Top male model found dead after falling from apartment window hours before Milan fashion show
Police are investigating the death of a top male model found dead just hours ahead of the start of Milan Men's Fashion Week.
Catwalk star Tom Nicon, 22, died instantly after falling four floors from an apartment window in the centre of the Italian fashion capital.
French model Nicon worked for Louis Vuitton, Burberry, Hugo Boss and had just returned from a Versace rehearsal before he was found dead.
'Suicide': Tom Nicon had recently split from his girlfriend, a police source said
Police in Milan said today they were treating the death as suicide and investigating suggestions he had suffered from a ''complicated affair of love.''
A police source in Milan said: 'We have spoken to the friends he was staying with and they have told us that he had recently broken up with his girlfriend and was depressed.''
Organisers said the Fashion Week show would go ahead as planned and designers paid tribute to Nicon, with Donatella Versace saying: 'He was with us on Friday morning for a final fitting.
'He seemed fine and calm. He had already done three or four shows with us and he was a sweet boy. We just can't understand why he did what he did. We would never have thought he would do something like this.
Tragic: American model Ambrose Olsen and South Korean model Daul Kim both died recently
'When we heard the news we were all so upset and we still are all so very sad.''
Nicon's death was the latest in a series of tragedies that have hit the fashion world during the last year - in November South Korean model Daul Kim, 20, hanged herself in her Paris apartment.
In April American Ambrose Olsen, 24, was found dead in his New York home while last month Marks and Spencer's model Noemie Lenoir, 30, tried to kill herself in Paris with a lethal drink and drugs cocktail.
Today a black bordered photo of Nicon was posted on the his agency website dmanagement with the message: 'A tribute to Tom Nicon. A true friend, a wonderful human being, a great model.''
An anonymous posting by a fellow model on the fashion website Issac Likes shed light on the giddy world and said: 'People think we are young and beautiful and rich and happy. But we're not. We go to castings and the directors take one look at us and then we're dismissed.
'You spend your whole life wondering what's wrong with you. Why didn't I get that job? You're competing with your friends, you're away from your family. The pressure is huge. It's not the fairytale life people would expect.'
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