Ulta Beauty Inc. has yanked an e-mail advertisement that many customers said referenced the suicide of the late designer Kate Spade.
"Come hang with Kate Spade" was the e-mail subject line customers recently received in their inboxes. The beauty supply chain store was promoting some of Spade’s fragrances. in her Park Avenue apartment in June 2018 in an apparent suicide, police said. She was 55. A housekeeper discovered Spade’s body hanging in her bedroom, police said.
"Ulta Beauty recently sent an email featuring kate spade new york fragrance with an insensitive subject line and for this, we sincerely apologize," the company said in a statement to FOX Television Stations. "Mental health is a very serious, important issue in this country, and not something we would ever take lightly. We apologize to the Spade family, our kate spade new york brand partners and to our guests. Thank you for understanding as we strive to do better.", 21% of U.
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