Edie Sedgwick

[Meg]

I find it so sad that she sort of fell from the Warhol scene and almost as if she was replaced.

[Mercedes]

Originally Posted by Meg

I find it so sad that she sort of fell from the Warhol scene and almost as if she was replaced.

I think it depends what source you look at. Some say that she was replaced, others say that that's a myth and she chose to leave the scene to pursue an acting career...

Originally Posted by 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.

Not a stretch at all! Her look in that movie was based on Edie's.

here's an article outlining her look and the products that were used to achieve it.

from http://archives.cnn.com/

While Igby (Kieran Culkin) spends the duration of this dour comedy fleeing from the dysfunction wealth and privilege have dealt him, Rachel (Amanda Peet), the mooching choreographer mistress of Igby's godfather (Jeff Goldblum), desperately latches on to this old-money world.

"She starts out as this stunning, strong-willed woman," says makeup artist Eileen Kastner-Delago. "Her look is clean and self-confident." A modern-day Edie Sedgwick (from her heavily made-up eyes to her black tights and sixties-hip fashions), Rachel suffers a tragic downward spiral toward drug abuse and despair when her Upper East Side love affair flounders.

The deeper she drifts the more unkempt her sleek bob and makeup become. Says Kastner-Delago, "She's like a wild creature that got loose."



Hair

"The shape is retro, but it's styled in a contemporary way," says hairstylist Quentin Harris of Peet's dark brown and blond-streaked layered sixties bob. Harris began by applying Bumble and Bumble Leave In conditioner and Straight gel to Peet's damp hair before blowing it dry with a large-barrel brush. Then to give her naturally wavy tresses modern flair he straightened them with a flatiron, after which he created a side part and back-combed the crown for added height. Finally, he pulled her hair into a low, tucked ponytail. Bumble and Bumble styling wax created a sleek finish.



Eyes

"Amanda has amazing, powerful eyes," says Kastner-Delago, who began by defining Peet's brows, which helped create "a more in-depth character." To avoid a "tattooed" look, she applied both shades from Paula Dorf Brow Duet in Brunette. Next she washed lids and lower lash lines with MAC eye shadow in Shale (mauve plum) and contoured the socket line with MAC shadow in Sketch (burgundy plum). "I stayed with purple because of her olive skin and blue eyes," says Kastner-Delago. "Her eyes just popped."

She lined upper lashes with MAC Crème liner in black, softening with MAC shadow in Purple Haze, which she also blended along lower rims. To "emphasize and enrich," she rimmed inside lower lash lines with Chanel Precision Eye Definer in Violet Smoke. The final touch: Two to three coats of Maybelline Great Lash waterproof mascara in Very Black.



Face

To ensure Peet's eyes remained the focus of her face, Kastner-Delago skipped blush entirely and even kept foundation to a minimum. "I wanted to keep her face fresh-looking," she says. Kastner-Delago applied MAC Face and Body foundation in N4 lightly around the nose and mouth, "just to even out the skin," and dabbed Laura Mercier Secret Camouflage in SC-3 under the eyes. She finished with a light dusting of Lorac Translucent Touch Up powder in TL 3.



Lips

Kastner-Delago used a velvety pink lip tint to balance Peet's heavily defined eyes. To unlined lips, she swept on Nars Lip Lacquer in Butterfield 8. Then for added shimmer she dabbed Nars The Multiple in Copacabana on center of bottom and top lips.

[Mercedes]

http://www.qedcorp.com, http://www.warholstars.org



the 3 pictures bellow from http://www.warholstars.org





http://www.billyname.com



and some more quotes on Edie

from http://newyorkmetro.com

Aside from the all-night parties, getting dressed was, for a while, the main activity in Edie Sedgwick’s life. A signature style of black tights and geometric barely-there shift dresses soon emerged. Despite a barrage of desperate pleading, committing to one man, or (God forbid) a husband, was of no interest; the prep-schooler could barely commit to finishing a sentence -- or a cigarette.
That Edie became Warhol’s next “superstar” seems, in retrospect, inevitable. The two master manipulators were, for a while, each other’s perfect match. They even began to dress alike, in matching striped boat-neck jerseys.

from www.qedcorp.com

Edie's Face was everywhere. Diana Vreeland featured her in Vogue Magazine . She was in all the teenybopper rags. Her short hair, black tights, and great legs were always moving in a maelstrom of whirlwind activity, from limo to club to limo again, in an endless frenzied spiral. It was 1965. For a while Andy worshipped androgenous Edie. He made her

[font=Verdana]a star. Warhol's "factory" provided a nucleus around which Edie and her entourage spun their high speed orbits, high energy particles soon to crash. Her face and style impressed everyone.

