Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Model Gia Carangi (Photo by Laurie Sagalyn/WWD/Penske Media via Getty Images); Editorial use only. No book cover usage. Mandatory ...

Gia Carangi, credited as being the world’s first ‘supermodel,’ would have turned 57 today. The US fashion model, who died in 1986 at the age of 26 from complications resulting from AIDS, had a short ...

series of these collections appeared in American Vogue , 1979. Gia Marie Carangi (January 29, 1960 – November 18, 1986) was an American fashion model considered possibly the first super model. A ...

Gia Marie Carangi (1960–1986) was an American fashion model, considered possibly the first super model. A biography of Carangi by Stephen Fried called Thing of Beauty (a reference to the famous John ...