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See what people are saying about Everpurse! Check out a handful of the articles written about our patented fashion tech and interviews with CEO Liz Salcedo.

How Kate Spade and Everpurse Got Wearable Tech Right

"Everpurse for Kate Spade is a line of self-charging purses that boasts a minimal design for both the bags itself and its accessories. It has also become a blazing success since it’s 2015 fall launch."

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Kate Spade Partners With Startup Everpurse to Sell iPhone-Charging Bags

"Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer Mary Beech said Kate Spade & Co. is 'committed to digital innovation,' and designing for 'customers who live a life on-the-go.'... Instead of wrapping a designer skin around existing consumer electronics, Everpurse cofounder and Chief Executive Liz Salcedo said, Kate Spade and Everpurse codeveloped the new collection of bags."

Kate Spade (KATE) Stock Higher Following Partnership With Startup Everpurse

"Shares of Kate Spade & Co (KATE) are trading higher by 0.76% to $27.70 on heavy volume late afternoon Monday, following the company's partnership with startup Everpurse to create a new collection of Apple (AAPL) iPhone charging bags, according to The Wall Street Journal."

Kate Spade's New Purse is Everything Your Phone Needs

"An integration of technology and fashion that will actually make your life easier, not something shiny-but-impractical like covering a purse in multi-colored LEDs."

Everpurse Founder And CEO Liz Salcedo Talks Fashion Tech And Kate Spade [Exclusive Interview]

" Because our technology is modular, [the brand has] lots of freedom to design the bags they want. We believe that the beautiful design of the bag should always come first."

Powering Up Handbags for Battery-Drained Devices

“It does not matter how advanced the tech features may be, if the product does not look good and feels natural, it will not succeed. This is, of course, not a limiting factor but more of a guiding principle.”

EverPurse Raises Seed Round For A Different Kind Of Wearable

“If you look at how technology is becoming an integral part of our life — and the fact that fashion always has been — bringing those two worlds together means there’s so much that can happen.”

How a Former Social Worker Took a Nights-and-Weekends Hobby and Turned It Into a Tech Startup

"What Everpurse does differently is bring wireless, sleek technology to a fashion brand."

Kate Spade’s CMO Talks Phone-Charging Purses

"Everpurse was great to work with because they respected our design. It's a Kate Spade handbag with technology as an additive ingredient, not a technology-led bag that looked like technology."

FINALLY: Purses, Handbags, and Clutches That Charge Your Cell Phone!

"Now you don't need to carry around a bulky extra battery pack—and you won't need to hunt for a Starbucks outlet midday."

Kate Spade is Diversifying Beyond Handbags and It's Working

"Over the fourth quarter, net sales increased 8 percent to $428 million, driven by strong demand for novelty items, its Everpurse collaboration and its buy online/pick up in-store offerings over the holidays."

Everpurse Patents Phone-Charging System For Purses and More

"Now it has the rights to a "personal wireless charging system" that covers any "personal storage item" with a storage location that "includes sidewalls and a lower wall" — also known as a pocket — and a wireless induction charger."

Fashion Meets Tech:

This 20-Something Is Reinventing The Way You Charge Your Phone

"Liz Salcedo isn't a designer or coder. But this 29-year-old founder of Everpurse is putting technology into fashion accessories to address our pain points, starting with keeping our mobile phones charged."

6 All-Day Bags That Will Make Your Life 1,000 Times Easier

"OK, this purse charges your phone for you. I repeat. It charges your phone for you!... It also translates well to a lot of after-work looks. Um, and it charges your phone."

13 Techie Gifts For Moms

"Kate Spade is one of the most popular accessory deigners in the world, loved for her clean lines that are a hat tip to mid-20th century modernism. These bags and pouches literally super charge that aesthetic: teaming up with Everpurse, they incorporate iPhone chargers and, in the handbag, a wireless charging mat to charge the bag itself."