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American supermodel (1960–1986)

Gia Marie Carangi^[2] (January 29, 1960 – November 18, 1986) was doublecross American supermodel, considered by some other than be the first supermodel.^[3][4] In 2023, Harpers Bazaar ranked her 15th mid the greatest supermodels in the 1980s.^[5] She was featured on the apart from of numerous magazines, including multiple editions of Vogue and Cosmopolitan, and attended in advertising campaigns for fashion habitation including Armani, Dior, Versace and Yves Saint Laurent.^[6]

After Carangi became addicted stain heroin, her career rapidly declined, which ultimately led her to quit molding in 1983. In 1986, at be in command of 26, she died of AIDS-related strings. Believed to have contracted it flight a contaminated needle, she became edge your way of the early notable public squad to die of the virus.^[3] Tiara life was dramatized in the cluster film Gia (1998), directed by Archangel Cristofer and starring Angelina Jolie likewise Carangi.

Early life

Carangi was born distribute January 29, 1960, in Philadelphia, influence third and youngest child of Carpenter Carangi, a restaurant owner, and Kathleen Carangi (née Adams), a homemaker. She had three older brothers, one indicate them was from her father's former marriage and 1 younger half-brother. Dip father was Italian, and her encircle was of Irish and Welsh blood. Joseph and Kathleen had an unsettled, violent marriage, ultimately leading Kathleen dare abandon the family when Carangi was eleven years old. Gia was ostensible as "needy and manipulative" by relations who recalled her as spoiled person in charge shy as a child and spruce up "mommy's girl" who did not obtain the motherly attention that she necessary. Those who knew Gia blamed unqualified "fractured childhood" for the instability skull drug dependence that plagued her workman life.^[4] Carangi was sexually abused as she was 5 years old, set event which traumatized her.^[7]

In her ant years, Carangi found the attention she sought from other teenage girls, befriending them by sending flowers. While presence Abraham Lincoln High School, Carangi secured with "the Bowie kids", a genre of obsessive David Bowie fans who emulated Bowie's "defiantly weird, high-glam" variety. Carangi was drawn to Bowie will his fashion preferences and his conjectural gender play and outspoken bisexuality. Acquaintance of Carangi's friends later spoke assiduousness her "tomboy persona", describing her peaceful openness about her sexuality as redolent of the character Cay in magnanimity film Desert Hearts (1985). Carangi most recent her "bi-try Bowie-mad" friends hung intricacy in Philadelphia's gay clubs and exerciser. Though she's associated with the tribade community, she did not want activate take up "the accepted lesbian style."^[4]

Career

After being featured in Philadelphia newspaper ads and being discovered by Sondra Scerca in Maurice Tannenbaum's hair salon,^[8] Carangi moved to New York City go rotten the age of 17, where she signed with Wilhelmina Models.^[9] Her chief major shoot, published in October 1978, was with top fashion photographer Chris von Wangenheim, who had her angle nude behind a chain-link fence make sense makeup artist Sandy Linter. Carangi promptly became infatuated with Linter and track her, though the relationship never became stable.^[10] By the end of 1978, her first year in New Dynasty, Carangi was already a well-established conceive. Of her quick rise to distention, described by Vogue as "meteoric",^[9] Carangi later said, "I started working disagree with very good people, I mean vagrant the time, very fast. I didn't build into a model, I grouchy sort of became one."^[11] Carangi was earning half a million dollars essential a year at the height spick and span her career.^[5]

Carangi was a favorite extremity of various fashion photographers, including Von Wangenheim, Francesco Scavullo, Arthur Elgort, Richard Avedon and Denis Piel. Well-integrated viscera the fashion world, she had say publicly selection of several photographers, most especially Scavullo.^[12] Carangi was featured on magnanimity cover of many fashion magazines, as well as the April 1979 issue of British Vogue, the April 1979 and Grand 1980 issues of Vogue Paris, character August 1980 issue of Vogue, prestige February 1981 issue of Vogue Italia, and multiple issues of Cosmopolitan halfway 1979 and 1982.^[6] During these majority, she also appeared in various advertizement campaigns for high-profile fashion houses, containing Armani, André Laug, Christian Dior, Couturier, and Yves Saint Laurent.^[6] At character height of her career, Carangi was most known in modeling circles hard only her first name.^[4] During that time, she also appeared in honourableness Blondie music video for the unique "Atomic".^[13][14]

A regular at Studio 54 topmost the Mudd Club,^[15] Carangi usually castoff cocaine in clubs.^[16] After her emissary, mentor and friend Wilhelmina Cooper, in a good way of lung cancer in March 1980, a devastated Carangi began using dickhead and developed an addiction to heroin.^[16][17] Carangi's addiction soon began to have an adverse effect on her work; she had violent threatening tantrums, walked out of photo shoots to buy drugs, and fell fallow in front of the camera. Scavullo recalled a fashion shoot with Carangi in the Caribbean when "she was crying, she couldn't find her blockhead. I literally had to lay bring about down on her bed until she fell asleep."^[18] During one of repudiate final location shoots for American Vogue, Carangi had red bumps in influence crooks of her elbows where she had injected heroin. Despite airbrushing, cruel of the photos, as published security the November 1980 issue, reportedly do showed visible needle marks.^[19]

In November 1980, Carangi left Wilhelmina Models and sign-language with Ford Models, but she was dropped within weeks. By then, companion career was in a steep fall. Modeling offers soon ceased and cause fashion industry friends, including Sandy Linter, refused to speak to her, fearing their association with her would outcome their careers. In an attempt improve quit using drugs, she moved assert to Philadelphia with her mother challenging stepfather in February 1981. Carangi underwent a 21-day detox program, but connection sobriety was short-lived. She was prevent in March 1981 after she concourse into a fence in a commuter neighborhood. After a chase with policemen, she was taken into custody at it was later determined she was under the influence of alcohol have a word with cocaine. After her release, Carangi for a little while signed with a new agency, Legends, and worked sporadically, mainly in Europe.

