As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 27, 2009
                                                      Registration No. 333-_____
================================================================================

                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                             Washington, D.C. 20549

                                    FORM S-8
                             REGISTRATION STATEMENT
                        UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

                         KENNETH COLE PRODUCTIONS, INC.
             (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)


       New York                                                 13-3131650
(State or other jurisdiction                                 (I.R.S. Employer
of incorporation or organization)                             Identification
                                                                  Number)
                              603 West 50th Street
                            New York, New York 10019
          (Address, including zip code, of principal executive offices)

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
            Kenneth Cole Productions, Inc. 2004 Stock Incentive Plan
                            (Full title of the plan)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------


                                David P. Edelman
                             Chief Financial Officer
                         Kenneth Cole Productions, Inc.
                              603 West 50th Street
                            New York, New York 10019
                                 (212) 265-1500
 (Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code,
                             of agent for service)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

                                    Copy to:
                             Steven A. Seidman, Esq.
                          Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP
                               787 Seventh Avenue
                          New York, New York 10019-6099
                                 (212) 728-8000

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<table>
<caption>

                                        CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
========================= ======================= ======================== ====================== =====================
                                                      Proposed maximum        Proposed maximum
 Title of securities to         Amount to be         offering price per      aggregate offering         Amount of
     be registered             registered (1)             share (2)               price (2)          registration fee
------------------------- ----------------------- ------------------------ ---------------------- ---------------------
<s>                             <c>                     <c>                     <c>                 <c>
Class A Common Stock,           3,000,000                  $7.58                $22,740,000            $1,268.89
$0.01 par value per
share
========================= ======================= ======================== ====================== =====================
</table>

(1)      This Registration Statement covers 3,000,000 additional shares of the
         Class A Common Stock, $0.01 par value per share (the "Common Stock"),
         of Kenneth Cole Productions, Inc. (the "Company") authorized to be
         offered and sold pursuant to the Kenneth Cole Productions, Inc. 2004
         Stock Incentive Plan (the "Plan"). In addition, this Registration
         Statement covers an indeterminable number of additional shares of
         Common Stock as may hereafter be offered or issued pursuant to the Plan
         to prevent dilution resulting from stock splits, stock dividends or
         similar transactions effected without the receipt of consideration and
         pursuant to Rule 416(c) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended
         (the "Securities Act").
(2)      Estimated solely for calculating the amount of the registration fee,
         pursuant to paragraphs (c) and (h) of Rule 457 under the Securities
         Act.


<PAGE>




                                Explanatory Note

     This Registration Statement on Form S-8, which incorporates by reference
the Registrant's previous Registration Statements on Form S-8 (Nos. 333-119101
and 333-131724), is being filed by the Registrant solely to register additional
securities issuable pursuant to its 2004 Stock Incentive Plan. Accordingly, this
Registration Statement consists only of those items required by General
Instruction E to Form S-8.



<PAGE>


                                     PART II

                           INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE
                             REGISTRATION STATEMENT


Item 3.           INCORPORATION OF CERTAIN DOCUMENTS BY REFERENCE

     The following documents, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission
(the "Commission") by Kenneth Cole Productions, Inc., a New York corporation
(the "Company"), are incorporated by reference into the Registration Statement:

          (a) The Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended
     December 31, 2008, filed pursuant to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,
     as amended (the "Exchange Act");

          (b) The Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter
     ended March 31, 2009, filed pursuant to the Exchange Act;

          (c) The Company's Current Reports on Form 8-K, filed on March 2, 2009,
     March 12, 2009, April 16, 2009 and May 15, 2009, respectively (but only to
     the extent that the information therein is filed and not merely furnished),
     pursuant to the Exchange Act;

          (d) The Company's Registration Statements on Form S-8, Registration
     Nos. 333-119101 and 333-131724, filed on September 17, 2004 and February
     10, 2006, respectively, pursuant to the Exchange Act; and

          (e) The description of the Common Stock, which is incorporated by
     reference into the Company's Registration Statement on Form 8-A, filed on
     May 18, 1994, pursuant to the Exchange Act, and contained in the Company's
     Registration Statement on Form S-1, under the caption "DESCRIPTION OF
     CAPITAL STOCK," Registration No. 33-77636, filed on April 13, 1994,
     pursuant to the Securities Act.

     In addition, all documents filed by the Company with the Commission
pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act subsequent
to the date of this Registration Statement and prior to the filing of a
post-effective amendment which indicates that all the securities offered hereby
have been sold or which deregisters all securities then remaining unsold shall
be deemed to be incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement and to
be a part hereof from the date of the filing of such documents with the
Commission. Any statement contained in a document incorporated by reference
herein shall be deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes hereof to the
extent that a statement contained herein (or in any other subsequently filed
document which also is incorporated by reference herein) modifies or supersedes
such statement. Any statement so modified or superseded shall not be deemed to
constitute a part hereof except as so modified or superseded.

