Kate Boutique
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Kate Boutique
brandhabit's interview with
Kate Boutique

Q: What one word best describes your store?
A: Inviting!

Q: What three words best describes your customer?
A: Classic, chic, imaginative

Q: What makes your store different from the rest?
A: Kate carries more obscure designers - classic lines with a modern twist

Q: Name one person you would love to dress:
A: Nicole Kidman

Q: What article of clothing have you kept forever and why?
A: Antique cotton and lace blouses. They can be worn dressed up or down, and can create a feminine or more tomboyish look

Q: Finish the following sentence: In fashion, it is most important to be...
A: Aware of your body type and look to enhance your physical assets

Q: If you did not pursue a retail career, what would you be doing?
A: Interior design

Q: What is your current fashion fixation/fetish?
A: Golden Goose boots. Handcrafted in Italy, they are new, but made to look old

Kate McMahon knows the secret to living a beautiful life.

Radiating an enviable comfort in her own skin, Kate’s gorgeous confidence and her earthy-meets-elegant charm comes through in every detail of the exquisite clothing and accessories she chooses, in addition to her own designs, for Kate Boutique (kateboutique.com), her gem of a boutique opened in 2001 in Santa Barbara, California. A Santa Barbara native who “grew up at the beach,” the former Ford model and onetime knitwear designer artfully mixes being a mom and wife with a lifelong passion for clothing. Offering well-edited luxury basics and chic, comfortable classics with intriguing design twists, Kate has achieved the status of stylemaker in her sophisticated beach community and beyond.

According to Kate, “Clothing – designing it, making it, and wearing it have been passions of mine since childhood. Learning the basics of sewing and knitting from my mother, I quickly began to design and make my own clothing. In 1985 I started a handknit sweater company that catered to specialty boutiques around the country. After fifteen years of manufacturing, I finally decided to follow my next desire: to have my own boutique. Kate Boutique has evolved into a destination shop for the woman who appreciates a unique and special experience, and attracts those who are sophisticated, elegant, self-assured and understated, yet imaginative and playful.”

With a stylist’s keen eye, Kate caters to both local devotees and celebs as well as international visitors and Web shoppers (launched in August 2006, kateboutique.com was named one of Lucky Magazine’s “amazingly cool sites we can’t stop logging on to” for great web shopping), encouraging stylish self-expression with modern takes on impeccably constructed classic pieces in luxurious materials. Kate Boutique’s sumptuous selection enables every woman to find the things she needs to feel beautiful and confident, exuding an easy, low maintenance glamour and an earthy elegance.
Kate Boutique in the News
http://www.kateboutique.com/Public/AboutUs/Press/index.cfm
Kate Boutique Press Kit
http://www.kateboutique.com/Public/AboutUs/Press/index.cfm
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