Editing Gia Carangi (section)

==Legacy==
Carangi's rise to fame as an androgynous brunette in an industry full of blue-eyed blondes is believed to have started heroin chic.<ref name="phillymag.com"/> Carangi is often considered to be the first [[supermodel]],<ref name=independent/><ref name="www.divamag.co.uk"/> although that title has been applied to others, including [[Margaux Hemingway]], [[Audrey Munson]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/tragedy-audrey-munson-americas-first-supermodel/|title=The Tragedy of Audrey Munson, America's First Supermodel|date=August 21, 2016|publisher=New England Historical Society}}</ref><ref name="autogenerated2016">{{Cite book|first=James|last=Bone|title=The Curse of Beauty: The Scandalous and Tragic Life of Audrey Munson, America's First Supermodel|publisher=ReganArts|location=New York City|date=2016}}</ref> [[Lisa Fonssagrives]],<ref name="NYT">{{cite journal|author=Rosemary Ranck|title= The First Supermodel|journal=The New York Times|date=February 9, 1997|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9902E2DE153DF93AA35751C0A961958260|access-date=September 24, 2006}}</ref><ref name=Wyllie>{{cite news|title=An enduring model|url=http://news.scotsman.com/katemoss/An-enduring-model.3657497.jp|author=Wyllie, Alice|date=2008-01-10|location=Edinburgh|work=The Scotsman}}</ref> [[Dorian Leigh]],<ref name="Gross 2003">{{cite book| last = Gross| first = Michael| title = Model: The Ugly Business of Beautiful Women| publisher = [[HarperCollins]]| year = 2003| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=71PkGwAACAAJ| isbn =0-06-054163-6 }}</ref> [[Twiggy]], [[Jean Shrimpton]],<ref name="Shrimpton">{{cite journal|url=http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/special-reports/model-jean-shrimpton-recollects-the-stir-she-caused-on-victoria-derby-day-in-1965/story-e6frf8wx-1225792003365|title=Model Jean Shrimpton recollects the stir she caused on Victoria Derby Day in 1965|journal=Herald Sun|author=Magee, Antonia|date=2009-10-28|access-date=June 7, 2010|archive-date=June 14, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110614143243/http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/special-reports/model-jean-shrimpton-recollects-the-stir-she-caused-on-victoria-derby-day-in-1965/story-e6frf8wx-1225792003365|url-status=dead}}</ref> [[Cheryl Tiegs]] and [[Janice Dickinson]].<ref name="Weller 2003">{{Cite news |last=Weller |first=Krysten |title=No Lifeguard on Duty: The Accidental Life of the World's First Supermodel |newspaper=The Michigan Times |date=2003-05-16 |url=http://media.www.themichigantimes.com/media/storage/paper620/news/2003/05/16/ArtsEntertainment/No.Lifeguard.On.Duty.The.Accidental.Life.Of.The.Worlds.First.Supermodel-435779.shtml |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080916013854/http://media.www.themichigantimes.com/media/storage/paper620/news/2003/05/16/ArtsEntertainment/No.Lifeguard.On.Duty.The.Accidental.Life.Of.The.Worlds.First.Supermodel-435779.shtml |url-status=dead |archive-date=2008-09-16 |access-date=2008-01-17 }}</ref> Model [[Cindy Crawford]], who rose to prominence the year Carangi died, was referred to as "Baby Gia" because of her resemblance to Carangi.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Gross|first=Michael|date=October 30, 1989|title=The Face|journal=New York Magazine|publisher=New York Media, LLC|volume=22|issue=43|page=39|issn=0028-7369|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QOgCAAAAMBAJ&q=cindy+crawford+baby+gia&pg=PA39}}</ref> Crawford later recalled, "My agents took me to all the photographers who liked Gia: [[Albert Watson (photographer)|Albert Watson]], [[Francesco Scavullo]], [[Bill King (photographer)|Bill King]]. Everyone loved her look so much that they gladly saw me."<ref name=Voguepedia/> Additionally, Carangi, whose sexual orientation has been reported as either lesbian or bisexual, is considered a lesbian icon and is said to have "epitomized lesbian chic more than a decade before the term was coined."<ref name="www.divamag.co.uk"/><ref name=afterellen/> Argentine model [[Mica Argañaraz]] has often been compared to Carangi, whom she considers a beauty icon.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.vogue.fr/lifestyle/travel/diaporama/mica-arganarazs-perfect-summer/35325?amp|title=Mica Arganaraz's perfect summer|magazine=Vogue Paris|date=July 1, 2016|first=Jade|last=Simon}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.wmagazine.com/story/mica-arganaraz-hair-model/|title=Mica Arganaraz Drinks Lots of Water, Smokes Cigarettes|magazine=W|first=Mia|last=Adorante|date=July 24, 2015}}</ref>

Carangi's life has been the subject of several works. A biography of Carangi by [[Stephen Fried]] titled ''Thing of Beauty''—taken from the first line of [[John Keats]]' famous poem ''Endymion''—was published in 1993. ''[[Gia]]'', a biographical film starring [[Angelina Jolie]], debuted on [[HBO]] in 1998. Jolie won a [[Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film|Golden Globe Award]] and a [[Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie|Screen Actors Guild Award]] for her performance, among other accolades. A documentary titled ''[[The Self-Destruction of Gia]]'', released in 2003, showcased footage of Carangi, contemporary interviews with Carangi's family and former colleagues, including Sandy Linter, and footage of actress-screenwriter [[Zoë Lund]], herself a heroin addict, who had been commissioned to write a screenplay based upon Carangi's life at the time of her own death of drug-related causes in 1999.<ref>{{cite journal|journal=Variety|title=Review: 'The Self-Destruction of Gia'|last=Foundas|first=Scott|date=August 8, 2002|access-date=February 16, 2014|url=https://variety.com/2002/film/reviews/the-self-destruction-of-gia-1200546896/}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|publisher=FilmFanatics.net|title=Zoë Lund (Tamerlis)|date=February 13, 2010 |url=http://www.filmfanatics.net/artist-detail.asp?ID=28|access-date=February 16, 2014}}</ref>

Carangi is commemorated on the [[NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt|AIDS Memorial Quilt]] on block #5949, block #3505, and block #4113.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.aidsmemorial.org/interactive-aids-quilt | title=Interactive AIDS Quilt }}</ref>