Item 8.   EXHIBITS

Exhibit No.     Description of Exhibits
-----------     -----------------------

      5         Opinion of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP.

     23.1       Consent of Ernst & Young LLP.

     23.2       Consent of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP (included in Exhibit 5).

     24         Power of Attorney (reference is made to the signature page).




<PAGE>

                                   SIGNATURES

     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, the Company certifies
that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements
for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be
signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized on the 26th
day of May 2009.



                                       KENNETH COLE PRODUCTIONS, INC.



                                       By:  /s/ Jill Granoff
                                           -------------------------------------
                                            Jill Granoff
                                            Chief Executive Officer




<PAGE>


                                POWER OF ATTORNEY

     Each of the undersigned officers and directors of Kenneth Cole Productions,
Inc. hereby severally constitutes and appoints Jill Granoff and David P.
Edelman, and each of them, with full power to act without the other, as his true
and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent for the undersigned, with full power of
substitution and resubstitution, for him and in his name, place and stead, in
any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments to this Registration
Statement, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents
in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting
unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and
authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary
to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he
might or could do in person, thereby ratifying and confirming all that each said
attorney-in-fact and agent, or his substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or
cause to be done by virtue hereof.

     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended,
this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the
capacities and on the dates indicated:

<table>
<caption>

                   Name                                Title                             Date
                   ----                                -----                             ----

<s>                                          <c>                                     <c>
By:   /s/ Kenneth D. Cole                    Chairman of the Board and Chief         May 26, 2009
      ----------------------------------     Creative Officer
          Kenneth D. Cole


By:   /s/ Jill Granoff                       Chief Executive Officer                 May 26, 2009
      ----------------------------------     (principal executive officer)
          Jill Granoff


By:   /s/ David P. Edelman                   Chief Financial Officer                 May 26, 2009
      ----------------------------------     (principal financial and accounting
          David P. Edelman                   officer)


By:   /s/ Martin Franklin                    Director                                May 27, 2009
      ----------------------------------
         Martin Franklin


By:   /s/ Robert C. Grayson                  Director                                May 26, 2009
      ----------------------------------
         Robert C. Grayson


By:   /s/ Denis F. Kelly                     Director                                May 26, 2009
      ----------------------------------
        Denis F. Kelly


By:                                          Director                                May 26, 2009
      ----------------------------------
         Philip R. Peller
</table>

<PAGE>


                                INDEX TO EXHIBITS



Exhibit No.     Description of Exhibit
-----------     ----------------------

      5         Opinion of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP.

     23.1       Consent of Ernst & Young LLP.

     23.2       Consent of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP (included in Exhibit 5).

     24         Power of Attorney (reference is made to the signature page).
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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 27, 2009
                                                      Registration No. 333-_____
================================================================================

                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                             Washington, D.C. 20549

                                    FORM S-8
                             REGISTRATION STATEMENT
                        UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

                         KENNETH COLE PRODUCTIONS, INC.
             (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

       New York                                                 13-3131650
(State or other jurisdiction                                 (I.R.S. Employer
of incorporation or organization)                             Identification
                                                                  Number)
                              603 West 50th Street
                            New York, New York 10019
          (Address, including zip code, of principal executive offices)

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
            Kenneth Cole Productions, Inc. 2004 Stock Incentive Plan
                            (Full title of the plan)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

                                David P. Edelman
                             Chief Financial Officer
                         Kenneth Cole Productions, Inc.
                              603 West 50th Street
                            New York, New York 10019
                                 (212) 265-1500
 (Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code,
                             of agent for service)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

                                    Copy to:
                             Steven A. Seidman, Esq.
                          Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP
                               787 Seventh Avenue
                          New York, New York 10019-6099
                                 (212) 728-8000

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
========================= ======================= ======================== ====================== =====================
                                                      Proposed maximum        Proposed maximum
 Title of securities to         Amount to be         offering price per      aggregate offering         Amount of
     be registered             registered (1)             share (2)               price (2)          registration fee
------------------------- ----------------------- ------------------------ ---------------------- ---------------------
Class A Common Stock,           3,000,000                  $7.58                $22,740,000            $1,268.89
$0.01 par value per
share
========================= ======================= ======================== ====================== =====================
(1)      This Registration Statement covers 3,000,000 additional shares of the
         Class A Common Stock, $0.01 par value per share (the "Common Stock"),
         of Kenneth Cole Productions, Inc. (the "Company") authorized to be
         offered and sold pursuant to the Kenneth Cole Productions, Inc. 2004
         Stock Incentive Plan (the "Plan"). In addition, this Registration
         Statement covers an indeterminable number of additional shares of
         Common Stock as may hereafter be offered or issued pursuant to the Plan
         to prevent dilution resulting from stock splits, stock dividends or
         similar transactions effected without the receipt of consideration and
         pursuant to Rule 416(c) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended
         (the "Securities Act").
(2)      Estimated solely for calculating the amount of the registration fee,
         pursuant to paragraphs (c) and (h) of Rule 457 under the Securities
         Act.
Explanatory Note

