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.
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There’s affectionate of a accidental op-ed in the Femail area of The Daily Mail today alleged “How Can Lily Allen Be Chanel’s Latest Appearance Muse?” that bemoans Karl Lagerfeld’s credible attraction with the singer, whom the biographer refers to as searching “worse for wear” in the past. It’s analytical for several reasons: The cardboard is accepted for publishing as abundant as it possibly can about the absolute babe vs. models debate—they’re consistently quick to lay it on blubbery if it comes to busting airbrushers and accepting quotes from annual editors who vow to action too tiny sample sizes, and they even accept a approved affection area they photograph their writers aggravating on artist clothes beat by celebrities to see how they construe in absolute life. So why would they bother with a area by a biographer who’s all pissed off about Lily Allen getting the latest Chanel babe because she’s not appearance enough?
It’s aswell just affectionate of ranty and pointless—fine for a blog, not a cardboard (then afresh this is the tabloidy Daily Mail we’re talking about not the NYTimes). It’s not that I apprehend so abundant added from them, but as bearded as the Femail area can be, if it comes to appearance they consistently best the realway instead of the aerodrome and they’ve been accomplishing a adequately acceptable job accoutrement the advocate changes the industry is currently experiencing.
Anyway, biographer Nicole Mowbray thinks that the bond of Lily Allen and Chanel is a absolute disaster. She writes that the chat Chanel “evokes images of glamour, affluence and chaste French chic,” and that the characterization “embodies class, which goes to explain the attraction for the label’s iconic affiche women over the years – Audrey Hepburn, Catherine Deneuve, Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor. And now – Lily Allen,” which she agency to accent as some affectionate of almanac scratch. Sounds like anyone is a ‘lil ashore in the past. Mowbray is clumsily anxious about Allen’s reputation, but compared to a lot of of the added women in the brand’s heritage, Allen is hardly scandalous. And alongside some of her modern-day peers, the 24-year-old is absolutely squeaky clean. But there’s more…
Is she not beautiful enough? Yes, apparently, Mowbray may poo-poo the brawl dress with sneakers attending Allen wore aback in the day, but she was a boyish pop ablaze for christssakes! Besides, it was a beautiful attending that spawned a huge trend beyond the US and UK, her appearance has absolutely developed added adult with age, and seeing as how she’s a actual adolescent woman yet, she’ll no agnosticism accept abounding added sartorial incarnations, like um, her accepted Chanel phase. So what’s the absolute affair here?
Could the botheration accept something to do with the abstraction that Allen is a bit too absolute because her amount added carefully resembles the boilerplate woman (well, added carefully so than say, Keira Knightley, addition Chanel spokesmodel)? Apprehend the beat and it’s harder not to apprehend amid the lines. Maybe Lily Allen isn’t as affected as the added modelesque celebs Chanel has advantaged in the past, but she does attending added like some of my girlfriends. And during a time if the old academy appearance labels are badly disturbing to break relevant, casting anyone as attainable and yet anxious as Lily Allen in the new face of Chanel role is appealing freakin’ ablaze if you ask me (and just as acute as Chanel arch the way if it came to that H&M accord aback in the day—Lagerfeld may be chattering but he’s no fool). Unlikely appearance heroines such as Beth Ditto and Lily Allen not alone accompany a animation of beginning air to the airless old table, they advice reposition appearance as alms something for everyone, which beautiful women of all shapes and sizes accept consistently accepted admitting assortment in the affectation getting limited. Wonder if Mowbray was absolutely agitated about that accomplished Dove Campaign For Absolute Beauty moment? She apparently admired they had acclimated Victoria’s Secret models instead.
Halloween can alone beggarly one affair in Hollywood – Heidi Klum’s Halloween party. To bless her 10th anniversary soiree, the supermodel arrive a never catastrophe account of celebrities to the alarm night, and they absolutely got into the spirit of things.
As the a lot of fearsomely attractive host, Heidi – who afresh gave bearing to her fourth adolescent – brought her awful advancing Halloween affair aback to Hollywood at new hotspot Voyeur, and forth with it came costumed celebs, aroused décor, and alarming tunes from Devin Lucien – citizen DJ at LA’s Bardot and Guys and Dolls.
Among the packed-out party-goers, celebrity guests in adorned dress included Paris Hilton dressed as something white and creamy (predictable, non?), Kelly Osbourne and Luke Worrall dressed as egg and bacon (we anticipate that’s cute), Perez Hilton dressed as Lady Gaga (yes, really), Rachel Zoe dressed as a hippie (what’s new?), Rick Fox dressed as a crank (at last, anyone got the theme), and of course, Heidi and Seal dressed as his n’ her crows – aw.
Sipping on Halloween-themed affair including the Abandoned Witch Apple Punch, Jack-O-Lantern and the Black Widow, the awful guests danced until the aboriginal hours.
No blow for the wicked, eh?
Fashion model Dree Hemingway attends the First Annual Art Awards presented by artist Rob Pruitt and the Calvin Klein Collection at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum on October 29, 2009 in New York City.
The Art Awards celebrated select individuals, exhibitions, and projects that have made a significant impact on the field of contemporary art during the past year. Pruitt, whose conceptual practice is rooted in a pop sensibility and a playful critique of art world structures, conceived the event as a performance-based artwork which follows the format of a Hollywood awards ceremony.