[lady grey]

Originally Posted by Meg

I find it so sad that she sort of fell from the Warhol scene and almost as if she was replaced.

if you read victor bockris' warhol book, edie was constantly asking andy to be paid for her work in his films. he always put her off and offered peanuts explaining that everyone worked for him for free. once edie got to be a media sensation by 1966 she fell in with bob dylan's crowd which was a harder-drug crowd than warhols as bockris describes. also dylan & co. convinced edie that she was just being used by warhol. it is true that her drug use started when she feel in with the factory scene.
besides her serious drug use, she also was committed to several hospitals for mental instability.
many of warhol's artier films are rarely shown but 'poor little rich girl' starring edie is shocking, filmed at a park avenue apartment where edie sits down to dinner alone & mumbles & free associates for about a half hour. shes dressed amazingly in a foprmal gown & so pretty. however her incoherent speech and wacky ideas are troubling, still its the core of the film.
theres also a film I think caled "bed' with edie making out & groping a guy in Bed. its pretty erotic yet also matter of fact & as I recall the soundtrack & some of the images are pretty messy. I saw these 2 at the whitney museum maybe 10 years ago. i still have a book from that show which describes other warhol films. his 'art' films like this are rarely seen although I believe the museum in pittsburgh screens some & I also saw a show at ICP a few years ago with a few more silent shorts, like 'eat' and 'kiss.'
its odd considering how commonplace warhol related items are for sale that his art films have never been sold. his later longer works like chersea girls or frankenstein are seen a lot but his more experimental, and important, silent b&w shorts are less seen. the empire state film is very important and maybe his most significant silent film. many people think his silent films suck but they are essential 60s experiemntal docu shorts that are studied in film school & an important part of his artwork, and he is often cited as one of the 3 or 5 most important artists of the 20th century.

[impossibleprincess]

Originally Posted by 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

Oh I didn't mean she was wearing two in that pic-I meant the necklaces she wear in general.

I like her earrings too.

[impossibleprincess]

Has anyone seen the Will Young "Light My Fire" video?? There's a girl in it that could be based on her, she has exactly the same styling but with brunette hair. Stick thin, loads of eye makeup, big jewellery, that sort of thing.

[Meg]

I love will young's version of that song. anyway, I'm going to rewatch the video to see that girl because I don't remember it.

[angelanna]

Originally Posted by impossibleprincess

Has anyone seen the Will Young "Light My Fire" video?? There's a girl in it that could be based on her, she has exactly the same styling but with brunette hair. Stick thin, loads of eye makeup, big jewellery, that sort of thing.

i never realised that, will have to look out for it now!

[Hanne]

Elizabeth Wurtzel's book "Bitch : In Praise of Difficult Women"
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/AS...650842-9040657

would be an interesting read for anybody interested in female characters like Edie Sedqwick, Sylvia Plath, Delilah, Amy Fisher, Princess Di, Yoko Ono, Pam Smart, Marilyn Monroe, Amy Fisher, Hillary Clinton, Margaux Hemingway, Courtney Love and Nicole Brown Simpson..etc etc

[impossibleprincess]

^^^
I've read her other two, considered this. I might read it now!

[luxmode]

I came across this photo today...so cute!



http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Hills/5581/newmelb.htm

[lizzielu]

Hi, my first message on here, i dont know if its just me but i think Samaire Armstrong has a likeness to Edie. Maybe its the short hair or something, see what you think...

[Curious]

^ I see the resemblance. What about Melissa George, though? I think they're nearly dead on!

[lizzielu]

Yeah definatley look very much alike there. Both seem to have a kind of dazed, passive look in their eyes

[EvaLaDiva]

Originally Posted by Curious

^ I see the resemblance. What about Melissa George, though? I think they're nearly dead on!

Yes. Melissa George looks JUST like Edie in that photo...I had to do a double-take!
Does anyone have the book about Edie by Jean Stein? I've got it, and I will scan all of the photos this week. There are several of Edie in high school...she had long brown hair...very pretty. Her entire family was crazy...poor Edie never really stood a chance.
Andy treated her badly and just used her...some people in the book say he wanted to BE her. He did replace her with some fat woman he and other members of the Factory tricked into believing she could be the new Edie. They bleached her hair the same silver-blonde as Edie's, dressed her up like Edie, and put her in a couple of films. I think they gave her the name of Ingrid Superstar or something like that. She ended up disappearing not long after all of this, and was never heard from again, and is rumored dead.
Edie, on the other hand, ended up leaving the Factory, getting a botched breast augmentation (it is in some of the photos in the book I have), going to rehab, and marrying some guy she met in rehab - Michael Post. She didn't look bad at all in some of the photos near the end of her life. Her hair was grown back out to it's natural brown color and looked very pretty. She and Michael were only married three months before she overdosed. Her tombstone even reads "Edith Sedgwick Post."