Before Her Greatest Hits Were Written. RIP Kim Daul.
The snarky, impassioned, artistic and eccentric model passed yesterday in her Paris apartment of apparent suicide.
Image Credit: I like to Fork Myself and Fashion Gone Rogue
To say that her death has shocked and distressed the fashion and fashion-admirer world would be an obscene understatement.
The beautiful, leggy, chameleon loved literature, electronica, photography and art. She painted, photographed shows behind the scenes, wrote her own columns in Korean fashion magazines. She modeled for the likes of Chanel and Yohji Yamamoto. Her mysterious and piercing stare gave her a larger than life presence in her many fashion spreads. Off duty, she was by turns audacious, flamboyant and impetuous, and by turns introspective, pensive and even at times morose. She had a flare for voicing many frustrations and insights of the fashion industry many would not voice themselves, and she had no fear taking to task critics who could not understand her perspective. She was a rare, clear voice in an industry which does not always show case the mind and vocality of its citizens.
She will be missed.
More Reading on Kim:
Refinery29
NYMag
Huffington Post
Image Credit: I Like to Fork Myself & Fashion Gone Rogue.
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What you wrote here in honor of miss Daul is beautiful.
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I didn’t know much about Kim Daul, but I am sad to see such a young talent leave us. I hope she is in a better place.
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