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She was sleeping on the streets, she was bruised, had been raped, and was reportedly doing sex work. Her death brought attention to the risk of needle-sharing and the benefits of needle-exchange programs and AIDS education rather than demonizing drug users. Even as troubled as she was, her exit from the fashion industry left a gaping hole and people longed for her dark-haired, brown-eyed beauty.

Gia Carangi did androgynous style like no other

And I could have done that with a German Shepherd. When she arrived in the city, Gia met with Wilhelmina Cooper, who was floored and signed her immediately. Gia embodied the contrast that the fashion industry craved during that era — in a sea of blonde, blue-eyed, beautiful women, Gia had no filter, wore no make-up and took risks.

Just like Cher or Madonna, she came to be known simply as Gia. There was no one like her, and part of her magnetism was in her boyish style. She was oh so complicated. Aren't all the best? Raised in a working-class household in Philly, with an emotionally distant father and an absent mother, Gia ditched her hometown for New York City at By chance, she came across the influential Wilhelmina Cooper who was immediately struck by her, signing Gia onto her eponymous modelling agency.

Their relationship was famously portrayed in the HBO film "Gia. Linter is a renowned makeup artist, who met Gia in September of on a photoshoot. Linter says Gia was full of Philly attitude that stood out from the rest of the models, and it's one of the things that attracted her to Gia.