[Glamour Autopsy] Fashion & Style Community

“I’m usually very miserable, so I reward myself with a fur coat every year. ”

Model Daul Kim was found dead in Paris this morning, reportedly by suicide. She was only twenty. Her blog, kind of a depressing read even before this news came, is definitely an eerie series of thoughts now.

She questioned the worth of her career as a model and mentioned frequently her loneliness - not bizarre or alarming concerns for a twenty year old jet-setting runway gem, but it's still hard to believe her suffering drove her to such an extent. I had the honor of writing a small post on behalf of the Refinery29 staff for Daul this evening. You can read it here.

The title of this post is a comment that a fan left on her last-ever blog entry. Images from Model Couture.

Lanky, vacant, ethereal, exquisite young things in heavy makeup and clothes that probably cost more than the average house in their native hometown–Runway models are something like the shimmering clothes hangers of the fashion industry, emerging amidst product as a product themselves, complete with unpredictable shelf life.

Sara Ziff’s new documentary, Picture Me, is a by-chance project compiled over her twelve years of experience in the industry, launched at age fourteen, where she cashed in with major campaigns and walked the runway in Chanel Couture. What began as casual documentation with her then-filmmaker boyfriend (Ole Schell) turned into something of an espionage experiment.

The documentary features big names in modeling, photography, and design sharing stories and views on one of the most criminally overlooked behind-the-scenes industries in the world. Models discuss, among other things, the psychological impact of their run-ins with photographers and professionals who want far more than photos, and how such blatant exlpoitation has become as common as the photos that run for print.

Learn more about this inside look at ” living dolls”, which has already garnered a ton of media attention and multiple film festival awards to boot:

http://www.myspace.com/picturemefilm

The “Picture Me” Facebook Group

Yigal Azrouel Resort 2010: Perfect, perfect, perfect. This is what resort should be right now.

Yigal’s sense of super-luxe is unrivaled this season, from flawlessly draped jersey to structural, dynamic jackets–harmonized by a color palette that’s sophisticated and smooth, punctuated by head-turning splashes of turquoise and navy.

Loving this slow-but-steady increase in headwraps and turbans as casual accessories.  Absolutely deliciousss.

Click for full collection.