Thing of Beauty (68 page)

(opposite page)
Rooftop shot at the Citicorp Building for Italian
Bazaar
(19);
Bazaar
fashion director Lizzette Kattan, who gave Gia her first major jobs (20); from Lizzette’s diary page (21); Chris von Wangenheim, the dark prince of fashion photography (22); (this page) photographer Patrick Demarchelier and Gia during the 1978
alta moda
(23); Gia and
Bazaar
publisher Peponi Della Schiava in Capri (24); Gia with a Polaroid of Lizzette and Peponi (25)

New York
magazine declaring the model wars (26); a decision in one of many lawsuits (27); top makeup artist Sandy Linter (28), who became closer with Gia after the Von Wangenheim session that produced a
Vogue
fashion page (29) and a powerful art photograph (30)

Gia mugs with her Italian
Cosmo
poster (31) and lounges in her downtown apartment (32); street chic and stoned again in New York (33)