Lynn Eleanor Kohlman (August 12, 1946 – September 14, 2008) was a fashion model, photographer, author, and creative director at DKNY.

She majored in art history at Oberlin College, graduating summa cum laude, and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa society.

[4] In 1989 she was appointed the fashion director of the Donna Karan Company and later was involved with Tommy Hilfiger's launch of his women's wear line.

Today I feel more beautiful than I ever did, which is one of the main reasons the book is called Front to Back.She died on September 14, 2008, from complications from her cancer.

[1][2] In British newspaper The Guardian, Kohlman was described as "the beautiful public body of cancer":[3] She posed for the camera unclothed with both breasts gone, with titanium staples encircling her scalp after a brain operation, with hair frazzled away by radiation.