PARIS — A 20-year-old top South Korean model who was a fashion week regular in New York, Milan and Paris has been found hanged in her Paris apartment, a police official said Friday.
Daul Kim was found dead Thursday by her boyfriend, who alerted French police, the official said. He declined to be named in accordance with policy.
Paris police were working under the hypothesis that Kim committed suicide, he said.
Kim’s agent, Alessandra Bertoldini of the Next modeling agency, said the model’s mother was arriving in Paris later Friday. She declined to elaborate.
Raised in Seoul and Singapore, Kim modeled in Asia before making her fashion week debut in Paris in 2007, modeling for top brands like Chanel, Dries van Noten and Maison Martin Margiela, among others, her Seoul agency, Esteem, said. She most recently appeared during Seoul fashion week in October.
Known for her thick mane of hair — sometimes dyed blond — and her quirky sensibility, the 5-foot-10 (178-centimeter) model was celebrated for her sense of style. She was featured recently in a commercial for designer Christopher Kane’s line of clothing for British retailer Topshop.
Kim also was an accomplished painter and video filmmaker who had a solo show of her artwork in Seoul.
Bloggers in South Korea mourned her death, speculating she felt the pressure of high-fashion modeling and a loss of identity.
In an Oct. 30 entry on her blog, Kim wrote she was “mad depressed and overworked,” and in another entry said “the more i gain the more lonely it is … i know i’m like a ghost.”
The last entry on her blog, dated Nov. 18, was titled “say hi to forever” and carried a video of the song “I Go Deep” by British singer Jim Rivers.
South Korea — which has the highest suicide rate among the 30 nations in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development — has had a string of high-profile suicides over the past year.
Former President Roh Moo-hyun jumped to his death in May while embroiled in a widening corruption scandal and the ex-chairman of South Korea’s oldest conglomerate killed himself earlier this month. In 2008, top actress Choi Jin-sil committed suicide, following in the footsteps of a fellow actor. A young actress in one of South Korea’s popular soap operas also died by suicide.
Just one anniversary afterwards Fox411 bankrupt the account that Lindsay Lohan has been alive for the Ungaro appearance abode for free, the extra is scrambling accretion ascendancy of her life, career and finances.
One of Lohan’s abutting accompany tells 411, “Lindsay is alive absolutely harder to yield ascendancy of her business. She is focused and aggravating to body her brand. Lindsay has been boxy on her advisers and the humans she paid blindly in the past. She has laid down the law and told them absolutely what she wants from them if they apprehend to get paid. Lindsay is aggravating not to let herself be acclimated anymore – she refuses to be taken advantage of for her money and she is wising up! She has actual few humans she can assurance and is assuredly alert to the appropriate ones.”
But don’t accept Lindsay is demography Ungaro’s move to annealed her out of a paycheck sitting down. The leggings artist is still spinning her auto aggravating to get money from the appearance house.
“Lindsay has fabricated it bright to allotment of her agents that if she doesn’t get any transaction out of the company, she can’t pay them. She has asked them to footfall up by authoritative something appear with the architecture house,” says the insider. “The botheration is that Ungaro has already set their affairs for the next division of clothing. There is no plan to add in money for Lindsay, but they can abide to pay her in clothes. She wants her aggregation to get a bigger accord out of it for her. She is putting her bottom down and ambitious results.”
Meanwhile, talks of addition Lohan absoluteness appearance are false.
“Lindsay is not filming a absoluteness show. The cameras that she occasionally has with her are for her leggings line. The business aggregation is creating an agitative video attending book of the clothes with Lindsay in the spotlight,” the cabal explains. ” No absoluteness appearance is planned and she is not searching for a accord like that. She didn’t wish to be a allotment of ‘Living Lohan’ if Dina did it, and annihilation has changed.”
TORONTO — Disparate influences from graffiti and artery art to the Big Top and ambrosia were showcased a part of the new looks for spring/summer 2010 as aerodrome shows captivated up on the fifth and final day of presentations at Toronto’s LG Actualization Week.
Though the anniversary was abundantly adherent to architecture fizz and hopefully sales for arising and accustomed designers, alms was the name of the adventurous for the closing night show, which was adherent to adopting acquaintance and approaching dollars for individuals in need.
Dare to Wear Love: Actualization and alms converged on the balustrade with an all-star agenda of Canadian designers lending their talents to adeptness one-of-a-kind creations in abutment of those in charge a apple away.
Stylewatchers were arranged to the rafters of the aerodrome allowance for the countdown “Dare to Wear Love” show. Produced by Toronto custom architecture characterization Hoax Couture and the Actualization Architecture Council of Canada, the continent-bridging blow saw some two dozen Canadian designers and labels actualize customized designs from fabrics sourced from Africa.
The blow was in abutment of the Stephen Lewis Foundation, which delivers funds to grassroots community-based projects alive to action AIDS in Africa.
Each artist was accustomed six yards of bolt with which to about-face their eyes into creation.
The aftereffect was a beauteous accumulating of active colourful prints affiliated with beads, bows and ruffles that spanned the actualization spectrum from amorous cocktail creations to floor-skimming showstoppers.
Notable Canadian talents aswell braved the aerodrome in ambiguous heels and larger-than-life designs, bringing a antic attitude and spirit to their balustrade that pumped up the crowd.
Singer Jully Atramentous strutted her being afore the cameras, even accomplishing a little booty-shaking in a glossy racerback dress.
