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Gia Carangi on the cover of Vogue UK, 1979

The dark role Vogue played:
Former Vogue fashion director Jade Hobson was pretty frank and seemed genuinely ashamed about how the magazine used models who were actively using drugs. She recounted a shoot with Gia Carangi (a model who was a heroin addict and died of AIDS in the 80s) in which she could see the model’s arms covered in track marks. “We made them into something. We created a monster,” Hobson said in the film. “We maybe exploited these girls.”



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