Top model plunges to her death
June 30, 2008
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A 20-YEAR-OLD woman identified by local media as Kazakh model Ruslana Korshunova plunged to her death from a Manhattan apartment yesterday in an apparent suicide.
Police said only that the woman was found dead in front of an apartment building in Manhattan, near the financial district and the South Street Seaport tourist area.
Korshunova had graced the covers of European editions of Elle and Vogue and walked the catwalks for designers including Betsey Johnson and Jill Stuart.
Witnesses described seeing her plunge from a ninth floor balcony in the building yesterday afternoon.
Local media, citing police sources, said there was no sign of a struggle inside her apartment and that Korshunova was believed to have leaped to her death.
A friend told The New York Post, however, that Korshunova had just returned from a modelling job in Paris and seemed “on top of the world”.
“There were no signs,” the unidentified friend was quoted as saying. “I don’t see one reason why she would do that.”
Korshunova, born in Kazakhstan, had been profiled in British Vogue in recent years as a new face to watch, and she was featured in ads by Vera Wang, Marc Jacobs, Christian Dior and DKNY.
A spokesman for Korshunova’s agency, IMG, which also handles Heidi Klum and Kate Moss, said “We’re shocked and our heart goes out to her family,” the Daily News reported.
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Supermodel Ruslana Korshunova didn’t wear the trendiest dress from the fall collection. Having jumped from the 9th floor of a building, she became the fall collection. Poor girl. She didn’t bother waiting for her upcoming birthday tomorrow, July 2. One wonders what drives people to commit suicide… It must be the trees from M.Night’s The Happening. http://designdemocracyph.blogspot.com/