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Gia Carangi

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Gia Marie Carangi (January 29, 1960 – November 18, 1986) was an American fashion model during the late 1970s and early 1980s. [1]

86 relations: Abraham Lincoln High School (Philadelphia), AfterEllen.com and TheBacklot.com, AIDS-related complex, Albert Watson (photographer), Angelina Jolie, Armani, Arthur Elgort, Atlantic City, New Jersey, Atomic (song), Bill King (photographer), Bisexuality, Blondie (band), Bloomingdale's, Calvin Klein, Chanel, Chris von Wangenheim, Christian Dior, Christian Dior SE, Cindy Crawford, Citigroup, Cocaine, Cosmopolitan (magazine), Cutex, David Bowie, Denis Piel, Desert Hearts, Diane von Fürstenberg, Diva (magazine), Dorian Leigh, Elite Model Management, Fashion photography, Ford Models, Francesco Scavullo, Gay bar, Gender role, Gia, Gianni Versace, Giorgio Armani, Glbtq.com, Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film, Hahnemann University Hospital, HarperCollins, HBO, Heroin, HIV/AIDS, Ireland, Italians, Janice Dickinson, Jean Shrimpton, John Keats, ..., Lesbian, Levi Strauss & Co., List of fashion magazines, Marco Glaviano, Maybelline, Methadone, Model (person), Mudd Club, NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt, Otto GmbH, Pennsylvania, Perry Ellis, Philadelphia, Pneumonia, Richard Avedon, Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie, Stephen Fried, Studio 54, Supermodel, The Independent, The Michigan Times, The Self-Destruction of Gia, Tomboy, Versace, Vidal Sassoon, Vogue (British magazine), Vogue (magazine), Vogue Italia, Vogue Paris, Wales, Warminster Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, Wilhelmina Cooper, Wilhelmina Models, Yves Saint Laurent (brand), Yves Saint Laurent (designer), Zoë Lund. Expand index (36 more) »

Abraham Lincoln High School (Philadelphia)

Abraham Lincoln High School, a public school located in the Mayfair section of Northeast Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

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AfterEllen.com and TheBacklot.com

AfterEllen.com, founded in April 2002, is a website that focuses on the portrayal of lesbian and bisexual women in the media.

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AIDS-related complex

AIDS-related complex, or ARC, was introduced after discovery of the HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) when the medical community became aware of the inherent difficulties associated with treating patients suffering from an advanced case of HIV which gave rise to the term Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS).

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Albert Watson (photographer)

Albert Watson (born 1942) is a Scottish photographer well known for his fashion, celebrity and art photography.

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Angelina Jolie

Angelina Jolie (born Angelina Jolie Voight, June 4, 1975) is an American actress, filmmaker, and humanitarian.

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Armani

Giorgio Armani S.P.A. is an Italian fashion house founded by Giorgio Armani which designs, manufactures, distributes and retails haute couture, ready-to-wear, leather goods, shoes, watches, jewelry, accessories, eyewear, cosmetics and home interiors.

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Arthur Elgort

Arthur Elgort (born June 8, 1940) is an American fashion photographer best known for his work with Vogue magazine.

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Atlantic City, New Jersey

Atlantic City is a resort city in Atlantic County, New Jersey, United States, known for its casinos, boardwalk, and beaches.

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Atomic (song)

"Atomic" is a hit song by the American new wave band Blondie, written by Debbie Harry and Jimmy Destri and produced by Mike Chapman.

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Bill King (photographer)

William King (1939-1987), was an American fashion photographer.

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Bisexuality

Bisexuality is romantic attraction, sexual attraction, or sexual behavior toward both males and females, or romantic or sexual attraction to people of any sex or gender identity; this latter aspect is sometimes alternatively termed pansexuality. The term bisexuality is mainly used in the context of human attraction to denote romantic or sexual feelings toward both men and women, and the concept is one of the three main classifications of sexual orientation along with heterosexuality and homosexuality, all of which exist on the heterosexual–homosexual continuum.

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Blondie (band)

Blondie is an American rock band founded by singer Debbie Harry and guitarist Chris Stein.

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Bloomingdale's

Bloomingdale's Inc. is an American department store chain; it was founded by Joseph B. and Lyman G. Bloomingdale in 1861.

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Calvin Klein

Calvin Klein Inc. is an American fashion house founded by designer Calvin Klein and childhood friend Barry K. Schwartz.

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Chanel

Chanel S.A. is a French, privately held company owned by Alain Wertheimer and Gérard Wertheimer, grandsons of Pierre Wertheimer, who was an early business partner of the couturière Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel.

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Chris von Wangenheim

Christoph von Wangenheim (21 February 1942 – 9 March 1981) was a German fashion photographer of the late 1960s through the early 1980s.

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Christian Dior

Christian Dior (21 January 1905 – 24 October 1957) was a French fashion designer, best known as the founder of one of the world's top fashion houses, also called Christian Dior, which is now owned by Groupe Arnault.

