Editing Gia Carangi

{{short description|American supermodel (1960–1986)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=February 2021}}
{{Infobox model
| name          = Gia Carangi
| image         = giafront.jpg
| image_size    = 
| caption       = Carangi in 1982
| alt           = 
| birth_name    = Gia Marie Carangi
| birth_date    = {{birth date|1960|01|29|mf=y}}
| birth_place   = [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]], U.S.
| death_date    = {{death date and age|1986|11|18|1960|01|29|mf=y}}
| death_place   = Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
| death_cause   = [[HIV/AIDS|AIDS]]-related complications
| other_names   = 
| nationality   =
| citizenship   = 
| occupation    = Model
| yearsactive   = 1978–1983
| height        = {{height|m=1.73}}<ref>{{cite web |title=Gia: The tragic tale of the world's first supermodel |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/gia-the-tragic-tale-of-the-world-s-first-supermodel-311535.html |website=independent.co.uk |publisher=Independent Digital News and Media Limited |access-date=2 July 2024 |location=London, United Kingdom |date=10 September 2005}}</ref>
| hair_color    = Brown
| eye_color     = Brown
| agency        = [[Wilhelmina Models]]<br/>[[Ford Models]]<br/>Legends<br/>[[Elite Model Management]]
}}

'''Gia Marie Carangi'''<ref name="Fried">{{cite book|vauthors=Fried S|author-link=Stephen Fried|title =Thing of Beauty|isbn = 978-1451676402|publisher=Simon and Schuster|year=2011|access-date=February 9, 2019|page=14|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E55UYXoilEYC&pg=PA14}}</ref> (January 29, 1960{{spaced ndash}}November 18, 1986) was an American supermodel, considered by some to be the first [[supermodel]].<ref name=independent>{{cite web |url=http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article311535.ece |title=Gia: The tragic tale of the world's first supermodel |first=Paul |last=Vallely |date=2005-09-10 |access-date=2007-05-28 |work=The Independent |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080101071428/http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article311535.ece |archive-date=2008-01-01 }}</ref><ref name="www.divamag.co.uk">{{cite web| last = Carolin| first = Louise| title = Gia – the tragedy of a lesbian supermodel| work = Diva| url = http://www.divamag.co.uk/diva/features.asp?AID=2076| access-date = 2008-01-17| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070325034239/http://www.divamag.co.uk/diva/features.asp?AID=2076| archive-date = 2007-03-25}}</ref> In 2023, Harpers Bazaar ranked her 15th among the greatest supermodels in the 1980s.<ref name=":0">{{Citation |last=Burri |first=Thomas |title=III The 1980s |date=2015 |work=The Greatest Possible Freedom |pages=53–98 |publisher=Nomos|doi=10.5771/9783845265490-53 |isbn=978-3-8452-6549-0 |doi-access=free }}</ref> She was featured on the cover of numerous magazines, including multiple editions of ''[[Vogue (magazine)|Vogue]]'' and ''[[Cosmopolitan (magazine)|Cosmopolitan]]'', and appeared in advertising campaigns for fashion houses including [[Armani]], [[Dior]], [[Versace]] and [[Yves Saint Laurent (fashion house)|Yves Saint Laurent]].<ref name="Career Overview">{{cite web|title=Gia Marie Carangi (Overview)|url=http://www.fashionmodeldirectory.com/models/Gia+Marie_Carangi/|work=Fashion Model Directory|access-date=31 May 2013}}</ref>

After Carangi became addicted to [[heroin]], her career rapidly declined, which ultimately led her to quit modeling in 1983. In 1986, at age 26, she died of [[HIV/AIDS|AIDS]]-related complications. Believed to have contracted it from a contaminated needle, she became one of the early notable women to die of the virus.<ref name=independent/> Her life was dramatized in the television film ''[[Gia]]'' (1998), directed by [[Michael Cristofer]] and starring [[Angelina Jolie]] as Carangi.

