Edie Sedgwick

[droogist]

^ Drug overdose.

[firenze1321]

Some pics

[Spacemiu]

We so needed this topic!

[Mercedes]

Love these pictures you posted. I saw them on google but I could only see the thumbnail and couldn't make it bigger!

[firenze1321]

Originally Posted by Mercedes

That's a great site. I got the book a couple of years ago and I love it!

Love these pictures you posted. I saw them on google but I could only see the thumbnail and couldn't make it bigger!

I also have the book. It's wonderful if you want inspiration for different looks.

[impossibleprincess]

Sienna is perfect for the role...
of course I'm not biased...

I love the necklaces she wears-that's what I was talking about in the tassled necklaces thread...very cool. Like a rosary.

(the pic luxmode posted)

[TheSoCalledPrep]

I love Edie. I was going to post this thread after I read the Andy Warhol biography, but I just never got around to it. I don't have nearly as many pictures, though!

Tragic death.. I love Edie's leggings and huge shirt look...with big earrings...

[saturnine]

Thanks for starting this topic.

Edie is a style icon to many people but I had never actually seen many photos of her.

[Mercedes]

impossibleprincess I think that Edie is wearing only one necklace in that photo, it only looks like two because of the shadow and it does appear to be an actual rosary.

the three photos bellow are from http://www.billyname.com

[Mercedes]

Some more quotes about her look/style.

Fromhttp://www.girlslife.com

Mod 60’s Icon- Edie Sedgwick
Before the time of famous socialites Paris and Nicky Hilton, there was another Manhattan heiress ruling the nightlife of NYC. Her name was Edie Sedgwick. Most often known as artist Andy Warhol’s muse, Edie was known for her fashion-forward looks and scene-stealing persona.

Get her look: Edie most often wore black and white, in mod shapes. Try pairing a white and black striped top with a black or white miniskirt. The more straight the skirt, the better. Add some chandelier earrings and black tights and you’re look is set. To add even more drama and validity put on plenty of black liquid eyeliner and top it all of with some very sheer lipgloss.

From http://www.swinginchicks.com

HER '60s LOOK: Hers was one of the '60s' defining looks. With eyes "as big as teacups" that were the color of "twice-frozen Hershey bars" (according to two Factory regulars), Edie had a striking, unforgettable beauty that blended optimism with tragedy, energetic youth with pained experience. One could see in her the possibilities of both the night and the morning after. Her black tights outfits and fashions for Betsey Johnson defined hip New York style in the mid-'60s; said one Factory regular, "most of her wardrobe consisted of shirts with tails hanging out and leotards." Vogue magazine described her in a '65 article about "Youthquakers" as "white-haired with anthracite-black eyes and legs to swoon over." She balanced her short bleached hair with long chandelier earrings. To many she summarized what it meant to be a young and beautiful and carefree. Rock poet Patti Smith later described the first time she saw Edie's stick figure in Vogue: "She was like a thin man in black leotards and a sort of boat-necked sweater, white hair ... she was such a strong image that I thought, that's it, it represented everything to me ... radiating intelligence, speed, being connected with the moment."

From http://www.rams.demon.co.uk

Edie Sedgwick dazzled everyone with her beauty, style, glamour and wealth. She was a very bright and well spoken young lady, having a penchant for shopping. Edie purchased everything, from only the very best stores in New York, including glamourous clothes, as well as considerable quantities of make-up and earings. She managed to spend a large amount of her family inheritance.
Edie arrived at the factory - backed by such a large family history - and dazzled Warhol. Edie helped to transform the factory's reputation as a place to be seen for all New York's wealthy socialites and trend-setters. During the period from 1963 until 1965, Edie featured in leading magazines such as Time, Life and Vogue. Warhol and Edie became close friends, and received substantial media coverage due to the fact that Edie accompanied Warhol everywhere - to parties at the factory, in Manhattan, and to leading Gallery Exhibitions. Edie added a touch of style and glamour to many art openings, which arguably, resulted in Warhol receiving much more media coverage than would have normally been reserved for an up and coming artist at that time.

[nycgirl84]

This may be a bit of a stretch, but it seems like they based Amanda Peet's character from Igby Goes down somewhat on her. Similar clothes and lifestyle.


You can't see, but she's wearing black tights and v. similar shoes to the first picture of Edie.

[strawberry daiquiri]

Originally Posted by Jadee

Do you know that Sienna Miller will play the role of Edie ?
I don't really like that but I can't think of anyone else to play the role.

