Back to the 90’s: Tatjana Patitz

Tatjana Patitz is a German model who achieved international prominence in the 1980s and 1990s representing fashion designers on runways. In 1983 at the age of 17, Patitz entered and became a finalist in the Elite Model Look, and based on a Polaroid, she was placed third by Elite Model Management founder John Casablancas. Patitz won a contract and moved to Paris to begin working as a shared the British Vogue cover with Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford, Linda Evangelista, and Christy Turlington; the portrait of the five women is regarded as the cover that sparked the supermodel phenomenon of the 1990s,helping each woman attain global appeal. Regarded as one of the “Original Supermodels“, she remains in demand periodically returning to the runway for select designers.