A top South Korean model has been found dead in her Paris apartment by French police.
Daul Kim, 20, was a fashion week regular in New York, Milan, Paris and London and modelled for the world's top designers including Chanel, Dries van Noten and Maison Martin Margiela, the Associated Press reports.
Officials are yet to comment on the cause of the Asian's beauty's death.
Her Seoul agency said Kim's family were heading to Paris to collect her body.
The young model was well known for her thick hair, which she sometimes dyed blonde, and her sense of style.
She appeared at Seoul fashion week in October and recently starred in a commercial for designer Christopher Kane's line of clothing for British retailer Topshop.
Kim also was an accomplished painter and video filmmaker who had a solo show of her artwork in Seoul. She often listed "collecting forks" as a hobby.
Local media in Korea have speculated Kim's death may have been a suicide.
The young model reportedly wrote on her online blog recently that she was "mad depressed and overworked".
In another entry she said "the more i gain the more lonely it is ... i know i'm like a ghost.
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