Supermodel Tatjana Patitz, who graced the pages of magazines including British Vogue during the 1980s and ‘90s, has died. She was 56.
“Today, our beauty Tatjana Patitz, passed away,” Patitz’s agency, the Model CoOp, announced Wednesday on Instagram. “As one of the original Supers and through her work with Patrick Demarchelier, Herb Ritts, and Peter Lindbergh, Tatjana’s career in the fashion industry stands apart.”
Patitz died of metastatic breast cancer, a family representative told Vogue.