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Elite Model Management. Gia Marie Carangi[2] (January 29, 1960 – November 18, 1986) was an American model, considered by some to be the first supermodel. [3][4] In 2023, Harpers Bazaar ranked her 15th among the greatest supermodels in the 1980s. [5] She was featured on the cover of numerous magazines, including multiple editions of Vogue and ...
Fashion photographer and friend Francesco Scavullo and designers Diane von Fürstenberg and Vera Wang describe Carangi's special spark, and the arc of her modeling career. The life of Gia Carangi, who through her addiction to heroin contracted, and died of AIDS in 1986 at the age of 26, was also the subject of the HBO-produced docudrama Gia ...
Heroin chic. Heroin chic is a style popularized in early- 1990s fashion and characterized by pale skin, dark circles underneath the eyes, emaciated features, androgyny and stringy hair—all traits associated with abuse of heroin or other drugs. American supermodel Gia Carangi is remembered for being the originator of the trend. [1]
Though the term “heroin chic” was originally associated with model Gia Carangi, who used heroin and died of AIDS in 1986, it is now used as a way to describe the extremely thin body type that ...
January 31, 1998. (1998-01-31) Gia is a 1998 American biographical drama television film about the life and times of one of the first supermodels, Gia Carangi. The film stars Angelina Jolie as Gia and Faye Dunaway as Wilhelmina Cooper, with Mercedes Ruehl and Elizabeth Mitchell. It was directed by Michael Cristofer and written by Cristofer and ...
Stephen Fried. Stephen Fried is an American investigative journalist, non-fiction author, and lecturer [1] who teaches at Columbia University and the University of Pennsylvania. His first book, Thing of Beauty: The Tragedy of Supermodel Gia (Pocket), a biography of model Gia Carangi and her era, was published in 1993.
As heroin use rose, so did overdose deaths. The statistics are overwhelming. In a study released this past fall examining 28 states, the CDC found that heroin deaths doubled between 2010 and 2012. The CDC reported recently that heroin-related overdose deaths jumped 39 percent nationwide between 2012 and 2013, surging to 8,257.
Died. January 6, 2004. (2004-01-06) (aged 82) New York City, U.S. Known for. Fashion photography. Francesco Scavullo (January 16, 1921 – January 6, 2004) was an American fashion photographer best known for his work on the covers of Cosmopolitan and his celebrity portraits.