As of: 01/11/2023 7:41 p.m
In the 80s and 90s, Tatjana Patitz was one of the most sought-after models in the world. Born in Hamburg, grew up in Sweden, she emigrated to California. She died there at the age of 56.
The model Tatjana Patitz is dead. The 56-year-old native of Hamburg died in the US state of California, as her agency in New York announced. She did not provide any information on the cause of death.
In the 1980s and 1990s, Patitz was one of the most successful supermodels in the world, along with Naomi Campbell and Cindy Crawford. She has graced the covers of fashion magazines and appeared in the music video for George Michael’s “Freedom.” “Vogue” boss Anna Wintour said in her magazine: “Tatjana was always the European symbol of chic – like Romy Schneider-meets-Monica Vitti. She was much less visible than her colleagues – more mysterious, more mature, more aloof – and that had its own attraction.”
Patitz became known mainly through pictures by the star photographer Peter Lindbergh. She grew up in Sweden before emigrating to California and is survived by a son.