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Christian Dior SE

Christian Dior SE, commonly known as Dior, is a European luxury goods company controlled and chaired by French businessman Bernard Arnault, who also heads LVMH – the world's largest luxury group.

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Cindy Crawford

Cynthia Ann Crawford (born February 20, 1966) is an American model and actress.

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Citigroup

Citigroup Inc. or Citi (stylized as citi) is an American multinational investment bank and financial services corporation headquartered in New York City.

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Cocaine

Cocaine, also known as coke, is a strong stimulant mostly used as a recreational drug.

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Cosmopolitan (magazine)

Cosmopolitan is an international fashion magazine for women, which was formerly titled The Cosmopolitan. The magazine was first published and distributed in 1886 in the United States as a family magazine; it was later transformed into a literary magazine and eventually became a women's magazine (since 1965).

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Cutex

Cutex is a brand of nail care products, the most prevalent of which is a cuticle extract.

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David Bowie

David Robert Jones (8 January 1947 – 10 January 2016), known professionally as David Bowie, was an English singer-songwriter and actor.

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Denis Piel

Denis Piel is a French photographer and film-maker.

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Desert Hearts

Desert Hearts is a 1985 American romantic drama film directed by Donna Deitch.

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Diane von Fürstenberg

Diane von Fürstenberg, formerly Princess Diane of Fürstenberg (Diane Prinzessin zu Fürstenberg; born Diane Simone Michelle Halfin; December 31, 1946) is a Belgian-American fashion designer best known for her wrap dress.

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Diva (magazine)

DIVA is a leading lesbian magazine in the United Kingdom, published monthly.

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Dorian Leigh

Dorian Elizabeth Leigh Parker (April 23, 1917 – July 7, 2008), known professionally as Dorian Leigh, was an American model and one of the earliest modelling icons of the fashion industry.

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Elite Model Management

Elite Model Management is a chain modeling agency that originated in Paris, France in 1972 and expanded to numerous locations throughout the globe.

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Fashion photography

Fashion photography is a genre of photography which is devoted to displaying clothing and other fashion items.

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Ford Models

The Ford Modeling Agency, or as it is known today Ford Models, is an American international modeling agency based in New York City.

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Francesco Scavullo

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.

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Gay bar

A gay bar is a drinking establishment that caters to an exclusively or predominantly lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) clientele; the term gay is used as a broadly inclusive concept for LGBT and queer communities.

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Gender role

A gender role, also known as a sex role, is a social role encompassing a range of behaviors and attitudes that are generally considered acceptable, appropriate, or desirable for people based on their actual or perceived sex or sexuality.

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Gia

Gia is a 1998 biographical HBO film about the life and times of one of America's first supermodels, Gia Marie Carangi.

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Gianni Versace

Giovanni Maria "Gianni" Versace (2 December 1946 – 15 July 1997) was an Italian fashion designer and founder of Versace, an international fashion house that produces accessories, fragrances, make-up, home furnishings, and clothes.

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Giorgio Armani

Giorgio Armani (born 11 July 1934) is an Italian fashion designer.

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Glbtq.com

glbtq.com was an online encyclopedia of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer (GLBTQ) culture.

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Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film

The Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film is an award presented annually by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA).

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Hahnemann University Hospital

Hahnemann University Hospital is a tertiary care center in Center City, Philadelphia and the Center City Philadelphia teaching hospital of Drexel University College of Medicine.

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HarperCollins

HarperCollins Publishers L.L.C. is one of the world's largest publishing companies and is one of the Big Five English-language publishing companies, alongside Hachette, Macmillan, Penguin Random House, and Simon & Schuster.

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HBO

Home Box Office (HBO) is an American premium cable and satellite television network of Home Box Office, Inc..

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Heroin

Heroin, also known as diamorphine among other names, is an opioid most commonly used as a recreational drug for its euphoric effects.

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HIV/AIDS

Human immunodeficiency virus infection and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) is a spectrum of conditions caused by infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).

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Ireland

Ireland (Éire; Ulster-Scots: Airlann) is an island in the North Atlantic.

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Italians

The Italians (Italiani) are a Latin European ethnic group and nation native to the Italian peninsula.

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Janice Dickinson

Janice Doreen Dickinson (born February 16, 1955)As per Dickinson in NNDB at gives February 15, 1955, noting, "Although Dickinson has maintained in several interviews and her autobiography No Lifeguard on Duty that she was born in 1955, other sources give it as 1953 or 1954.

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Jean Shrimpton

Jean Rosemary Shrimpton (born 6 November 1942) is an English model and actress.

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John Keats

John Keats (31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821) was an English Romantic poet.

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Lesbian

A lesbian is a homosexual woman.

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Levi Strauss & Co.

Levi Strauss & Co. is a privately held American clothing company known worldwide for its Levi's brand of denim jeans.

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List of fashion magazines

This is a list of notable fashion magazines.

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Marco Glaviano

Marco Glaviano (born in Palermo, Sicily in 1942) is an Italian photographer and architect, who has worked for leading fashion magazines and brands on both sides of the Atlantic, and with many of the world's best known models.

