Supermodel Tatjana Patitz has died

January 11, 2023

https://www.vogue.co.uk/news/article/tatjana-patitz-obituary

As the world mourns the loss of supermodel Tatjana Patitz – who passed away aged 56 – British Vogue remembers her incredible career.

Patitz famously starred alongside Naomi Campbell, Christy Turlington, Linda Evangelista and Cindy Crawford on the cover of British Vogue’s January 1990 issue, lensed by Peter Lindbergh, which has since become one of the most iconic fashion images of all time.

The era-defining cover was not her first. In fact, Tatjana covered US Vogue solo the same month as British Vogue’s portrait of the supers. Five years earlier, she was shot by Albert Watson for British Vogue’s 1985 October issue and tallied up an impressive six British Vogue covers prior to the Lindbergh photograph, including the November 1989 cover that was also captured by him.

Patitz struck up a collaborative relationship with Lindbergh that lasted 30 years and was shot by him in 2016 beside Helena Christensen and Karen Alexander for Vogue Italia’s trio of October covers, which also featured Carolyn Murphy, Isabeli Fontana, Milla Jovovich, Karen Elson, Lara Stone and Liu Wen.

Shortly after the famed January 1990 issue, she starred alongside her fellow supers in George Michael’s “Freedom! ’90” music video. Several covers for international Vogue titles followed, in addition to campaigns for Chanel, Calvin Klein and Versace.