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Northshore October 2025
Peabody ain't seen nothing like Gia Ventola. By Alyssa Giacobbe Let's be honest: the fashion crowd hasn't exactly replaced Newbury Street with Route 114, even if the fancy new Northshore Mall has a Nordstrom and an H&M. But since Topsfield native Gia Ventola opened her eponymous, 3,000-square-foot clothing boutique in a Peabody office park, she's managed to attract clients from around the world-and they're not coming for P.F. Chang's. Some may remember Ventola from her first retail iteration: Gia's World debuted in the Liberty Tree Mall in 1999, shortly after Ventola graduated from Parsons School of Design. The store sold Ventola
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