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AI is now part of Coach and Kate Spade designers’ workflow

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Coach and Kate Spade designers have added AI to their design workflow.

On a Thursday earnings call, CEO Joanne Crevoiserat was asked how and where Tapestry is investing in AI.

She answered that Coach and Kate Spade’s designers now use AI in their day-to-day work, but the design process starts with hand-drawn sketches.

“So there is still a human and a need for design eye, right,” Crevoiserat said. “They do a sketch. But what AI helps is they can iterate on that sketch.”

“They can do color multipliers. They can make design tweaks, much faster than we could in the past,” she added.

She said AI tools have sped up the supply chain and product development timelines, which then drive the company’s growth.

Coach and Kate Spade are both known for their affordable luxury handbags, popular with aspirational luxury shoppers.

Tapestry isn’t the only fashion company that’s invited AI into its design studios.

A designer for the fashion label Alice + Olivia told The Wall Street Journal in January that she sees AI as a “creativity explosion,” and that the brand’s recent collection featured tarot-card-inspired prints generated with AI tools like Leonardo AI and Adobe Firefly.

An IT and tech director for LVMH told the Journal in June that design teams in the French luxury giant are using AI to generate mood boards for inspiration.

Smaller independent designers are also using AI in their processes. Business Insider reported in September that Jasline Ang, a silk designer in Singapore who worked at Goyard and Louis Vuitton, uses ChatGPT and Midjourney to create visuals for her social media campaigns. However, Ang said the tools have not been helpful in her artmaking itself.

Tapestry reported second-quarter revenue of $2.5 billion, a 14% increase from the same period last year. The company’s stock rose more than 10% after the strong earnings. It’s up 95% in the past year.

Coach’s sales contributed heavily to the company’s success in the last quarter, rising about 25% year over year. Crevoiserat said this was driven by Coach’s Tabby handbag collection, which is popular with Gen Z customers, Tapestry’s target audience.

However, Kate Spade reported a 14% drop in revenue in the last quarter compared to last year, to $360 million. Crevoiserat said this was because there had been a deliberate attempt to reduce Kate Spade’s promotional activity.




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Kate Winslet says turning 50 changed how she defines success

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Kate Winslet turned 50 this year and says her definition of success has changed.

Speaking to Newsweek in an interview released on Tuesday, the “Titanic” actor spoke about aging and what it’s been like to reach this milestone in her life.

“I think that women get more interesting as we grow older. I think that we’re more involved in life. We have so much more experience,” Winslet told Newsweek.

She added that turning 50 “feels fantastic” and that she’s looking forward to what the coming years will bring.

“When we grow up, and we think about what we want to be when we’re older, I never imagined any of this,” Winslet said.

As a result, she said she has come to view success in a very different way.

“Success, actually, for me more these days is more about pulling it off, being a decent person. You know, being able to take care of people, having time for friends, also learning how to be OK with not being busy all the time,” she said.

Winslet said there’s value in learning to slow down.

“I think it’s important to remind ourselves that sometimes being OK just in stillness and in our own company,” she said.

She said she doesn’t know how to meditate, but it’s something she should learn.

Winslet isn’t the only Hollywood star who has reflected on how turning 50 has changed her perspective.

During a “Today” show appearance in November 2024, Lauren Sánchez Bezos said she didn’t think she would have so much to look forward to in life after turning 50.

“When I was 20, I thought, ‘Oh my gosh, life is over at 50.’ Let me tell you: It is not, ladies. It is not over,” she said.

In January, Chelsea Handler told Parade that she was feeling “pretty into myself” as she turned 50.

“My life is exactly what I hoped it would be — it’s more than I hoped it would be. I had no idea what the possibilities were or that I could live a life like this and feel so free,” Handler said.




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Kate Winslet says becoming a mother helped save her mental health after ‘Titanic’

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Kate Winslet has a secret to staying sane among the madness of celebrity: motherhood.

“I was very fortunate because I became a mother when I was really young,” Winslet said during an appearance on the podcast “Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso,” which aired Sunday, December 21. “I was, you know, blessed to be taking care of this gorgeous little baby,” she said.

Winslet, 50, had her first child, actor Mia Threapleton, in 2000 when she was 25 years old. She welcomed her eldest son, Joe Anders, 21, in 2003, and her youngest, Bear Blaze Winslet, 12, in 2013.

Caring for her children, two of whom have followed her into the entertainment industry, helped her drown out the outside noise and public scrutiny she has endured over the years, she explained.

When the Hollywood star first became “very famous very quickly,” after starring alongside Leonard DiCaprio in the blockbuster “Titanic” in 1997, her mental health suffered, she said. Winslet, who is English, said she was bodyshamed and “actively bullied” by the British media and that she couldn’t “function like a normal person,” explaining that she would be followed into everyday places like the grocery store.

“I found it quite distressing,” she said.

The actor and director said it made her “really self-critical,” and that there were days when she felt like she “couldn’t face the day,” but being a mother “saved” her.

Winslet is not the only celebrity to cite her kids as a positive force on their mental health. In June, “Mad Max: Fury Road” star Charlize Theron, 49, told the “Call Her Daddy” podcast that adopting her two daughters in 2012 and 2015 was “one of the healthiest decisions” she has ever made. And “Empire State of Mind” singer Alicia Keys has said that motherhood has helped her become more introspective and identify unresolved issues.

Winslet has been on a press tour promoting her directorial debut, “Goodbye June,” which was released in select US and UK theaters on December 12 and will be on Netflix on December 24. The screenplay was written by her son, Anders.

In the interview with podcast host Fragoso, Winslet said that “protecting” herself creatively has also helped her maintain her mental health while living in the public eye.

Since rising to fame in 1997, she said she has only pursued roles that would make her happy.

“I had the good sense to know that I loved acting and that somehow the most important thing in terms of opportunity was only to pursue things that I really want to do,” she said.




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