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Maybelline

Maybelline LLC, branded as Maybelline New York, is a major American makeup brand sold worldwide and a subsidiary of French cosmetics company L'Oréal.

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Methadone

Methadone, sold under the brand name Dolophine among others, is an opioid used to treat pain and as maintenance therapy or to help with tapering in people with opioid dependence.

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Model (person)

A model is a person with a role either to promote, display or advertise commercial products (notably fashion clothing in fashion shows), or to serve as a visual aid for people who are creating works of art or to pose for photography.

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Mudd Club

The Mudd Club was a nightclub in the TriBeCa area of New York City, USA, that operated from 1978 to 1983 as a venue for underground music and counterculture events.

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NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt

The NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt, often abbreviated to AIDS Memorial Quilt, is an enormous quilt made as a memorial to celebrate the lives of people who have died of AIDS-related causes.

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Otto GmbH

The Otto Group, or Otto GmbH & Co KG (formerly Otto Versand), is a mail order company and currently one of the world's biggest e-commerce companies.

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Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania German: Pennsylvaani or Pennsilfaani), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state located in the northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.

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Perry Ellis

Perry Edwin Ellis (March 3, 1940 – May 30, 1986) was an American fashion designer who founded his eponymous sportswear house in the mid-1970s.

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Philadelphia

Philadelphia is the largest city in the U.S. state and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the sixth-most populous U.S. city, with a 2017 census-estimated population of 1,580,863.

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Pneumonia

Pneumonia is an inflammatory condition of the lung affecting primarily the small air sacs known as alveoli.

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Richard Avedon

Richard Avedon (May 15, 1923 – October 1, 2004) was an American fashion and portrait photographer.

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Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie

The Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie is an award given by the Screen Actors Guild to honor the finest acting achievements in Miniseries or Television Movie.

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Stephen Fried

Stephen Fried is an American investigative journalist, non-fiction author, essayist and adjunct professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and the University of Pennsylvania.

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Studio 54

Studio 54 is a former nightclub and currently a Broadway theatre, located at 254 West 54th Street, between Eighth Avenue and Broadway in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.

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Supermodel

A supermodel (also spelled super-model and super model) is a highly paid fashion model who usually has a worldwide reputation and often a background in haute couture and commercial modeling.

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The Independent

The Independent is a British online newspaper.

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The Michigan Times

The Michigan Times, the student newspaper of the Flint campus of the University of Michigan, was founded in 1959.

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The Self-Destruction of Gia

AN AMERICAN GIRL: The Self-Destruction of Gia is a 2003 documentary film about model Gia Carangi and her untimely death.

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Tomboy

A tomboy is a girl who exhibits characteristics or behaviors considered typical of a boy,, SpringerLink, Archives of Sexual Behavior, Volume 31, Number 4 including wearing masculine clothing and engaging in games and activities that are physical in nature and are considered in many cultures to be unfeminine or the domain of boys.

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Versace

Gianni Versace S.p.A. usually referred to simply as Versace, is an Italian luxury fashion company and trade name founded by Gianni Versace in 1978.

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Vidal Sassoon

Vidal Sassoon (17 January 1928 – 9 May 2012) was a British-American hairstylist, businessman, and philanthropist.

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Vogue (British magazine)

The British edition of the fashion magazine Vogue is currently owned and distributed by US media company Conde Nast.

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Vogue (magazine)

Vogue is a fashion and lifestyle magazine covering many topics including fashion, beauty, culture, living, and runway.

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Vogue Italia

Vogue Italia is the Italian edition of Vogue magazine.

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Vogue Paris

The French edition of Vogue magazine, Vogue Paris, is a fashion magazine that has been published since 1920.

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Wales

Wales (Cymru) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain.

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Warminster Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania

Warminster Township (also referred to as Warminster) is located in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States and was formally established in 1711.

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Wilhelmina Cooper

Wilhelmina Cooper (1 May 1939 – 1 March 1980) was a Dutch model who began with Ford Models and, at the peak of her success, founded her own agency, Wilhelmina Models, in New York City in 1967.

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Wilhelmina Models

Wilhelmina International Inc. (NASDAQ: WHLM), formerly Wilhelmina Models, is a full service modeling and talent agency headquartered in New York City, United States.

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Yves Saint Laurent (brand)

Yves Saint Laurent SAS (YSL), also known as Saint Laurent, is a French luxury fashion house founded by Yves Saint Laurent and his partner, Pierre Bergé.

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Yves Saint Laurent (designer)

Yves Henri Donat Mathieu-Saint-Laurent (1 August 1936 – 1 June 2008), professionally known as Yves Saint-Laurent, was a French fashion designer who, in 1961, founded his eponymous fashion label.

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Zoë Lund

Zoë Tamerlis Lund (February 9, 1962 – April 16, 1999), also known as Zoë Tamerlis and Zoë Tamerlaine, was an American musician, model, actress, author, producer, political activist and screenwriter.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gia_Carangi

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