Tatjana Patitz was a German model and actress who rose to fame in the 1980s and 1990s by representing fashion designers on the runways and in magazines such as Elle, Harper’s Bazaar, and Vogue.
Tatjana Patitz died on 11 January 2023, at the age of 56. Tatjana Patitz’s death in the Santa Barbara, California, area was confirmed by her Model CoOp agency’s New York agent, Corinne Nicolas. Nicolas stated that the cause was illness but provided no further information.
Patitz grew up in Skanör, Sweden, and was born in Hamburg, Germany. Tatjana Patitz was a member of the “Big Five” supermodels who appeared in George Michael’s 1990 music video “Freedom! ’90,” and is associated with Herb Ritts and Peter Lindbergh’s editorial, advertising, and fine-art works.
She collaborated with some of the industry’s most prolific photographers, such as Peter Lindbergh, whose January 1990 British Vogue cover shoot of Patitz, Evangelista, Turlington, Crawford, and Naomi Campbell served as the “birth certificate” of the supermodel era.