NPR on L'Wren Scott's shocking suicide
There was a strikingly intimate piece done by AP on NPR on the suicide today of L'Wren Scott, "...who left her small-town Utah home as a teenager to become a model in Paris, then a top Hollywood stylist and finally a high-end fashion designer best known as the longtime girlfriend of Mick Jagger. [She] has died in what was being investigated as an apparent suicide...
"Just last month Scott, who was believed to be 49 but had not disclosed her precise age, [cancelled] her London Fashion Week show, due to reported production delays.
"...She had been] a fixture on Jagger's arm since she met the Rolling Stones frontman in 2001. On red carpets, the striking 6-foot-3 designer towered over her famous 5-foot-10 boyfriend.
"... Scott founded her eponymous label [in 2005], with an initial collection based on the 'Little Black Dress.' She became known for designs that had a vintage feel and bared little skin, like her famous 'headmistress' dress - prim, with three-quarter sleeves, but also close-fitting and stylish.
"... supermodel Naomi Campbell, a close friend, wrote on WhoSay that Scott was 'the epitome of elegance and femininity yet still had a girlish quality. I will miss her honesty and I will miss her friendship. My heart goes out to Mick and all who loved her and were loved by her.'
"... [In a show last year], the designer welcomed guests into the wood-paneled, chandeliered banquet hall of an Edwardian building in Chelsea [London]. Guests were offered white wine in tall glasses... Fiddling with the lighting and the technical details was none other than Jagger, who also stood next to Scott during post-show interviews.
"[Her stuff] combined the strict and the sexy," said Valerie Steele, director of The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. "Not sexiness like body exposure, but sexiness like a very strict governess.
"...Scott also designed a huge wardrobe for boyfriend Jagger to wear during the Rolling Stones' '50 and Counting' anniversary tour... Among the stars who wore Scott's designs was actress Olivia Wilde. 'L'Wren Scott was brilliant, elegant, kind, and generous,' Wilde wrote on Twitter. 'What a tragedy.'
"Just last month Scott, who was believed to be 49 but had not disclosed her precise age, [cancelled] her London Fashion Week show, due to reported production delays.
"...She had been] a fixture on Jagger's arm since she met the Rolling Stones frontman in 2001. On red carpets, the striking 6-foot-3 designer towered over her famous 5-foot-10 boyfriend.
"... Scott founded her eponymous label [in 2005], with an initial collection based on the 'Little Black Dress.' She became known for designs that had a vintage feel and bared little skin, like her famous 'headmistress' dress - prim, with three-quarter sleeves, but also close-fitting and stylish.
"... supermodel Naomi Campbell, a close friend, wrote on WhoSay that Scott was 'the epitome of elegance and femininity yet still had a girlish quality. I will miss her honesty and I will miss her friendship. My heart goes out to Mick and all who loved her and were loved by her.'
"... [In a show last year], the designer welcomed guests into the wood-paneled, chandeliered banquet hall of an Edwardian building in Chelsea [London]. Guests were offered white wine in tall glasses... Fiddling with the lighting and the technical details was none other than Jagger, who also stood next to Scott during post-show interviews.
"[Her stuff] combined the strict and the sexy," said Valerie Steele, director of The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. "Not sexiness like body exposure, but sexiness like a very strict governess.
"...Scott also designed a huge wardrobe for boyfriend Jagger to wear during the Rolling Stones' '50 and Counting' anniversary tour... Among the stars who wore Scott's designs was actress Olivia Wilde. 'L'Wren Scott was brilliant, elegant, kind, and generous,' Wilde wrote on Twitter. 'What a tragedy.'