A highly-successful 20-year-old model Daul Kim was found dead yesterday. Karl Lagerfeld, Vivienne Westwood, Alexander McQueen and Christopher Kane are among the top-tier designers who regularly used Kim to showcase their latest collections. The Seoul-born, 5ft 10inch model made her international catwalk debut at Paris Fashion week in 2007.
Kim’s boyfriend, who declined to be named in the press, found her hanged in her Paris apartment and alerted police. Authorities are operating under the hypothesis that she committed suicide. Kim’s agent tells the AP her mother is arriving in Paris today.
A spokesman for Next, her agency in Paris, announced Kim’s death this morning, saying: “She was a top model and a great friend of us all.”
On October 30, Kim wrote on her blog she was “mad depressed and overworked.” On November 5, she wrote in another entry, “the more i gain the more lonely it is … i know i’m like a ghost i have nothing but myself.” In her last entry, on November 18, she posted a track by Jim Rivers, “I Go Deep,” with the headline “say hi to forever.”
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