Kate Spade is heavily promoting this collaboration with Florence Broadhurst around the city.

Florence Broadhurst was an Australian wallpaper designer who was the toast of her country in the ’60s-’70s for these very bold, oversized-motif hand-printed wallpapers. A lot of them were printed on reflective Mylar in super-aggressive jarringly bright inks. I like a lot of her prints, but I can imagine achieving instant insanity being in a room papered with them.

Four years ago this book on her life, her art and her celebrity came out, bringing her back (or newly) to the attention of the world. She was, at best, a woman who re-invented herself shamelessly and was a spinner of yarns; at worst, a grifter and a fraud who stole from her employees. She also may have been murdered by Australia’s first serial killer.

I can’t imagine any of that really factors into Kate Spade’s “girl group inspired” spring line, but I think it’s interesting.