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Gia Carangi (1960 - 1986)
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- 1979 Chanel Creations Paris
- Harper's Bazaar November 1980 Finishing Touches
- Cosmopolitan American September 1983
- 1980 Royal Silk Advertisements
- 1979 Gianni Versace Gia Carangi, Jerry Hall, & Ros...
- 1979 Gianni Versace Gia Carangi in Swimsuit
- Vogue Paris March 1980 Photographed by Helmut Newton
- Gia Carangi Interview
- 1980 Gia Carangi in White Christian Dior Sunglasses
- 1982 Diane Von Furstenberg Liquid Assets Knits wit...
- Harper's Bazaar Italia April 1982 by Andrea Blanch
- Linea Italiana October 1982 by Paul Lange
- Cosmopolitan Greek October 1983
- Cosmopolitan British August 1979 by Scavullo
- Cosmopolitan British March 1980 by Scavullo
- Cosmopolitan American April 1982 "The Gift" From S...
- 1979 11-Page Advertisement Diane Von Furstenberg G...
- 1983 Frye Leather Boots
- 1979 Maybelline Super Shiny Lip Color Gia Carangi
- 1979 Christian Dior Umbrella Gia Carangi Photograp...
- Cosmopolitan American July 1979
- Cosmopolitan American April 1979
- 1980 Cutex Re-think Pink Gia Carangi Blowing Bubbl...
- Vogue Paris August 1980
- Vogue American August 1980
- Harper's Bazaar Italia September 1978
- Vogue American Vogue September 1979
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- Harper's Bazaar Italia November 1978
- Vogue Italia March 1980 - Giorgio Armani
- Cosmopolitan American July 1980 by Scavullo
- Cosmopolitan American January 1980 by Scavullo
- Vogue Italia Giugno 1981
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About Gia Carangi
Fashion Model. She was one of the first of the "Supermodels," and was portrayed in a television movie, "Gia" (1998) by actress Angelina Jolie, about her life and death. Born to a middle class family in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where her father owned a string of hoagie shops, she was especially close to her mother, Kathleen. When the marriage broke up in 1971, she was eleven, and her parents agreed to share custody of the several children. Her mother quickly remarried the next year. Split between two households, she felt abandoned and became rebellious as a teenager. Teen worshiping David Bowie, she went to his concerts, smoking marijuana, and leading a bisexual life style. In her mid-teens, her beautiful face and figure attracted offers to model, and her mother, thinking that modeling would help give discipline to her daughter, encouraged her to try modeling as a career. Shortly after graduating from high school in 1977, she moved to New York City to pursue a modeling career, where her beauty, street-smart attitude, and coolness with a touch of vulnerability, quickly made her a top model, and she was selected for photo covers on numerous top magazines, including "Vogue" and "Cosmopolitan." She would quickly make $10,000 a day in modeling. With fame and wealth, she quickly fell in with the decadence of the times, becoming a regular at the top, hot night spots, falling in and out of love with a variety of men and women, and moving quickly into the drug scene. In 1980, her mentor and agent, Wilhelmina Cooper, died of lung cancer, and soon she turned to heroin for comfort. Photos of her in the November 1980 issue of "Vogue" clearly show track marks on her arms from her drug abuse. In 1981, she enrolled in a detox program, but over the next several years, she would go clean, fall back into heroin abuse, go clean again, and continue to try modeling. Her drug abuse greatly affected her modeling career, and after being caught with drugs in 1983 at an Africa shoot, she was fired, never to be a model again. She moved to Atlantic City, New Jersey, where she would sleep with men for money to buy drugs, and eventually came down with HIV. When she became very sick, she turned to her mother, who had her immediately hospitalized.