==Early life==
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Carangi was born on January 29, 1960, in Philadelphia, the third and youngest child of Joseph Carangi, a restaurant owner, and Kathleen Carangi (''née'' Adams), a homemaker. She had three older brothers, one of them was from her father's previous marriage and one younger half-brother. Her father was Italian, and her mother was of Irish and Welsh ancestry. Joseph and Kathleen had an unstable, violent marriage, ultimately leading Kathleen to abandon the family when Carangi was eleven years old. Gia was described as "needy and manipulative" by relatives who recalled her as spoiled and shy as a child and a "mommy's girl" who did not receive the motherly attention that she desired. Those who knew Gia blamed her "fractured childhood" for the instability and drug dependence that plagued her adult life.<ref name="www.divamag.co.uk"/> Carangi was sexually abused when she was 5 years old, an event which traumatized her.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Fried |first=Stephen |date=2008-02-29 |title=Thing of Beauty |url=https://www.phillymag.com/news/2008/02/29/thing-of-beauty/ |access-date=2024-06-16 |website=Philadelphia Magazine |language=en-US}}</ref>

In her adolescent years, Carangi found the attention she sought from other teenage girls, befriending them by sending flowers. While attending [[Abraham Lincoln High School (Philadelphia)|Abraham Lincoln High School]], Carangi bonded with "the Bowie kids", a group of obsessive [[David Bowie]] fans who emulated Bowie's "defiantly weird, high-glam" style. Carangi was drawn to Bowie for his fashion preferences and his ambiguous [[Gender role|gender play]] and outspoken bisexuality. One of Carangi's friends later spoke of her "[[tomboy]] persona", describing her relaxed openness about her sexuality as reminiscent of the character Cay in the film ''[[Desert Hearts]]'' (1985). Carangi and her "bi-try Bowie-mad" friends hung out in Philadelphia's gay clubs and bars. Though she's associated with the lesbian community, she did not want to take up "the accepted lesbian style."<ref name="www.divamag.co.uk"/>

==Career==
After being featured in Philadelphia newspaper ads and being discovered by Sondra Scerca in Maurice Tannenbaum's hair salon,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Rmo |first=Mares |title=Love and Friendship > Sondra Scerca |url=https://giacarangilivedhere.org/love-friendship/sondra-scerca/ |website=Gia Carangi Lived Here, Never To Be Forgotten}}</ref> Carangi moved to New York City at the age of 17, where she signed with [[Wilhelmina Models]].<ref name=Voguepedia>{{cite web|url=http://www.vogue.com/voguepedia/Gia_Carangi|publisher=Vogue.com|title=Voguepedia: Gia Carangi|access-date=February 16, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222020249/http://www.vogue.com/voguepedia/Gia_Carangi|archive-date=February 22, 2014|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}</ref> Her first major shoot, published in October 1978, was with top fashion photographer [[Chris von Wangenheim]], who had her pose nude behind a chain-link fence with makeup artist Sandy Linter. Carangi immediately became infatuated with Linter and pursued her, though the relationship never became stable.<ref name=afterellen>{{cite web |url=http://www.afterellen.com/archive/ellen/column/2005/12/backintheday.html |title=Back in the Day: Out on the Catwalk |first=Malinda |last=Lo |date=2005-12-13 |access-date=2007-05-28 |work=AfterEllen.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100413062441/http://www.afterellen.com/archive/ellen/column/2005/12/backintheday.html |archive-date=2010-04-13 }}</ref> By the end of 1978, her first year in New York, Carangi was already a well-established model. Of her quick rise to prominence, described by ''Vogue'' as "meteoric",<ref name=Voguepedia/> Carangi later said, "I started working with very good people, I mean all the time, very fast. I didn't build into a model, I just sort of became one."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.phillymag.com/articles/thing-of-beauty/|title=Thing of Beauty|last=Fried|first=Stephen|date=November 1988|publisher=phillymag.com|access-date=March 14, 2013|archive-date=April 19, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130419021850/http://www.phillymag.com/articles/thing-of-beauty/|url-status=dead}}</ref> Carangi was earning half a million dollars in a year at the height of her career.<ref name=":0" />

