Model Tom Nicon Dies in Apparent Suicide
Tom Nicon in the Burberry Prorsum Fall/Winter 2010/2011 runway show on January 16, 2010 in MIlan. Photo: AFP/ Getty Images
The French model, who was one of the faces of Burberry and walked the runway for major designers such as YSL, Hugo Boss and Louis Vuitton, fell four floors from an apartment building in Milan, according to the Daily Mail.
The discovery of his body this weekend was mere hours before the fashion festivities kicked off. Nicon had even attended show rehearsal at Versace earlier in the day of his death.
"He was with us on Friday morning for a final fitting," said Donatella Versace. "He seemed fine and calm. He had already done three or four shows with us and he was a sweet boy. We just can't understand why he did what he did. We would never have thought he would do something like this. When we heard the news we were all so upset and we still are all so very sad."
Police investigating the case are treating it as a suicide and told the Daily Mail that his death might have been spurred by romantic troubles.:
"We have spoken to the friends he was staying with and they have told us that he had recently broken up with his girlfriend and was depressed."
Nicon's death is the latest in a string of apparent suicides and suicide attempts by models. Last month, French stunner Noemie Lenoir reportedly overdosed on a mix of drugs and alcohol in France, but was rushed to a hospital and saved. (Lenoir has since returned to work.)
A month before that, male model Ambrose Olsen died in what insiders are calling a suicide by hanging. Late last year top model Daul Kim also allegedly hanged herself in her Paris apartment, and in 2008 Ruslana Korshunova jumped several stories from her New York City balcony in what was determined a suicide.
Nicon's agency in Milan, D'Management, wrote the following on its Web site: "A Tribute to Tom Nicon: A friend to all of us. Always so special, always so brilliant and such a great model and human being."
A tribute during Men's Fashion Week in Milan is also planned.
And we'll never forget when news broke of Alexander McQueen's suicide on day one of last season's New York Fashion Week.
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willy, 6-21-2010, 2:22PM
Poor guy. Looks like he needed to eat something. Amazing what starvation will do to your mind.
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