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Before Naomi, Christy, Linda, Claudia and Cindy, there was Gia. A blast of freshness in an industry dominated by All-American girls. Gia Carangi's brief, albeit intense, tenure as the world's first supermodel saw her churn out Vogue cover after cover, working with Helmut Newton, Arthur Elgort and famously Chris von Wangenheim for that chain-fence shoot. Just like Cher or Madonna, she came to be known simply as Gia. There was no one love her, and part of her magnetism was in her boyish style.
She was oh so complicated. Aren't all the best? Raised in a working-class household in Philly, with an emotionally distant father and an absent mother, Gia ditched her hometown for New York City at By chance, she came across the influential Wilhelmina Cooper who was immediately struck by her, signing Gia onto her eponymous modelling agency. Together they developed a mother-daughter closeness that made Cooper's passing in all the more difficult for Gia, who spiralled into a pattern of substance abuse which would come to define the rest of her career, and despite various
Makeup Artist Sandy Linter Recalls Gia Carangi Romance: &#;We Did Admire Each Other&#;
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Gia Carangi, often referred to as one of the world&#;s first supermodels, is perhaps best known simply as Gia. She burst onto the scene in the late s, traveled the world, posed for adj photographers, landed on the covers of Vogue and Cosmopolitan, and fronted campaigns for Dior, Versace and Yves Saint Laurent. While her life had all the elements one would expect of a fashion darling in Recent York, how it ended serves as the most cautionary of tales. Carangi died of AIDS in at the age of 26 after battling a heroin addiction that derailed her once white-hot career. Her story — told in HBO&#;s Gia starring Angelina Jolie — continues to inspire headlines and an Instagram account with 11, followers. In honor of Pride month and in a year that would&#;ve marked Carangi&#;s 60th birthday, legendary makeup artist Sandy Linter opens up to The Hollywood Reporter about their surprise romance, a St. Barts getaway and the terminal time she saw her.
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Photographed by Albert Watson for Vogue Paris August
Vogue Italia February , by Renato Grignaschi.
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The story of Gia Carangi: world’s first supermodel who died of Aids at 26
Before Peter Lindbergh immortalised Naomi, Cindy, Claudia, Linda, Christy, and Tatjana on the cover of Vogue in , and launched them in their ascension to icon status, there was Gia. Arguably the world’s first supermodel, Gia Carangi paved the way for Campbell, Turlington, and Crawford – with the latter billed ‘Baby Gia’ when she made her runway debut.
Gia’s life echoed the classic rags-to-riches story, only, eventually, the riches made way for rags again. While her blue-collar background gave her an edge in the world of high fashion, and appearances on the runways of Dior, Yves Saint Laurent, Calvin Klein, and Armani saw her experience a meteoric rise to fame, behind the scenes all was not well. Struggling to cope with the pressures of her modern career, Gia turned to heroin, and, despite kicking the habit a number of times and staging multiple comebacks, in she died of Aids-related complications at just
Twelve years after her death, Gia’s tragic story was committed to a film, with a young, almost un