Carangi was a favorite model of various fashion photographers, including Von Wangenheim, [[Francesco Scavullo]], [[Arthur Elgort]], [[Richard Avedon]] and [[Denis Piel]]. Well-integrated within the fashion world, she had the selection of several photographers, most notably Scavullo.<ref name=glbtqscavullo>{{cite web|url=http://www.glbtq.com/arts/scavullo_f.html |title=Scavullo, Francesco (1929–2004) |last=Rapp |first=Linda |date=2005-04-17 |work=glbtq.com |access-date=2007-05-28 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080509062715/http://www.glbtq.com/arts/scavullo_f.html |archive-date=2008-05-09 }}</ref> Carangi was featured on the cover of many fashion magazines, including the April 1979 issue of ''British Vogue'', the April 1979 and August 1980 issues of ''Vogue Paris'', the August 1980 issue of ''Vogue'', the February 1981 issue of ''Vogue Italia'', and multiple issues of ''Cosmopolitan'' between 1979 and 1982.<ref name="Career Overview"/> During these years, she also appeared in various advertising campaigns for high-profile fashion houses, including Armani, André Laug, Christian Dior, Versace, and Yves Saint Laurent.<ref name="Career Overview" /> At the height of her career, Carangi was most known in modeling circles by only her first name.<ref name="www.divamag.co.uk"/> During this time, she also appeared in the [[Blondie (band)|Blondie]] music video for the single "[[Atomic (song)|Atomic]]".<ref>{{Citation|last=BlondieVEVO|title=Blondie – Atomic|date=2010-11-16|url=https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=O_WLw_0DFQQ| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/O_WLw_0DFQQ| archive-date=2021-12-11 | url-status=live|access-date=2017-07-21}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.giacarangi.com/gia-carangi-in-blondies-atomic-video/|title=Gia Carangi in Blondie's "Atomic" Video {{!}} Gia|website=Gia|language=en-US|access-date=2017-07-21}}</ref>

A regular at [[Studio 54]] and the [[Mudd Club]],<ref name=andrejkoymasky>{{cite web|url=http://andrejkoymasky.com/liv/fam/bioc1/cara3.html |title=Gia Marie Carangi |date=2005-03-28 |access-date=2007-05-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070404155854/http://andrejkoymasky.com/liv/fam/bioc1/cara3.html |archive-date=2007-04-04 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Carangi usually used cocaine in clubs.<ref name=carangiproject>{{cite web|url=http://www.thegiacarangiproject.com/bio_main.html |title=Gia Carangi: A Biography |access-date=2007-05-28 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070521033817/http://www.thegiacarangiproject.com/bio_main.html |archive-date=21 May 2007 }}</ref> After her agent, mentor and friend [[Wilhelmina Cooper]], died of lung cancer in March 1980, a devastated Carangi began using drugs and developed an addiction to heroin.<ref name=carangiproject/><ref>{{cite book|last=Fried|first=Stephen|title=Thing of Beauty: The Tragedy of Supermodel Gia|location=New York|publisher=Pocket Books|year=1994|pages=[https://archive.org/details/thingofbeautytra00frie/page/232 232, 234]|isbn=0-671-70105-3|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/thingofbeautytra00frie/page/232}}</ref> Carangi's addiction soon began to affect her work; she had violent temper tantrums, walked out of photo shoots to buy drugs, and fell asleep in front of the camera. Scavullo recalled a fashion shoot with Carangi in the Caribbean when "she was crying, she couldn't find her drugs. I literally had to lay her down on her bed until she fell asleep."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.geoclan.com/style/articles/05/TheLifeandDeathofGiaCarangi.html |title=The Life and Death of Gia Carangi – self-referential? |publisher=Geoclan.com |access-date=2013-12-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100311232233/http://www.geoclan.com/style/articles/05/TheLifeandDeathofGiaCarangi.html |archive-date=2010-03-11 |url-status=dead }}</ref> During one of her final location shoots for American ''Vogue'', Carangi had red bumps in the crooks of her elbows where she had injected heroin. Despite [[Airbrush#Photo retouching|airbrushing]], some of the photos, as published in the November 1980 issue, reportedly still showed visible needle marks.<ref>{{cite book|last=Pollock|first=Griselda |author-link=Griselda Pollock |author2=Bal, Mieke |author2-link=Mieke Bal |title=Conceptual Odysseys: Passages to Cultural Analysis|publisher=I.B.Tauris|year=2008|page=97|isbn=978-1-84511-523-4}}</ref>{{sfn|Fried|1994|p=246}}

