RIP Daul Kim - 1989-2009

[sethii]

Korean TV report - includes interview with her agents in Paris
http://tvpot.daum.net/clip/ClipView.do?clipid=19720457

 

[kindkarma]

its so awful. she was someone i admired. i wanted her to wear the clothes i design. i imagined to eat cake together or do a funny film together although i didnt know her. i really didnt know her at all.
i was depresed the whole day. but life went on, woke up at 7, went to school, home, ate lunch... i realise that life is so fragile. you live your routine and km away from you there are people dying inside. i feel like ****. i read her blog. the last few days i didnt really... just the entry about what she would have worn spring summer 2010. i wasnt interested in jim rivers. she showed us on the runway what to wear next spring and summer, but she doesnt have another summer.
why couldnt we see it coming? we, who read the blog, saw her dying. we saw her dying process that took years. where is the individual behind the massive amount of media and internet consumption stuck? it seems lost. is your firewall blocking the real person behind the html so we cant see it anymore? or are we just deadend by too many emo kids?
do i feel guilty?no. do i feel nasty, yes, because i justify myself i couldnt have known it and say the hints were clear. **** me, it's too late.

i cant look at her blog anymore. its strange to read the intimate thoughts of a dead person. maybe if some time passes.

 

[franchini]

Small tribute on Russh magazine's blog:

Daul

1989 - 2009

You will be greatly missed.

russhblog.com

 

[ishnumy]

I admired and related to you in so many ways. Your blog meant a lot to me. It really saddens me to think that the I -and so many others- can no longer have that joy. Daul, you were truly the one and only. I will always love you, forever.

 

[min-SH]

omg that's what she's called in Chinese? girl even had depression written in her name.
I just bought the new RUSSH...

yes terribly disturbing.

 

[sethii]

She didn't have to die. I mean it wasn't her fate. Plenty of times she wrote about how happy she felt. We shouldn't see every thing she said, did and wrote as some kind of trail leading to the suicide - that simplifies who she was. Tragically she did die, but people who suffer what she did can get better in the right environment with the right help.

 

[hermetic]

really extremely sad

 

[nijuyanah]

She didn't have to die. I mean it wasn't her fate. Plenty of times she wrote about how happy she felt. We shouldn't see every thing she said, did and wrote as some kind of trail leading to the suicide - that simplifies who she was. Tragically she did die, but people who suffer what she did can get better in the right environment with the right help.

Thanks for pointing that out!
I totally agree with everyone: it's increadibly sad and I cannot even express how overwhelmed I was by these news. And of course, we don't know how her "inner-life" looked. How she felt and what lead her to this drastic (and tragic) step. But still I think we should keep her in our minds as the happy and powerful girl she always seemed to be (at least to me).

 

[cheyqua]

my heart goes to her. RIP Daul..

 

[Gab89]

I feel so sorry...it's a huge loss...RIP Daul Kim

http://i84.***********/u/f84/12/34/55/64/daul11.jpg

from my blog

 

[Ceir]

Last week, 20-year-old model Daul Kim was found hanged in her Paris apartment by her boyfriend. Police are investigating her death, but believe she committed suicide. Authorities, Kim's friends and family, and reporters are trying to figure out why Kim might have wanted to kill herself. At their disposal is her blog, iliketoforkmyself, which was open to public viewing when we last checked on Friday but has since been changed to invite-only, perhaps in light of the ongoing investigation.
Kim frequently wrote about feeling lonely and tired from being overworked, battles with insomnia, and mood swings. When she launched the blog, she said the title had nothing to do with wanting to harm or kill herself. In one of her first posts in April of 2007, she wrote, "My life as dual was so miserable and lonely. Please join my loneliness in another world. I love you all." Later she added, "KIDDING. I'm fine. Just tired." In July, she wrote that her mood swings were a result of a food allergy: "Why me? I never eat so much junk food, I don't drink like an alcoholic, I don't do drugs, I don't party I'm so quiet and I don't starve myself."
A model agent who wished to remain anonymous told the Telegraph, "She was an excellent model, but she used to say she had hard times off the job."

One friend said she had become fed up with modelling and its demands, considering her life was too frenetic and incompatible with forming the sort of long-term relationship she hankered for.
"Her agency was often trying to get hold of her on her mobile, but she refused to be available all the time," said one.
​

Just a few weeks ago, Kim shot an ad campaign for Karl Lagerfeld's latest line of Chanel handbags. She had been described as Karl's new "muse."

from NYmag

 

[smartarse]

anybody knows who her mother agency was? I am a mother agent myself, we obviously read the blogs of our girls (if they have one); if I saw such a blog by one of our girls, I would have rang the alarm bells big time and permanently

excellent point.
i think all agencies should start doing this practice.

 

[ax80]

Thanks for pointing that out!
I totally agree with everyone: it's increadibly sad and I cannot even express how overwhelmed I was by these news. And of course, we don't know how her "inner-life" looked. How she felt and what lead her to this drastic (and tragic) step. But still I think we should keep her in our minds as the happy and powerful girl she always seemed to be (at least to me).

Yet I don't think anyone remembers her for other than that. Unfortunate things happened but that never took away her spunk or creativity which were some of the things that made her a powerful girl. I mean, I think that because of her impeccable style and unique personality, she had longer staying power than many other models that are out there right now. Again, it was an unfortunate series of events that led to such a tragic ending but the essence of the girl is still the same inspiring one. I don't think that people see her as less inspiring just because she did what she did. I don't think she was a quitter, I just think that her pain must have been unbearable and uncomfortable. No matter what I think that to most of us that actually did follow her career for months and years, she will still remain that one of a kind Korean girl that always made you smile and always inspired you to think forward.

 

[kbella]

excellent point.
i think all agencies should start doing this practice.

I definitely think there needs to be someone who 'cares' about the models within an agency, kind of like a human resources department in a regular job. It must get so lonely sometimes, especially because of language barriers and unfamiliar customs. I think everything is glossed over too much.

 

[pipoca]

Oh my god, I've just heard about that today and I'm shocked!
RIP Daul, such a beautiful girl and an incredible model... we'll miss you

 

[Tondo]

i spent some time reading her blog the 18th, out of the blue. she's hilarious. uncanny she was gone the next day.

why though? she could have quit except to illustrate her lovehate for fashion industry was just that great i guess.

frockwriter
breathtaking.

 

[zehenspitze]

I definitely think there needs to be someone who 'cares' about the models within an agency, kind of like a human resources department in a regular job. It must get so lonely sometimes, especially because of language barriers and unfamiliar customs. I think reverything is glossed over too much.

it's the intrinsic duty of the mother agency - obviously up to a certain limit, a mother agency does not substitute family, friends, social context, psychologists. However, if a girl can't cope with the fashion week challenge in terms of stress (come on, nobody needs to be an Alexey Stakhanov for that) and AT THE SAME TIME writes such necrophilic essays on her blog, a mother agent must immediately stop this girl from continuing to model if the parents don't do it - whether she is an upcoming star or a not

 

[Davidoff]

R.I.P, Daul! You will be missed!

 

[WerbowyStegner]

Some beautiful Daul pictures
I know its shallow but this is how I want to remember Daul..
Beautiful.. and glowing



scanned from a korean magazine

abacausa

abacausa


elle

neiman marcus

 

[WerbowyStegner]

Beautiful Daul -R.I.P
-These are the second last pictures! I just felt some of the photos in this thread did not do her justice. She was beautiful and seemed happy!

Source:esteem

source: interview for vogue korea


Daul for MAC



elle.co.kr