Tatjana Patitz, one among an elite group of famed supermodels who graced journal covers inside the Eighties and ’90s, has died at age fifty six.
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Tatjana Patitz, one among an elite group of famed supermodels who graced journal covers inside the Eighties and ’90s, has died at age fifty six.
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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. — Tatjana Patitz, one among an elite group of famed supermodels who graced journal covers inside the Eighties and ’90s and appeared in George Michael’s “Freedom! ‘ninety” music video, has died at age fifty six.
Patitz’s loss of life inside the Santa Barbara, California, space was confirmed by her ny agent, Corinne Nicolas, on the mannequin CoOp agency. Nicolas mentioned the set off was sickness, however did not have extra particulars.
Patitz, who was born in Germany, raised in Sweden and later made her life in California, was typically recognized as a aspect of an elite handful of “real” supermodels, exhibiting inside the Michael video collectively with Christy Turlington, Linda Evangelista, Naomi Campbell and Cindy Crawford.
She was a favourite of vogue photographer Peter Lindbergh, who highlighted her pure magnificence in his well-known 1988 picture, “White Shirts: Six Supermodels, Malibu,” and for British Vogue’s 1990 cowl — main Michael to forged the group in his lip-syncing video, based mostly on Vogue.
The journal quoted its worldwide editorial director, Anna Wintour, as saying Patitz was “on an everyday basis the european picture of stylish, like Romy Schneider-meets-Monica Vitti. She was far much less seen than her friends — extra mysterious, extra grown-up, extra unattainable — and that had its personal attraction.”
In a 2006 interview, Patitz opined that the golden age of supermodels was over.
“There was an exact period, and the set off that occurred was as a end result of glamour was launched into it,” she was quoted as saying in status Hong Kong journal. “Now the celebrities and actresses have taken over, and the fashions are inside the backseat utterly.”
She additionally famous that fashions from her period had extra healthful physiques.
“ladies had been healthful, not these scrawny little fashions that no particular person is aware of their names anymore,” Patitz mentioned.
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