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News.com.au
14-05-2025
- Entertainment
- News.com.au
‘Died for 10 minutes': Dan Single opens up about near-fatal fall in 2017
Sydney fashion designer Dan Single has opened up about his near-fatal fall from a four-storey hotel in Paris in 2017, saying that he 'died for 10 minutes'. Mr Single, who co-founded multimillion-dollar Aussie label Ksubi in 1999, landed feet-first when he slipped and plummeted 35 metres from the balcony of Hotel Grand D'Amour, where he was working with then-wife, supermodel Bambi Northwood-Blyth. He suffered a broken pelvis and hips, shattered legs, internal trauma and a blow to the head, and was in an induced coma for eight days afterwards and told he might never walk again. Eight years on, Mr Single told the story of the accident at Australian Fashion Week on Tuesday, where he launched his new book, The Diary of a Naughtie Kid. 'It made me stop, slow down and think about what I want in my life,' Mr Single, who shares a son with ex-partner and fellow designer Pip Edwards, told The Daily Telegraph. 'I had a chance to start fresh and I have used that second chance to be of service and help to inspire.' Mr Single said he 'made this book for my son, Justice, who is way too big now, and for the next generation to show them you don't need permission or training to create'. 'I like to think of myself and my crew as a bunch of beautiful weirdos and this book is for them,' he continued. 'It is not a life story, it is not even close … this captures a brief moment in time, the noughties. A moment in time when everything felt new, like there were no rules.' On the first anniversary of his accident in 2018, Mr Single shared images on Instagram of himself in hospital, injecting himself with painkillers, and an X-ray of his shattered pelvis. 'A year ago today I was dead. I had just fallen off a four-storey balcony in Paris. Landed on the road, broke lots of bones in my body, hit my head, DIED,' he captioned the post. '(I) came back to life, was in a coma for eight days. 'I had 10 operations to put this body back together again. Spent the next three months on my back in a hospital in Paris. I was told I might never walk again. 'I returned home in a wheelchair. Two months later I was slowly getting about on crutches. I knew that if I put my mind to it, and worked really hard I could recover again and walk again. I'm still doing it, recovering.' In the same post, he also revealed he and Ms Northwood-Blyth had split after almost four years of marriage. 'When I fell, my hips and pelvis broke in half and with that our co-dependent relationship broke too,' he wrote. 'We were no longer joined at the hip. Two people cannot live as one, it's not healthy. You can try but you're really living half a life. We both have our journeys to go on now, ones that we couldn't have gone on together. We are respectful and happy for what each other has got going on, no bad vibes. 'I will love her to the moon and back for eternity … I learnt a lot from her and am so grateful to have shared many adventures with this beautiful girl.'
Daily Mail
14-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Rarely seen model Bambi Northwood-Blyth leaves little to the imagination as she goes braless at Australian Fashion Week - while her designer ex-husband Dan Single returns to limelight
Bambi Northwood-Blyth was drawing onlookers as she attended Australian Fashion Week on Wednesday. The model turned heads in a simple white cotton shirt under which she went braless, leaving little to the imagination. The 34-year-old paired the lived-in top with a pair of puffy shorts that resembled bloomers and featured a checked pattern in a dark purple. She added a pair of retro sunglasses and hoop earrings while keeping her other accessories light. Bambi completed her ensemble with a pair of black patent leather heels with a hold barbed wire detail. For makeup, she chose a natural look with some flush in her cheeks along along a dark pink lip stain. The model turned heads in a simple white cotton shirt under which she went braless, leaving little to the imagination It comes as Bambi's ex-husband Dan Single has returned to the spotlight with a bang after several years living quietly following a horror fall from a balcony that almost took his life. The Ksubi designer staged an art installation at Australian Fashion Week on Tuesday night to promote his new book, The Diary of a Naughtie Kid. The 47-year-old, who has rarely discussed his March 2017 accident which happened at an upscale Paris hotel, on Wednesday revealed that he 'died for ten minutes' after the fall, which left him in a coma. 'It made me stop, slow down and think about what I want in my life,' the designer told Confidential. 'I had a chance to start fresh and I have used that second chance to be of service and help to inspire.' His book, which features photos and ephemera such as love letters, hate mail and newspaper clippings from Dan's reign in the fashion world in the 2000s, he says is a 'a little snapshot in time when it was a magical moment to be alive'. The book is dedicated to his teenage son, Justice, 18, who he shares with P.E Nation designer Pip Edwards. 'I made this book for my son, Justice, who is way too big now and for the next generation to show them you don't need permission or training to create' Dan said. 'It is not a life story, it is not even close … this captures a brief moment in time, the noughties. A moment in time when everything felt new, like there were no rules.' The installation launching The Diary of a Naughtie Kid, which was attended by several hundred audience members at Carriageworks in Sydney, featured a heavily tattooed woman sitting upon a tin foil wrapped couch surrounded by images from the tome. Dan fell 35 metres from the fourth-storey balcony of Hotel Grand D'Amour in Paris in March, 2017. The accident saw him plunge several storeys, shattering his legs and leaving him in a coma for eight days. The Daily Telegraph first reported Dan's fall, with a source telling the publication at the time: 'His legs are a complete mess; he won't be walking for a very long time. 'He is not in a good way. It's expected both he and Bambi will have to stay over there for quite a while because he's not able to fly.' The following month, Dan created a Go Fund Me page, writing that he's 'been given a second lease at life.' 'It all sounds awful but the guy writing this mail has been given a second lease at life and is SO grateful, inspired and excited to be back soon,' he wrote on the page. 'I am also lucky to have my family here by [my] side, wife, mother, brother and at least a visitor a day.' Dan said at the time that he was hoping to raise $250,000 to help pay for his recovery and any associated costs. 'Help fund the hospital bill, rehab bill, early flights home, being unable to make bread and work over the next [few] months and all the incidentals the family is covering at the moment,' Dan added. The entrepreneur also clarified that the media reports were correct, and that he shattered 'every bone from my feet to my hips and pelvis.' 'I fell three floors (35 metres) out of my hotel room in Paris, did a summersault and landed on my feet which saved my spine and my brain (a miracle says the doctor, one in 100 million chance).' Dan added about his recovery: 'I have been in a coma for two weeks, had eight operations and am covered in pins and bolts in my bones.' 'I cannot use my legs for another month or two so will be in a rehab centre in Paris recovering.' Single was labelled 'pathetic' for asking the public to raise the $250,000 to help cover his medical bills. An anonymous donor said: 'How come you can fund partying, drinking and overseas trips but not your own recovery?' 'I'll give you $5 with the sole intent of telling you what an idiot everyone thinks you are.' Single later removed the crowdfunding campaign after it was met with an avalanche of abuse with the former BRW Young Rich-lister labelled 'disgusting' by commenters. Single announced his his split with then-wife Bambi in March 2018, exactly twelve months after his Paris balcony fall. Bambi
