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 enlarge | Author: Stephen Fried
Publisher: Pocket
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  79 reviews
Sales Rank: 74895
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 432
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 4.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 0671701053
Dewey Decimal Number: 659.152
EAN: 9780671701055
ASIN: 0671701053
Publication Date: June 1, 1994
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 How she threw it all away... October 20, 2007
This is a very well written book that not only details the highs and lows of out of control Supermodel Gia Carangi, but also the same rollercoaster ride that was the fashion modeling industry in the 70's. One should also read Michael Gross"s book "Model, the ugly business of beautiful women" to realize Gia wasn't the only one with problems. Hopefully one of these authors will also write a book about super male model Joe Macdonald in this same entertaining style.
 The definitive biography of Gia, as well as an excellent history of New York fashion modeling August 5, 2007
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
Gia Carangi was a tough punk kid from Philadelphia, a product of a broken working class family, who redefined beauty when she broke into the late 1970's New York fashion modeling scene. Grappling with feelings of abandonment from her family, Gia was unashamed of her drug use and heavy partying and refused to reform for anyone. She sought love and affection via drugs and a string of intense love affairs. Her life ended in tragedy, as Gia succumbed to AIDS in a welfare clinic. She was one of the first women to suffer from the Gay-Related Immunodeficiency Disease (GRID).
Stephen Fried's book is as much the story of Gia as it is a treatise on the androgynous followers on David Bowie, the transformation of high fashion in the late 1970's, the modeling agency wars, and the street drug subculture of metropolitan New York city. His treatment of all these subjects is thoroughly academic, which at times leaves the reader wishing for more of Gia. Fried has collected dozens of first-person quotes from Gia's family, friends, photographers, agents, fellow models, and other New York artists. He presents these narratives in a compelling story of the tragedy surrounding a lost girl searching for love and acceptance on the streets of New York.
This is Gia story her words July 6, 2007
These are from her stories, about her life, the people are the same. How she was the greatest model one day and the next.
 Can get VERY annoying.... July 5, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
OK great book i have to say that .... but I recall that Fried referred to the fact that Gia was not interested in every little fashion "minutiae", so then WHY WHY WHY must the author have to write about every little "minutiae" that ever happened in the fashion world!! I thought this book was supposed to be about Gia! Yea it's good but geeezzz all the detail can become very draining and throughout most of the chapters I'm wondering, "and what was going on with Gia during this time?????"...
I love this book February 20, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This back is on my shelf, the pages are dirtied and the book is worn and used. I've read it nearly 3 times. Everytime I cry (I'm such a girl).
I think that anyone who has made mistakes will connect with this book.
It tells a beautiful story, of tragedy. A gorgeous girl who lost it all.
I loved it.
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