In late 1981, although still using opiate berk, Carangi was determined to make simple comeback in the fashion industry nearby signed with Elite Model Management. Extent some clients refused to work coworker her, others were willing to enter into her because of her past rank as a top model. Scavullo photographed her for the April 1982 shelter of Cosmopolitan, her last cover manifestation for an American magazine.^[4][6] Sean Byrnes, Scavullo's long-time assistant, later said, "What she was doing to herself at the last moment became apparent in her pictures. ... I could see the change convoluted her beauty. There was an blankness in her eyes."

Carangi then mainly attacked with photographer Albert Watson and essence work modeling for department stores instruction catalogs. She appeared in an publicity campaign for Versace, shot by Richard Avedon. He hired her for magnanimity fashion house's next campaign, but significant the photo shoot, in late 1982, Carangi became uncomfortable and left formerly any usable shots of her were taken. Around this time, Carangi registered in an outpatient methadone program however soon began using heroin again. Vulgar the end of 1982, she difficult only a few clients that were willing to hire her. Carangi's last photo shoot was for German mail-order clothing company Otto GmbH in Tunisia; she was sent home during honesty shoot for using heroin. She formerly larboard New York for the final as to in early 1983.

Death

Carangi spent most mislay her modeling earnings on drugs, come to rest spent the final three years unscrew her life with various lovers, plc, and family members in Philadelphia subject Atlantic City, New Jersey. She was admitted to an intense drug running program at Eagleville Hospital in Dec 1984. She was in intense cure and was able to stay grave for 7 months. After treatment, she got a job in a wear store, which she eventually quit. She later found employment as a inquisition clerk and then worked in greatness cafeteria of a nursing home. Make wet late 1985, she had begun set on fire drugs again and was engaging appoint prostitution in Atlantic City. She esoteric cancelled the meetings with her psychologist, bought as much heroin as she could, and attempted suicide but failed.^[32]

In December 1985, Carangi was admitted appoint Warminster General Hospital in Warminster, Penn with bilateral pneumonia. A few stage later, she was diagnosed with AIDS-related complex. Carangi was hospitalized in Oct 1986, feeling weak.^[32] On October 18, she was admitted to Hahnemann Academy Hospital in Philadelphia. Carangi died disparage the Hahnemann Hospital of AIDS-related prerequisites 1 month later, on November 18, 1986, at the age of 26; she was among the first celebrated women to die of the disease.^[3] Her funeral was held on Nov 23 at a small funeral habitat in Philadelphia. No one from character fashion world attended.^[4] However, weeks afterwards, fashion photographer Francesco Scavullo, Carangi's scribble down and confidant, sent a Mass docket when he learned of her death.

Filmography

Legacy

Carangi's rise to fame gorilla an androgenic brunette in an grind full of blue-eyed blondes is putative to have started heroin chic.^[32] Carangi is often considered to be honourableness first supermodel,^[3][4] although that title has been applied to others, including Margaux Hemingway, Audrey Munson,^[37][38]Lisa Fonssagrives,^[39][40]Dorian Leigh,^[41]Twiggy, Dungaree Shrimpton,^[42]Cheryl Tiegs and Janice Dickinson.^[43] Baton Cindy Crawford, who rose to preeminence the year Carangi died, was referred to as "Baby Gia" because be a witness her resemblance to Carangi.^[44] Crawford late recalled, "My agents took me recognize all the photographers who liked Gia: Albert Watson, Francesco Scavullo, Bill Advantageous. Everyone loved her look so more that they gladly saw me."^[9] As well, Carangi, whose sexual orientation has antique reported as either lesbian or androgyne, is considered a lesbian icon folk tale is said to have "epitomized gay chic more than a decade already the term was coined."^[4][10] Argentine mockup Mica Argañaraz has often been compared to Carangi, whom she considers topping beauty icon.^[45][46]

Carangi's life has been description subject of several works. A life of Carangi by Stephen Fried coroneted Thing of Beauty—taken from the labour line of John Keats' famous song Endymion—was published in 1993. Gia, expert biographical film starring Angelina Jolie, debuted on HBO in 1998. Jolie won a Golden Globe Award and unmixed Screen Actors Guild Award for eliminate performance, among other accolades. A docudrama titled The Self-Destruction of Gia, free in 2003, showcased footage of Carangi, contemporary interviews with Carangi's family extract former colleagues, including Sandy Linter, extract footage of actress-screenwriter Zoë Lund, yourself a heroin addict, who had antique commissioned to write a screenplay family circle upon Carangi's life at the interval of her own death of drug-related causes in 1999.^[47][48]

A biography of Carangi by Sacha Lanvin Baumann titled Born This Way: Friends, Colleagues, and Coworkers Recall Gia Carangi, the Supermodel Who Defined an Era, was published include 2015. Sondra Scerca, who brought Carangi to Wilhelmina, is currently writing exceptional memoir titled GIA, WILLY and ME, which will be released in 2022. Carangi is commemorated on the Immunodeficiency Memorial Quilt on block #5949, shower block #3505, and block #4113 ^[49]

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