German model Tatiana Patitz has passed away at the age of 56, according to The Model CoOp agency.
Patitz is considered one of the most famous models in the eighties and nineties, as she appeared in a song that became popular with the singer George Michael.
“Tatiana passed away Wednesday morning in California,” where she was staying, wrote Corinne Nicholas, founder and president of The Model CoOp, a modeling agency in New York. Nicholas did not reveal the circumstances of the death of the 56-year-old model, according to the fashion magazine Vogue, which revealed the information.
Famed German fashion photographer Peter Lindbergh (1944-2019) was Tatiana Patitz’s favorite photographer, having been photographing her since the 1980s.
His foundation said on Twitter that it was “deeply saddened by the passing of Tatiana Patitz, Peter’s longtime friend,” praising Tatiana’s “kindness, inner beauty, and amazing intelligence.”
The chairwoman said,vogue”, Anna Wintour, Tatiana Patitz, who was born in Germany, raised in Sweden and settled in California, “was a European style icon, like Romy Schneider and Monica Vitti.”
Patitz was part of an elite group known as the Original Supermodels.Fashion models The Originals) in the 1980s and 1990s, alongside Estelle Lefebauer, Karen Alexander, Rachel Williams, Linda Evangelista, and Christy Turlington. The six women appeared in a famous photo taken on the beach in 1988, photographed by Peter Lindbergh for Vogue magazine.
Tatiana Patitz, Christy Turlington, Linda Evangelista, Naomi Campbell and Cindy Crawford also appeared in the music video for Freedom! 90 for the famous British singer George Michael, who died in 2016.
(AFP)
