KOHLMAN LOSES CANCER BATTLE
Model-turned-photographer LYNN KOHLMAN has lost her five-year battle with brain cancer.
The former Tommy Hilfiger and Donna Karan collaborator was 62 when she passed away on Sunday (14Sep08) at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York.
As a model, Kohlman was a catwalk favourite in Europe, where she was a regular for designers Yves St. Laurent and Kenzo. She also appeared in Elle and Italian Vogue, among other style glossies.
She moved from London to New York in the early 1980s and began a lengthy relationship with Perry Ellis, first as a model and then as a designer/photographer.
Her photography has appeared in the world’s top fashion magazines.
She was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2002 and underwent a double mastectomy. She then developed brain cancer a year later.
One of her most famous photos is a topless self-portrait she took after her breasts were removed.
Karan paid tribute to Kohlman on a 2005 episode of Oprah. In a Vogue article the same year, Kohlman wrote, "I have finally realized that, at 59 years old, my breasts gone, my hair fried from radiation, a scar circling my scalp like stitches on a baseball, I am beautiful."
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