Archive · 6 Nov 2025
Rachel Brosnahan to Direct Documentary on Aunt Kate Spade
Rachel Brosnahan, an actress famous for playing Mrs. Maisel, is going to direct her first big movie.
This movie will be a documentary about her aunt, Kate Spade.
Kate Spade was a very famous fashion designer who created the popular brand Kate Spade New York.
She started with just a few purses and turned it into a huge company that sold clothes and home goods too.
Rachel wants to tell her aunt's story because she was a big inspiration.
The movie will be made by special companies that help create films.
Rachel will also help produce it, meaning she’ll be involved in making the movie happen.
Rachel Brosnahan will direct a documentary about her aunt, fashion designer Kate Spade.
The documentary is produced by Brosnahan's company, Scrap Paper Pictures, in partnership with Highly Flammable and Words + Pictures.
Kate Spade, born in 1962, co-founded Kate Spade New York in 1993 and built it into a global lifestyle brand.
Spade sold her company in stages and tragically died by suicide in 2018.
Brosnahan has a production banner, Scrap Paper Pictures, with prior credits in theater and film.
- Who
- Rachel Brosnahan, Kate Spade
- What
- Rachel Brosnahan is making her feature directorial debut with a documentary about her fashion icon aunt, Kate Spade.
- When
- Not specified in the article, but Brosnahan's acting career is also mentioned with recent and upcoming projects.
- Where
- Not specified in the article.
- Why
- To explore the life and legacy of Kate Spade, a fashion icon and entrepreneur.
- Director
- Rachel Brosnahan
- Subject
- Kate Spade
- Production Companies
- Scrap Paper Pictures, Highly Flammable, Words + Pictures
- Producers
- Rachel Brosnahan, Jessie Jennison, Russell Kahn, Connor Schell
- Executive Producers
- Fisher Stevens, Maura Anderson, Zak Kilberg, Libby Geist, Alexa Conway, Andy Spade
- Kate Spade's Birth Year
- 1962
- Kate Spade New York Founded
- 1993
- Kate Spade's Death Year
- 2018