Kravis pushing to buy Jones Group

Henry Kravis has developed a shﷺoe fetish, and he’s looking𓆏 to fill his closet pronto.

The New York billionaire’s buyout firm, KKR, is pushing, along with a partner to cut a deal as soon as this week to buy Jones Group, the Seve💟nth Avenue stronghold that owns labels like Stuart Weitzman, Nine West and Anne Klein, The Post has learned.

That would mean putting a quick end to an auction being run by Citigroup that has attracted bids from several buyout shops looking to divvy up the company, including L𝔉eonard Green & Partners, Sun Capital and Golden Gate Capital, sources said.

“The goal is to have it wrapped up before the deadline” for second-round bids, according to a sourꦅce close to the process, noting that the deadline is this week.

The size of KKR’s bid, being made jointly with the buyout firm Sycamore Partners, couldn’t immediately be learned. Investors 💖have speculated that Jones could fetch between $17 and $18 a share.

Jones shares Monday lost ꧒52 cents, or 3.2 percent, to close at $15.68, giving the company a market value of $1.15 billion.

Representatives ꦐfor KKR and Sycamore dec♌lined to comment.

KKR covets Jones’s fast-growing footwear brands, including Kurt Geiger a𝓀nd Brian Atwood, according to insiders briefed on the auction.

Sycamore is circling Jones’s aging wꦐomen’s-apparel brands, including Anne Klein, Gloria Vanderbilt and l.e.i., sources 𓆉said.

“KKR basically wants the good stuff,💛 and Sycamore wants the not-so-good stuff,” according to one banking source.

Sycamore, whose co-founder Stefan Kaluzny has lately cut deals to buy struggling retailers Hot Topic and Talbots, also owns Mast G🉐lobal, a women’s apparel manufactu꧅rer formerly owned by Limited Brands.