In November 1980, Carangi left Wilhelmina Models and signed with [[Ford Models]], but she was dropped within weeks. By then, her career was in a steep decline. Modeling offers soon ceased and her fashion industry friends, including Sandy Linter, refused to speak to her, fearing their association with her would harm their careers. In an attempt to quit using drugs, she moved back to Philadelphia with her mother and stepfather in February 1981.{{sfn|Fried|1994|pp=247, 252–253}} Carangi underwent a 21-day detox program, but her sobriety was short-lived.{{sfn|Fried|1994|p=256}} She was arrested in March 1981 after she drove into a fence in a suburban neighborhood. After a chase with police, she was taken into custody where it was later determined she was under the influence of alcohol and cocaine. After her release, Carangi briefly signed with a new agency, Legends, and worked sporadically, mainly in Europe.{{sfn|Fried|1994|pp=262–261}}

In late 1981, although still using drugs, Carangi was determined to make a comeback in the fashion industry and signed with [[Elite Model Management]]. While some clients refused to work with her, others were willing to hire her because of her past status as a top model. Scavullo photographed her for the April 1982 cover of ''Cosmopolitan'', her last cover appearance for an American magazine.<ref name="www.divamag.co.uk"/><ref name="Career Overview"/> Sean Byrnes, Scavullo's long-time assistant, later said, "What she was doing to herself finally became apparent in her pictures. ... I could see the change in her beauty. There was an emptiness in her eyes."{{sfn|Fried|1994|pp=272, 274–275}}

Carangi then mainly worked with photographer [[Albert Watson (photographer)|Albert Watson]] and found work modeling for department stores and catalogs. She appeared in an advertising campaign for ''Versace'', shot by Richard Avedon. He hired her for the fashion house's next campaign, but during the photo shoot, in late 1982, Carangi became uncomfortable and left before any usable shots of her were taken.{{sfn|Fried|1994|p=284}} Around this time, Carangi enrolled in an outpatient [[methadone]] program but soon began using heroin again.{{sfn|Fried|1994|p=290}} By the end of 1982, she had only a few clients that were willing to hire her. Carangi's final photo shoot was for German mail-order clothing company [[Otto Group|Otto GmbH]] in Tunisia;{{sfn|Fried|1994|pp=275, 284}} she was sent home during the shoot for using heroin. She left New York for the final time in early 1983.{{sfn|Fried|1994|pp=293–294}}

