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The Ugly Side of the Fashion Industry: Model Ruslana Korshunova's Suicide
Posted by Heather Muse at 10:20 AM, June 30, 2008

Suicide is not something to make light of. (It is, however, worthy of an eye-roll when you make a half-hearted attempt to fake your own death to avoid jail. I'm looking at you Samuel Israel III and your "suicide is painless" message written on the trunk of your car.) The coverage of the suicide of model Ruslana Korshunova, however, has one minor irritant that needs to be pointed out. Again, it is awful that this 20-year-old woman was in so much emotional pain that she jumped to her death from her Water St. apartment on Saturday. But Korshunova, no matter what the papers say, was not a supermodel.

It seems that "supermodel" has become the default term for anyone who struts down the runway and poses for magazine covers. Korshunova may have been a rising star in the fashion industry (she had appeared on the covers of French Elle and Russian Vogue), but she was not in the pantheon of stars that can simply go by their first names: Kate (Moss), Naomi (Campbell), Cindy (Crawford), Linda (Evangelista), etc. Heck, even Agyness Deyn at this point is closer to supermodel status than this random beauty.

Beyond that point--which again, is totally minor--today's coverage of Korshunova's death concentrates on the reactions to her suicide from family and friends. Her boyfriend Mark Kaminsky tells the Daily News that Korshunova "was doing good. She was one of the top models. She was happy with this." The News also features excerpts from her blog on its website, where the model ruminates on love and life with observations such as, "boys..why are you so silly?" and "i'm so lost..will i ever find myself?.." The messages were posted on a Russian social networking site, but the news doesn't specify whether they were originally written in English or Russian. (The assumption I'm going on, because of the choice the News made in keeping everything lowercase, is that they were posted in English.)

The Post talks to Kaminsky and Korshunova's ex-boyfriend, Artem Perchenok, who tells the paper,

Ruslana Korshunova read poems on a website , if your know someone do suicide , careful what you write recite a poem! your can make someone so sadden that she do on suicide! If your be unhappy don't read poem and don't look to a sad movie so get feeling feel down or feel unhappy drinks alcohol drank end your make a end of your life!

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Hi Fashion tv, you most not only look to funny thinks life! Some day's there are black page , with a end in tragedy of model Ruslana Korshunova commit suicide June 28, 2008 on Saturday 2:30 p.m. , if you find it not imported ? But if YvesSaintLauren't died a famous modendesinger that is a an important day form fashion tv , but model be not imported?

Read newspaper that a Russia model is died Ruslana Korshunova is dead, can FTV remember this model, terrible accident what happed !

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