Model Nyima Ward, the son of ’90s supermodel Trish Goff — alongside whom he appeared in Vogue as a teen — died late last month at the age of 27. A cause of death has not been reported for the native New Yorker, who passed away on May 29, according to an posted earlier this week. “There is no doubt that when he was born, he was the sun to parents Aaron Ward and Trish Goff’s whole system,” the obituary reads, noting that his name means “the Sun” in Tibetan.
Ward began his in the mid-2010s and quickly landed gigs with legendary fashion photographers such as Bruce Weber and Steven Meisel. He made his , walking for Anna Sui 23 years after his mom made her catwalk debut for the same designer. But much like his mother, who left the modeling world behind to , Ward’s passions laid elsewhere.
He was particularly interested in carpentry, and at one point held a job doing repairs at the BDDW furniture store in Soho. “[Modeling is] less a career and more just something on the side,” . “I don’t really see it as a long-term career, definitely not.
” His obituary described Ward as an avid traveler and “boy of the world ...
who grew into a man of the earth, falling in love with farming and animals and chasing his dreams from California to Florida. It wouldn’t have been unheard of to find Nyima with a stray animal he’d saved on the side of the road or calling his mom to ask about animal care tips.” As of the time of publication, neither Goff nor Ward’s fath.
