Tatjana Patitz: The Italian “Vogue” honors her with a cover

The Italian edition of “Vogue” dedicated its February issue to Tatjana Patitz (1966-2023). The deceased model graces the cover. The black-and-white photograph, taken by star photographer Peter Lindberg (1944-2019), was taken in 1990.

“We were about to close the February issue when she suddenly passed away. ‘Vogue’ has always supported supermodels, she was one of the ‘Big Five’ of the 1990s and 2000s and worked with the photographers who wrote the story for that magazine So dedicating a cover to her quickly seemed like the right thing to do,” editor-in-chief Francesca Ragazzi said in a statement that can be read. In addition, there should be more “Vogue” pictures by Patitz and words dedicated to her by model colleagues and personalities from the modeling industry.

Patitz died at the age of 56 from complications from breast cancer. This was announced by the owner of the agency The Model Coop, Corinne Nicholas, after her death. “Tatyana is this morning [11.1.] died in California. The cause of death was breast cancer. She is survived by her son, sister and parents. Needless to say, we are all devastated by her death. She was a compassionate soul, kind and generous at heart,” Nicholas said.

In the ranks of supermodels

Patitz was born in Hamburg in March 1966 and was discovered by star photographer Peter Lindbergh when he was just 17 years old. In the 1990s, she herself became a star of the fashion world, graced numerous front pages and, alongside Cindy Crawford (56), Linda Evangelista (57), Christy Turlington (54), Naomi Campbell (52) and Claudia Schiffer (52 ) to the first so-called supermodels.