Supermodel Tatjana Patitz dead at 56 - Fox News

Tatjana Patitz, a 1990s supermodel, has died astatine 56.

Patitz's decease successful the Santa Barbara, California, country was confirmed to the Associated Press by her New York agent, Corinne Nicolas, astatine the Model CoOp agency. Nicolas said the origin was unwellness but did not stock further details.

Vogue archetypal announced Patitz's passing connected Wednesday. The mag quoted its planetary editorial director, Anna Wintour, arsenic saying Patitz was "always the European awesome of chic, similar Romy Schneider-meets-Monica Vitti. She was acold little disposable than her peers — much mysterious, much grown-up, much unattainable — and that had its ain appeal."

Supermodel Tatjana Patitz has died astatine 56. (Victor Virgile/File)

The exemplary roseate to fame successful the 1980s and entered her archetypal modeling contention erstwhile she was 17 successful Stockholm. Her vocation began aft she was photographed by Peter Lindbergh successful 1988 for his celebrated photo, "White Shirts: Six Supermodels, Malibu."

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Vogue helped jump-start Patitz's vocation astatine a young age.

In 1990, she modeled for British Vogue, which landed her an quality successful George Michael's "Freedom '90" euphony video. Patitz starred alongside chap supermodels Cindy Crawford, Linda Evangelista, Naomi Campbell and Christy Turlington.

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"People ever said that I looked special, that I didn't look similar anyone else," the supermodel told Vogue successful 1988. "And I was going to marque it due to the fact that of that."

Photographer Peter Lindbergh and exemplary Tatjana Patitz successful 2016. (Frazer Harrison/File)

In a 2006 interview, Patitz opined that the aureate property of supermodels was over.

"There was a existent era, and the crushed that happened was due to the fact that glamour was brought into it," she was quoted arsenic saying successful Prestige Hong Kong magazine. "Now the celebrities and actresses person taken over, and the models are successful the backseat completely."

Tatjana Patitz walks the runway astatine the Karl Lagerfeld Spring/Summer 1992 manner show. (Victor Virgile/File)

She besides noted that models from her epoch had healthier physiques.

Patitz walked the runway for respective designers, including Chanel, Karl Lagerfeld, Donna Karan, Vivienne Westwood and more.

Patitz walks the runway astatine the Chanel Spring/Summer 1991-1992 manner show. (Victor Virgile/File)

"Women were healthy, not these scrawny small models that cipher knows their names anymore," Patitz said.

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Tatjana Patitz and her son, Jonah, be the caller Tribute to Bambi 2022 successful Berlin. (Gerald Matzka/File)

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She is survived by her son, Jonah Johnson, who followed successful his mother's footsteps and became a model. In 2022, Patitz told Vogue, "Jonah is my root of happiness."

The Associated Press contributed to this report.