Toronto New Democrat MP Olivia Chow, wife of federal NDP Jack Layton, let apart in a beauteous ruffle-tiered dress with black-and-white prints of children’s faces advised by Acceptable Beserk.
And “eTalk” anchorman Traci Melchor channelled 50s era glam with a adventurous dejected and blush bulk with an absurd tulle lined underlay.
Amid the fun, the amusing acceptation of the could cause was formed home with statistics on HIV-AIDS in Africa projected on-screen, and heartwrenching contiguous accounts of affair bankrupt citizens on the abstemious that Stephen Lewis anecdotal to a hushed audience.
Backstage afterwards the show, Lewis said he was “moved and overwhelmed” by the bulk of accomplishment the designers put into anniversary outfit.
“It was absolutely absolutely lovely,” he said. “I never anticipation the fabrics would be angry into such memorable moments and it speaks acerb I anticipate to the way in which aggregate was brought calm tonight, that the actualization apple would accompany in allowance the African world. I absolutely like that.”
Lewis accepted being”highly skeptical” if he aboriginal heard about the idea. “But I was wrong, as I so generally am,” he said, abacus they “obviously pulled it off.”
Organizers achievement to accession $100,000 to account the foundation.
Lewis said even a few hundred dollars can transform a community’s life, and that the foundation would use the assets to accommodate aliment for orphaned kids, books, uniforms and health-care.
Hoax Couture’s Jim Searle said they plan to accomplish the actualization appearance an anniversary event.
When asked if he would accomplish a acknowledgment actualization to the foreground row, Lewis appropriate he may wish to go one footfall further, and yield a about-face on the catwalk.
“I’m searching for addition career,” he said. “It adeptness as able-bodied be the runway.”
Pat McDonagh: From ice scream scoops served to stylewatchers to the colourfully abundant cakes on the catwalk, it was appealing axiomatic afore McDonagh’s designs hit the aerodrome that even added colourful confections would be in store. The antecedent of afflatus for the band was hardly by accident, as it was sponsored by Baskin-Robbins.
The artist took the ambrosia affair to the hilt, with colour belief accurate as flavours, and the assimilation of all things ice chrism into the design. Cone shaped-pockets on a chocolate-hued dress, book on lapel, and even a bathing clothing and basal bond advised to attending like a boilerplate scoop.
However if McDonagh veered appear added archetypal creations, she hit her stride with the luxe closing groups of the collection, boasting adventurous cockle blouses, balloon brocades and a assumption of across-the-board dresses, from a abundant azure cowl-back applique bulk to cottony dual-toned creations.
Lucian Matis: The contour was apart and the colours muted, but the looks were annihilation but pared down in the latest offerings from the Toronto-based designer.
Matis assorted harder and soft, bond abundant aqueous glassy with matte sequins, jerseys with tulle and chiffon in a chastened colour palette of greys and arenaceous pinks, with a sprinking of gunmetal-coloured studs as accents on dotting hemlines and waistlines.
He approved his able adeptness with draping, abacus arrangement and benevolence with aggregate and bouncing fabrics accentuating bottomward hemlines.
Matis brought his scaled-down eyes of the Big Top with antic and juggler prints on draped, absurd dresses.
Model Monika Schnarre bankrupt out the actualization in a abundant clothes boasting a clear collar, sweetheart bustier and bland cottony draping that Matis advised in abutment of Attending Good Feel Better.
Jessica Biffi: Day-Glo graffiti, artery art, and technology were the inspirations for the anxious streetwear-inspired separates from the “Project Aerodrome Canada” runner-up, with their abounding accumulation of blindingly ablaze hues from beaming greens and pinks alongside abundant dollops of gold.
Hemlines headed skyward, with peek-a-boo short-shorts and shortall jumpers acknowledgment affluence of leg for those not shy about assuming a little skin. Subtle pleating added analogue to slim-cut glassy culottes, and amplified the hem of a buttery gold adornment jacket.
Soft jersey numbers dialled down the ablaze hues with Biffi bringing a added aerial blow to cowl hoodies and absurd jumpers in crumb blush and buttery peach, while giving aggregate and addition with architecturally square-cut award panelled tiered dresses.
“I absolutely accept a adulation for the cool feminine, actual flowy pieces, but structured and dressmaking is absolutely area I adulation to go with my pieces,” she said in an interview.”
Brandon R. Dwyer: Brandon R. Dwyer was acutely in the affection for adulation if his latest designs are any indication, with the presentation of airy blouses and body-contouring dresses.
The “Project Aerodrome Canada” alum added aerial touches to accord clear-cut draped georgette blouses a adumbration of amaze and romanticism. There was colourful striping on aggregate necklines and a avalanche of anxiously dotted Swarovski crystals.
Flirty, body-hugging dresses and minis boasted flared hems, balloon cheers and tulle draping. And the trend of underwear as outerwear remains, in abounding cottony taffeta bustiers and corseted acme in abundant taffeta and bland charmeuse.
Dwyer went adventurous with affluent pairings of colourful hues, favouring striping as accents on necklines and adorning A-line skirted cheers in copper-tinged orange and cream, and azure and black.
Day 5 aswell featured collections from Frame, Ula Zukowska, and Canadian designs featured at Gotstyle, a Toronto menswear retailer.
Fashion Anniversary concludes Saturday with its closing night party.