==Death==
Carangi spent most of her modeling earnings on drugs, and spent the final three years of her life with various lovers, friends, and family members in [[Philadelphia]] and [[Atlantic City, New Jersey]]. She was admitted to an intense drug treatment program at [[Eagleville, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania|Eagleville]] Hospital in December 1984.{{sfn|Fried|1994|p=324}} She was in intense therapy and was able to stay sober for 7 months. After treatment, she got a job in a clothing store, which she eventually quit.{{sfn|Fried|1994|p=352}} She later found employment as a checkout clerk and then worked in the cafeteria of a nursing home. By late 1985, she had begun using drugs again and was engaging in prostitution in Atlantic City.{{sfn|Fried|1994|pp=356–357}} She had cancelled the meetings with her therapist, bought as much heroin as she could, and attempted suicide.<ref name="phillymag.com">{{Cite web |last=Fried |first=Stephen |date=2008-02-29 |title=Thing of Beauty |url=https://www.phillymag.com/news/2008/02/29/thing-of-beauty/ |access-date=2024-08-28 |website=Philadelphia Magazine |language=en-US}}</ref>

In December 1985, Carangi was admitted to Warminster General Hospital in [[Warminster, Pennsylvania]] with bilateral [[pneumonia]]. A few days later, she was diagnosed with [[AIDS-related complex]].{{sfn|Fried|1994|pp=360–361}} Carangi was hospitalized in October 1986, feeling weak.<ref name="phillymag.com"/> On October 18, she was admitted to [[Hahnemann University Hospital]] in Philadelphia.{{sfn|Fried|1994|p=381}} Carangi died at the Hahnemann Hospital of AIDS-related complications one month later, on November 18, 1986, at the age of 26.{{sfn|Fried|1994|p=387}}<ref name=independent/> Her funeral was held on November 23 at a small funeral home in Philadelphia. No one from the fashion world attended.<ref name="www.divamag.co.uk"/> However, weeks later, fashion photographer [[Francesco Scavullo]], Carangi's friend and confidant, sent a [[Mass card]] when he learned of her death.{{sfn|Fried|1994|pp=389–390}}

==Filmography==
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:90%;"
! colspan=4 style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Film
|- align="center"
! style="background: #CCCCCC;" | Year
! style="background: #CCCCCC;" | Film
! style="background: #CCCCCC;" | Role
! style="background: #CCCCCC;" | Notes
|-
| 2003
| [[The Self-Destruction of Gia]]
| Self
| Archive footage, posthumously released
|-
|- align="center"
! colspan=4 style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Television
|- align="center"
! style="background: #CCCCCC;" | Year
! style="background: #CCCCCC;" | Title
! style="background: #CCCCCC;" | Role
! style="background: #CCCCCC;" | Notes
|-
| 2009–2011
| [[20 to One|20 to 1]]
| Self 
| Archive footage, posthumously released, episode: Sizzling Superstars, Adults Only 20 to 1: Sizzling Supermodels
|-
|- align="center"
! colspan=4 style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Music video
|- align="center"
! style="background: #CCCCCC;" | Year
! style="background: #CCCCCC;" | Title
! style="background: #CCCCCC;" | Role
! style="background: #CCCCCC;" | Artists
|-
| 1980
| [[Atomic (song)|Atomic]]
| girl with goggles
| [[Blondie (band)|Blondie]]
|-
|}

==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>

==Designers and brands represented==
* ''[[Armani]]''
* ''[[Bloomingdale's]]''
* ''[[Citigroup|Citicorp]]''
* ''[[Cutex]]''
* ''[[Dior|Christian Dior]]''
* ''[[Perry Ellis (brand)|Perry Ellis]]''
* ''[[Diane von Fürstenberg]]''
* ''[[Pino Lancetti|Lancetti]]''
* ''[[Levi Strauss & Co.|Levi's]]''
* ''[[Maybelline]]''
* ''[[Yves Saint-Laurent (brand)|Yves Saint Laurent]]''
* ''[[Versace]]''
* ''[[Vidal Sassoon]]''<ref name="Career Overview"/>

== Further reading ==
Baumann, Sacha Lanvin. ''Born This Way: Friends, Colleagues, and Coworkers Recall Gia Carangi, the Supermodel Who Defined an Era''. 2016.

==References==
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==External links==
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* {{IMDb name|1817020|Gia Carangi}}
* {{Find a Grave|5311}}

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