     This Registration Statement on Form S-8, which incorporates by reference
the Registrant's previous Registration Statements on Form S-8 (Nos. 333-119101
and 333-131724), is being filed by the Registrant solely to register additional
securities issuable pursuant to its 2004 Stock Incentive Plan. Accordingly, this
Registration Statement consists only of those items required by General
Instruction E to Form S-8.
PART II

                           INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE
                             REGISTRATION STATEMENT

Item 3.           INCORPORATION OF CERTAIN DOCUMENTS BY REFERENCE

     The following documents, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission
(the "Commission") by Kenneth Cole Productions, Inc., a New York corporation
(the "Company"), are incorporated by reference into the Registration Statement:

          (a) The Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended
     December 31, 2008, filed pursuant to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,
     as amended (the "Exchange Act");

          (b) The Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter
     ended March 31, 2009, filed pursuant to the Exchange Act;

          (c) The Company's Current Reports on Form 8-K, filed on March 2, 2009,
     March 12, 2009, April 16, 2009 and May 15, 2009, respectively (but only to
     the extent that the information therein is filed and not merely furnished),
     pursuant to the Exchange Act;

          (d) The Company's Registration Statements on Form S-8, Registration
     Nos. 333-119101 and 333-131724, filed on September 17, 2004 and February
     10, 2006, respectively, pursuant to the Exchange Act; and

          (e) The description of the Common Stock, which is incorporated by
     reference into the Company's Registration Statement on Form 8-A, filed on
     May 18, 1994, pursuant to the Exchange Act, and contained in the Company's
     Registration Statement on Form S-1, under the caption "DESCRIPTION OF
     CAPITAL STOCK," Registration No. 33-77636, filed on April 13, 1994,
     pursuant to the Securities Act.

     In addition, all documents filed by the Company with the Commission
pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act subsequent
to the date of this Registration Statement and prior to the filing of a
post-effective amendment which indicates that all the securities offered hereby
have been sold or which deregisters all securities then remaining unsold shall
be deemed to be incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement and to
be a part hereof from the date of the filing of such documents with the
Commission. Any statement contained in a document incorporated by reference
herein shall be deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes hereof to the
extent that a statement contained herein (or in any other subsequently filed
document which also is incorporated by reference herein) modifies or supersedes
such statement. Any statement so modified or superseded shall not be deemed to
constitute a part hereof except as so modified or superseded.

Item 8.   EXHIBITS

Exhibit No.     Description of Exhibits
-----------     -----------------------

      5         Opinion of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP.

     23.1       Consent of Ernst & Young LLP.

     23.2       Consent of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP (included in Exhibit 5).

     24         Power of Attorney (reference is made to the signature page).
SIGNATURES

     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, the Company certifies
that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements
for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be
signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized on the 26th
day of May 2009.

                                       KENNETH COLE PRODUCTIONS, INC.

                                       By:  /s/ Jill Granoff
                                           -------------------------------------
                                            Jill Granoff
                                            Chief Executive Officer
POWER OF ATTORNEY

     Each of the undersigned officers and directors of Kenneth Cole Productions,
Inc. hereby severally constitutes and appoints Jill Granoff and David P.
Edelman, and each of them, with full power to act without the other, as his true
and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent for the undersigned, with full power of
substitution and resubstitution, for him and in his name, place and stead, in
any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments to this Registration
Statement, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents
in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting
unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and
authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary
to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he
might or could do in person, thereby ratifying and confirming all that each said
attorney-in-fact and agent, or his substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or
cause to be done by virtue hereof.

     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended,
this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the
capacities and on the dates indicated:
Name                                Title                             Date
                   ----                                -----                             ----
By:   /s/ Kenneth D. Cole                    Chairman of the Board and Chief         May 26, 2009
      ----------------------------------     Creative Officer
          Kenneth D. Cole

By:   /s/ Jill Granoff                       Chief Executive Officer                 May 26, 2009
      ----------------------------------     (principal executive officer)
          Jill Granoff

By:   /s/ David P. Edelman                   Chief Financial Officer                 May 26, 2009
      ----------------------------------     (principal financial and accounting
          David P. Edelman                   officer)

By:   /s/ Martin Franklin                    Director                                May 27, 2009
      ----------------------------------
         Martin Franklin

By:   /s/ Robert C. Grayson                  Director                                May 26, 2009
      ----------------------------------
         Robert C. Grayson

By:   /s/ Denis F. Kelly                     Director                                May 26, 2009
      ----------------------------------
        Denis F. Kelly

By:                                          Director                                May 26, 2009
      ----------------------------------
         Philip R. Peller
INDEX TO EXHIBITS

Exhibit No.     Description of Exhibit
-----------     ----------------------

      5         Opinion of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP.

     23.1       Consent of Ernst & Young LLP.

     23.2       Consent of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP (included in Exhibit 5).

     24         Power of Attorney (reference is made to the signature page).