[1][2][3] He was born in the Bosnian town of Brčko into a Bosniak family, to parents Vezir and Ešefa.
He grew up, was educated and started modeling in the Croatian city of Rijeka.
He appeared in several magazines, automobile commercials, advertising campaigns for luxury fashion houses and fragrance brands like Paco Rabanne and Lacoste.
[5][6][7][8][9] Notably, fashion designer and photographer Karl Lagerfeld used Taletovich as a model for some of his work in the 1990s, particularly from 1992 to 1997.
[10] In 2015, Lagerfeld cast Taletovich in Chanel's film Reincarnation, portraying the night porter in a fantasy scene.