“Gia”
4 min readSep 4, 2023
She was the world’s first supermodel, who paved the way for Naomi, Cindy, Claudia and the supermodels we know today. Her life story is the classic ‘rag-to-riches’ and she appeared on the runways of Dior, Yves Saint-Laurent and Armani, (to name just three). Her struggle to cope with this ‘new life’ led her to taking heroin, which dragged her down into ‘rags’, and eventually Aids, which she died from Aids-related complications at the young age of 26. She was Gia Carangi.