
Gia Carangi on the cover of Vogue UK, 1979
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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