These are just my thoughts after so many years. I have a feeling that Regine was supposed to do the shoot but backed out last minute, so they asked me. I said, “ok, fine.” Then he came back into the room and he said, “nude.” And the rest #fashionhistory post shared by sandylinter on at 2:23pm PST After the shoot, as I was packing my makeup, he said to me: “I would like to do some personal photos of you and Gia,” and he walked out of the room. He had gotten that into his studio and set it up, and he positioned the two models against the fence, and the lovely pictures were taken, and they were printed for Vogue. You know a fence that we all see on the playgrounds, those wire fences. I had done a shoot for Vogue magazine one day, and I don’t think I have the photos here of the exact shoot it was with the model Lisa Vale and Gia. ? “I’ll say this on camera, this is the only time I ever say this on camera. a shoot that changed my life orchestrated by Chris and Gia.
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Grateful to finally, after 40 plus years to see the entire contact sheet…. #sandylintermakeup my interview with recently. That’s what I started doing and Gia followed my lead. I had a vision in my mind of the very glamour photos that Helmut Newton would do featuring two women.
When Gia walked out on set, she climbed the fence and was doing some very punk rock moves. I figured I would just be a prop - someone in the shadows, never really seen and only there so Gia would have someone to respond to. When I walked on set, the stylist yelled, “She has her boots on!” Chris didn’t care. I just told him I would keep my boots on because I was so short and that would make me feel better. What did I get myself into? I had just come back from a summer at Fire Island Pines, where we were all mostly nude or topless. He said, “I’m doing a personal photo, will you do it?” I agreed and he came back and said, “With Gia?” I said OK again, he left the room only to come right back with another question: “Nude?” I was freaking out a bit. Chris photographed them against a wire fence, similar to one you would see in a playground.Īfter the shoot, I was packing up my makeup, ready to leave and Chris came back into the room.
and went inside, not thinking much of it. She asked me a weird question: “How much do you weigh?” I told her 99 lbs. When I approached the building of CVW’s studio, Regine was outside. Chris was married to a drop-dead gorgeous model named Regine Jaffry. I was booked to do a shoot for American Vogue with Chris and with Gia and another model named Lisa Vale. She had a saying that she was always ready to go for the “gusto.” Still, Gia and Chris obviously had worked something out and she was going for it. Nudity was allowed in European magazines but not in America, really. This was 1978 and that was not a move fashion models were doing back then. At one point, he gives Gia a nod and she drops the side of her dress from one shoulder to expose one of her breasts. I stood behind Chris as I watched them both work.
Gia introduced herself and I couldn’t pronounce her name at first. I’ve actually heard over the years that she could do her own makeup and the truth is, no. It was a nice gesture but looked horrible. I said, “What’s this? I’ll have to take this off.” She told me her agency said to come makeup ready because there would be a few girls on the shoot.
She already had foundation on but it was applied very badly. When it came time to do Gia’s makeup, I walked over to look at her face. I could see all this out of the corner of my eye and I remember thinking, Oh, she’s trouble. She picked up my punk sunglasses, put them on and lit up a cigarette. She sat down in the chair and immediately put her feet up on the makeup table. A few models walked in and there was Gia Carangi. I got booked for a photo shoot for Harper’s Bazaar Italia in 1978 with one of the coolest photographers ever - Chris von Wangenheim - at the Citicorp Building, a new building at the time, which worked very well for Chris, who was into modern design.
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