SYDNEY — The style business is mourning the loss of life of 27-year-old Croatian Australian mannequin Lucy Markovic, who died Friday following issues of a mind arteriovenous malformation.
A severe situation the place irregular blood vessels within the mind change into tangled, AVM can doubtlessly trigger bleeding or mind injury. Final month — in a since deleted, however broadly reported Instagram submit — Markovic instructed her social media viewers that she required surgical procedure on April 2 for an AVM “the dimensions of a golf ball.”
Markovic had a short profession, first rising to prominence in Australia in 2015 as a 17-year-old from Queensland’s Gold Coast who positioned runner-up within the ninth season of actuality TV present “Australia’s Subsequent Prime Mannequin.” In Could 2016 she made her Australian Style Week debut on the resort 2017 collections showcase.
She made her worldwide debut on the spring 2023 reveals, reserving exclusives for Versace and Givenchy, in later seasons strolling for, amongst others, Dolce & Gabbana, Bally, Brandon Maxwell and Dion Lee. Her promoting campaigns included Versace, Victoria Beckham Vacation and Emporio Armani.
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She was a specific favourite of the Armani group, strolling in six of its reveals together with for Emporio Armani, Giorgio Armani and Armani Privé. Editorial work included Italy’s Gray journal; Vogue Hong Kong, Singapore and Korea; W; Self-importance Honest Italia; Harper’s Bazaar Arabia: Numéro Netherlands, and Australia’s Facet-Word.
Donatella Versace lead the tributes to Markovic on her Instagram Tales, posting images of her in Versace’s fall 2023 present and the Versace spring 2023 marketing campaign. Versace added, “I’m so sorry to listen to the information about @lucymarkovicc. Relaxation in peace stunning woman.”
“At present, we misplaced a star,” posted Markovic’s Australian mom company Kult Australia. “We’re deeply saddened by the passing of Lucy. She was radiant, heat and a wonderful soul. We are going to cherish being a part of her journey.”
Elite Mannequin Administration in New York posted a three-tile tribute. “Modeling was certainly one of Lucy’s desires, and we’re deeply honored to have been a part of that journey along with her,” the company wrote. “She introduced magnificence, energy, and wonder to her work. However greater than that, she introduced herself — her heat, her laughter, her gentle.”
Markovic can be being mourned by the Australian sporting group, the Gold Coast Knights Soccer Membership becoming a member of within the tributes on its Instagram and Fb pages by posting a photograph of a teenage Markovic in membership uniform surrounded by her former teammates.
“It’s with the deepest and most profound unhappiness that we share with the Knights household the passing of Lucy Markovic, a former junior participant of the membership and far beloved member of the Gold Coast Croatian group,” the membership wrote.
The membership mentioned its senior males’s and ladies’s groups would mark a minute of silence for Markovic this weekend.
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