Well here's a link to a blair editorial of Chloe Sevigny 'playing' her...
http://www.blairmag.com/sissy/chloe1.html


This thread.
(and I can see that nycgirl. Well spotted )

[Estella*]

Originally Posted by strawberry daiquiri

Well here's a link to a blair editorial of Chloe Sevigny 'playing' her...
http://www.blairmag.com/sissy/chloe1.html

she does play the role very well! thanks for the link strawberry daiquiri!

[jennifer~]

Transcripted from Jalouse, enjoy:

EDIE ON THE EYES

She was here for a good time, not a long time, but Edie Sedgwick left her mark. By Sam Griffin

As soon as I saw the screen-print T-shirt in Old Navy with the monotone Edie-face staring out, I knew it was over. Since my college days when my first roommate (and first "cool" friend) took me under her wing, I had believed that Edie Sedgwick was the alterna-goddess. Understand, my roommate had an autographed Nick Cave book, a pierced nose, and black clothes, while I had only recently graduated from Belinda Carlisle to Madonna, and still wore neon tulle to parties. But there it was on the racks, a little sleeveless T-shirt available to anybody who wandered in off Broadway with $10.50 in their pocket. For general consumption. Not just general, but mass consumption. And it was Bedazzled!

That face. With whopping black eyes like saucers, two fingers worth of charcoal shadow across her eyelids, and her single-process crop, the doomed Warhol star looked like a pedigree Samoyed dog--after his pre-summer shearing--or a really thin panda bear. Or, if the animal similies seem out of place, food metaphors also work. Edie had dimples you could mix up a batch of brownies in and eyebrow as thick as anchovies. She wore false lashes so lush her eyelids drooped.

Chronologically, Edie fits in somewhere between the kittenish (Baby) Jane Holzer and the ethereal Viva in the Factory that was the Manhattan pop art scene of the '60s. The seventh daughter in an old New England clan that moved out to anta Barbara before she was born, Edie was here for a good time, not a long time. She died when she was twenty-eight.

As a beauty icon Edie was no Chaptick chick. Edie spent hours doing her face. Evidently, she was also a girl who could go out for twelve hours, drop by hundreds of parties and still have a face full of makeup--right down to the gold glitter dust that she meticulously applied. But then, bathroom visits for her had a whole different purpose. (All this I learned from the Edie bible, Edie: An American Biography by Jean Stein, handed down to me by aforementioned cool roommate.) For all the research and development that went into creating new long-lasting lipsticks, sweat-proof mascaras and won't-rub-off foundations, Edie had already discovered the secret back in the mid-sixties. (If I apply two coats of macara, it's on my cheekbones before they clear my salad plate.)

Edie had an unfortunate habit of falling asleep while smoking in bed. She was offended if people tried to take the cigarette from her before she dropped off, and since no one was willing to risk upsetting New York's ordained It Girl, she frequently awoke à la flambée. After one of these barbecue incidents at The Chelsea Hotel, she was taken to Lenox Hill Hospital, where her uncle visited her. He asked what he could bring her. She had only one request: "Bring me my makeup." Apparently the shopping list was as long as his arm. He was able to fill her list from the hopital drugstore, but then they didn't have the cult makeup artist brands for which we now go to the ends of the earth.

Throughout the it-might-as-well-be-a-documentary Ciao! Manhattan (about $20 on eBay), two different Edies are intercut and they couldn't look more dissimilar. The let's-just-call-it-a-snuff-movie, which finished shooting just a few months before she died, shows a long dark-haired, Ali McGraw-esque Californian hippie chick, ruminating on a modeling career in New York when she had a close-clipped silver haircut. But it's not the different colored coifs that are most patent. Somewhere between filming the New York scene in 1968 and the California one in 1971, Edie figured that a flat chest was what stood between her and Hollywood. To witness the semi-comatose ex-supertar lolling around in a bedroom built at the bottom of a drained-dry swimming pool you get some idea of just how far plastic surgery has come since the late '60s.

For the most part Edie's image lives on in high-contrast, grainy photographs. Any narcissist will tell you that both of these characteristics eliminate virtually any skin flaws. Diana Vreeland, the legendary editor who ordained Edie a "Youthquaker" in the pages of a 1965 Vogue, said, "She had lovely skin, but then I've never seen anyone on drugs that didn't." Well, DV was never lauded for her grasp of reality, and obviously didn't cocktail much in the Lower East Side, but I have to take her word as beauty gospel. I doubt, however, that the white-coated fellow at the Pond's Institute will devote many petri dishes to DV's hypothesis.

[TheSoCalledPrep]

good article...although i didn't understand half of it