Tatjana Patitz, ‘original’ supermodel of ’80s and ’90s, dies at 56 – National | 24CA News
Tatjana Patitz, certainly one of an elite group of famed supermodels who graced journal covers within the Eighties and ’90s and appeared in George Michael’s Freedom! ’90 music video, has died at age 56.
Patitz’s dying within the Santa Barbara, Calif., space was confirmed by her New York agent, Corinne Nicolas, on the Model CoOp company. ET reported that Patitz died after a battle with breast most cancers.
“Needless to say, we are all devastated by her passing,” Patitz’s agent mentioned. “She was a compassionate soul, kind and generous of heart and an avid advocate of animal rights.”
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Patitz, who was born in Germany, raised in Sweden and later made her life in California, was generally known as a part of an elite handful of “original” supermodels, showing within the Michael video together with Christy Turlington, Linda Evangelista, Naomi Campbell and Cindy Crawford.
She was a favorite of trend photographer Peter Lindbergh, who highlighted her pure magnificence in his well-known 1988 photograph, “White Shirts: Six Supermodels, Malibu,” and for British Vogue’s 1990 cowl — main Michael to forged the group in his lip-syncing video, in line with Vogue.
Model Tatjana Patitz wears a design by Zack Carr, for the designer’s first assortment for GFT.
Thomas Iannaccone/WWD/Penske Media by way of Getty Images
The journal quoted its world editorial director, Anna Wintour, as saying Patitz was “always the European symbol of chic, like Romy Schneider-meets-Monica Vitti. She was far less visible than her peers — more mysterious, more grown-up, more unattainable — and that had its own appeal.”
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In a 2006 interview, Patitz opined that the golden age of supermodels was over.
“There was a real era, and the reason that happened was because glamour was brought into it,” she was quoted as saying in Prestige Hong Kong journal. “Now the celebrities and actresses have taken over, and the models are in the backseat completely.”
She additionally famous that fashions from her period had more healthy physiques.
“Women were healthy, not these scrawny little models that nobody knows their names anymore,” Patitz mentioned.
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