Fashion designer L’Wren Scott has reportedly committed suicide following the discovery of her body in her Manhattan apartment on Monday morning.
The 49-year-old designer, who is the girlfriend of Rolling Stones rocker Mick Jagger, was fond by her assistant at 200 11th Ave, around 10am today, police have said.
Indeed, she hinted at her terrible vulnerability in one of her final postings on Instagram, where she reproduced the saying: ‘Fashion is the armour to survive the reality of life.’
But why did she need armour? And can she have really felt so under attack? Those who knew her say she was suffering from depression and had only just recovered from an ‘incident’ a few weeks ago when she had harmed herself.
From the outside, though, it seemed the 49-year-old former model was enjoying a halcyon period, professionally and personally.
She had just released an eponymous perfume, on sale in the upmarket store Barneys in New York.
Her cosmetics venture with make-up artist Bobbi Brown was also hitting stores, based, she said, on the colours of the roses she grew at the home in the Loire she shared with Mick.
Her spring clothing collection had been unveiled. She dressed Christina Hendricks at the Oscars and continued to win plaudits for her fashion line.
However, there were thousands of miles between her and Mick, who has been performing in Macau and Singapore with the Stones and had moved on to Australia for the next leg of their tour.
According to a source, ‘L’Wren was really quite troubled and there were some issues over Mick and her standing in the family. It seems she suffered from depression.’
Some thought she had fallen prey to the insecurities that are the lot of every rock ‘wife’ who waves a temporary goodbye to her man.
There were other signs of strain. L’Wren cancelled her show at London Fashion Week in January at the last minute, saying her chosen fabrics had arrived too late for samples to be sewn in time.
There was speculation on Sunday night that she was ‘too broke’ to stage her London show. However, she had just collaborated with the High Street store Banana Republic for a collection that would have paid her around £3million, so perhaps this is an overstatement.
She told an interviewer she felt the financial pressure. ‘Every cheque, every penny, I have to be responsible for because it’s my own money.’
Her life story reads like an adventure novel. The adopted daughter of a Mormon store clerk, she dreamed of the big time and made it.
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