Happy Birthday Doutzen Kroes: 20th Anniversary (Greatest Hits So Far)

It’s been nearly 20 years since Doutzen Kroes set out on an unlikely modeling journey, realizing success and global recognition, she couldn’t even fathom in her wildest dreams. Doutzen has accomplished about everything imaginable as a top fashion model in her career while becoming a national symbol for her home country in the Netherlands. I could go on about all the accomplishments, star power, and even activism of Doutzen Kroes, but for myself and so many around the world who admire Doutzen, her character, authenticity, and her wonderful exemplification of love and humanity.

So many fans miss her and it was the coolest thing to see her walk in ALAÏA’s Spring 2023 Collection. With such a great career, I can’t help but be happy for Doutzen. She’s a model of love and I hope she never changes. Happy Birthday, Doutzen Kroes! You’re always an inspiration.

Christy Turlington for Louis Vuitton x Yayoi Kusama

ルイ・ヴィトン X くさまやよい

LV x YK Attrape-Rêves

LV x YK OnTheGo MM

LV x YK Painted Dots Denim Mini Skirt

LV x YK Painted Dots Trench Coat

LV x YK Neverfull MM

After nearly a decade, Louis Vuitton and world renowned artist and icon, Yayoi Kusama, once again reignite their magical collaboration with a team of top models to celebrate the master artist endearing infinity polka dot motif. With the Maison’s lauded creative designs and Louis Vuitton’s savoir-faire, the collection stands as a testament to the beautiful fashion and craftsmanship of Louis Vuitton, but also a delightful celebration the art, passion, and legacy of Kusama through the polka dots she’s inspired so many across the decades.

Read more at Louis Vuitton, Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar

Rest in Peace Tatjana Patitz

“Beauty means being a good person and being there for others. In my opinion, beauty is not only about looks, but everything that makes up a person.”

Photo by Asa Tallgard

An environmental crusader, lifelong horsewoman, lover of animals, and nature, Tatjana Patitz recently passed. Since the blossoming of her career in the late 1980s, The German born and Swedish raised Tatjana charted to the very top of the fashion world and alongside her sisterhood of supers or as the press would dub The Big Five (including Turlington, Crawford, Campbell, Evangelista, and Patitz herself) aided in the ushering of a new era of top model and a decade of truly unforgettable fashion.

In contrast to her contemporaries, Tatjana wasn’t much of a topic for headlines and rather reside in one of the meccas of fashion in New York, Tatjana chose to make her home in California among the nature and animals she deeply loved. Throughout her career, industry titans like Anna Wintour, Herb Ritts, and the late Peter Lindbergh, whom she had a long-standing working relationship with, admired Patitz mysterious disposition and reserved sophistication.

Whether as a model or in her personal life, Tatjana Patitz voiced her concerns for gender equality, ageism, the treatment of animals, and protecting the environment. Tatjana had a wonderful spirit full of love and she’ll be cherished as the mother, friend, advocate, and a model of humanity she represented to so many.


Read more at Vogue, NPR, and CNN

Remembering Tatjana Patitz

Tatjana Patitz, Deauville, 1990

Originally tweeted by Peter Lindbergh Foundation (@peterlindbergh) on January 11, 2023.