Remembering Designer (and Mick Jagger's Unique Paramour) L'Wren Scott

It’s a sad day in the fashion world. L’Wren Scott, designer to the stars and long-time girlfriend of Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger, has died from an apparent suicide at the age of 49, Reuters reported.

While the details are scarce, Scott allegedly texted her assistant at 8:30 a.m. Monday to “come by” her Manhattan apartment. When the assistant arrived 90 minutes later, she found her boss hanging from a doorknob. According to Jagger’s representative, the 70-year-old singer, who is currently on tour with his band in Australia, is "completely shocked and devastated by the news."

Raised by adoptive parents who named her Laura “Luann” Bambrough, she changed her name to “L’Wren Scott” after moving to Paris at the age of 18 and becoming a model for Chanel. In 2001, after she had been living for years in Los Angeles, she met Jagger on a photo shoot, and the two become became a couple. Though Scott, at 6’3", towered over 5’10" Jagger, he kept a sense of humor about the height difference — when the pair attended the 2005 Golden Globe Awards, he good-naturedly thanked Scott for “not wearing heels.” The couple enjoyed taking drives to explore ancient castles and churches and also championed each other’s work. Scott designed costumes for the Rolling Stones “50 and Counting” tour and Jagger was a front-row fixture at Scott’s fashion shows. In 2009, Scott told The Daily Beast, “Mick loves what I wear, and always has something to say about it! Look at the way he dresses! I don't think there's a more fashion-conscious man in the world.”

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Scott didn’t let her high-profile romance overshadow her blossoming career. As her mother, Lula Bambrough, told a newspaper in 2003, “She usually knows what she wants and she gets it. It doesn’t surprise me at all that she’s tamed Mick. She is very much her own woman and it would be my guess that is why this Mick Jagger likes her.”

And so did the public. Although Scott had hardcore fashion credentials, having worked as a costume designer for films including “Eyes Wide Shut” and "Ocean’s Thirteen," she exploded onto the mainstream style scene in 2006 with her creation the “Headmistress dress,” a black-and-white belted wool number worn by Madonna, Nicole Kidman, and Jennifer Lopez. Scott’s other famous clients included Reese Witherspoon, Renée Zellweger, Kate Moss, Angelina Jolie, Michelle Obama, and Sarah Jessica Parker, who according to Vogue, once said, “L'Wren is maybe the most glamorous person I know.” In an interview with The Telegraph, Christina Hendricks also gushed, “L’Wren’s clothes make you feel like a sexy pinup, a sophisticated lady, and a rock star all at once. She designs for how women want to look and for what men want to look at.”

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Despite her A-list clientele, Scott understood that glamour should be attainable for all women. "We dress up to size 50. I love helping women make the best of themselves," she told The Telegraph in 2013, "and it's a point of pride with me that whatever your size and shape you'll find something to wear in my collection."

Scott’s death comes shortly after she canceled her London Fashion Week show at the last minute in January after claiming fabric arrived too late to be used in time for the event, and according to a story published Monday in the Daily Mail, Scott, who had always refused money from Jagger, was nearly $6 million dollars in debt at the time of her death and was “embarrassed” by her financial situation.

And while on the morning of her death, Scott jovially tweeted her support to a London photographer, “Today #love,” (her Twitter account is currently suspended) she clearly had a reflective side. “You’ll see the most perfect person and you are like, ‘God, she’s, like, perfect,’” Scott told Harper’s Bazaar of her celebrity clients in 2011. “And then she’ll tell you everything that’s not perfect. Everyone has their own special set of problems—in their own minds.”
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