Mysteries and tragedies in fashion are also part of the catwalks, fashion, fame and fortune are not the only protagonists, because in some cases eccentric life brings its consequences. Let us discover below which are the ones that have impacted the most and where designers and high personalities have been involved in the fashion world.
Since designer Paul Poiret innovated the world of fashion by liberating women from the famous and uncomfortable corset, a number of designers have opened the way to fame and immense fortunes, some of them with eccentric lives and tragic ends. A perhaps not tragic ending, but a regrettable one was that of Poiret himself, who after achieving success and great fortune, died poor and unsuccessful.
But other celebrities had more shocking and tragic endings, which left a wave of mysteries and tragedies in fashion, such as the case of the American designer L’Wren Scott, when she was found lifeless hanging from a scarf tied around her neck in her apartment in Manhattan. After the autopsy, the coroners ruled that it was suicide.
Also, there have been several famous designers who have shocked the world after dying in a violent and surprising way. One of those cases occurred on January 8, 2013, when the Spanish designer Manuel Mota, famous for his wedding dresses, was found dead in the bathroom of an ambulatory in Sitges, Barcelona, and the thesis emerged according to research, that the designer would have committed suicide with a knife.
However, the tragic and shocking conditions in which his body was found, made it immediately thought that it was a murder; But sometime later, three letters were found addressed to his partner, his family and the police, which confirmed that it was he who took his own life.
For his part, Lee Alexander McQueen, one of the most prominent designers in the United Kingdom, decided to kill himself on February 11, 2010 at the age of 41, consuming a combination of sleeping pills, tranquilizers and cocaine, to later hang himself in his London apartment. The investigations carried out verified that she suffered from depression, insomnia and anxiety, a situation that she had been going through for some time and that was aggravated with the death of her mother.
Another very famous and media case was that of Gianni Versace, 51 years old. This designer was killed on July 15, 1997 in front of his house in Miami, when a young man approached him and shot him in the neck before entering his residence.
It should be noted that Versace’s death was one of the most mediatic of the 90s, impacting not only the fashion sector but the entire world. Many hypotheses arose to try to explain the crime of this famous designer, from the fact that it was commissioned by the Calabrian mafia, until it was an armed robbery. However, the most accepted is the one that points to Andrew Cunanan as the person responsible for the shot that took his life, as a result of his obsession with the designer.
Another tragic death in the fashion world is that of designer Vittorio Missoni, which was filled with mystery considering that his remains were never found. Thus, since the January 4, 2013, the plane in which he was traveling with his partner and friends in Venezuela disappeared, only the bodies of his companions were found. For this reason, it is considered one of the greatest mysteries and tragedies in international fashion.
For its part, the case of Isabella Blow fashion editor and muse of Philip Treacy and Alexander Mcqueen who died in 2007. It was known that she suffered from ovarian cancer, which caused her a deep depression, which presumably led to her taking her own life.
Likewise, one of the founders of the Gucci brand, Maurizio Gucci (1948-1995), was shot up the stairs of his office, finding after the investigations that his ex-wife Patrizia Reggiani had been the author of the murder. The woman declared to the police that she had done so in order to prevent him from marrying her new love.
One more case of mysteries and tragedies in fashion was that of the famous Christian Dior, who died at the age of 52, whose cause of death still remains a mystery today. Currently some claim that he was drowned with a fish bone, and others claim that he had a heart attack while having sex with two men in his bed. Arguments have woven a halo of mystery and speculation about its tragic ending.
The case of the young and beautiful Ruslana Korshunova, who killed herself in 2008, also made headlines around the world. The model who paraded for major industry firms and starred in Nina Ricci’s commercials launched from the ninth floor of her New York apartment shortly before her 21st birthday.
According to some testimonies, this death could have been avoided, due to the messages that she herself published in depressive states, where she affirmed that she was a witch, that her previous relationships did not work because she was unpredictable. In addition, the beautiful model was associated with the Moscow cult group Rosa del Mundo, even in some newspapers it was even speculated that her death had had to do with the Russian mafia. It should be noted that one year after her death, her best friend Anastasia Drozdova killed herself in the same way.
A regrettable and surprising event is related to the death of Gianpaolo Tarabini, co-founder of the fashion company Blumarine. This celebrity in the fashion world died in 2006 at the age of 67 in Zimbabwe, after being attacked by two elephants while hunting.
Another famous designer who apparently found the death of his lovers was Rudolph Moshammer, a German designer, better known as “the czar of fashion”. Who was the darling of the German heart magazines, and always had something to talk about, but the eccentricity of this 64-year-old designer was extinguished, when he was strangled with a telephone cable on January 14, 2005 in his own house in Munich, ruling out suicide, so the hypothesis of a possible “murder with a homosexual background” gained strength.
Similar circumstances led to the death of designer Ossie Clark, found dead in his London apartment on August 6, 1996. This British designer was one of the most important of the 60s and 70s, standing out for his Rolling Stone designs and his vaporous and romantic chiffon dresses. Clark had a very tragic death, when his 28-year-old ex-lover, named Diego Cogolato, suffered a psychotic episode and stabbed him repeatedly until he was lifeless.
Without a doubt, all these mysteries and tragedies in fashion are framed in a set of evidences and situations of conflict, trauma, depression caused by various factors. The truth is that the more fame one has, the greater the risks of falling into this type of circumstances, especially if people are not cantered and/or balanced, evidencing emotional, emotional and / or spiritual needs; as it happens in any other area of modern society, but which have greater relevance in the world of celebrities.
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