if people could see that doing this had its benefits, they’d be more open to trying this out,” explained the artists.

However, not everyone agreed with the duo’s message

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