Edie Sedgwick

[jennifer~]

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Great pics, thanks.

[breathe0xygen]

I love her and the pictures... its such a shame she died so young. Thanks Mercedes and Purple.

[LucyInTheSky]

Kind of blurry, but it's Edie..

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

and I don't believe this is posted...It's by Patti Smith, and she wrote it after Edie died.

EDIE SEDGWICK (1943-1971)

I don't know how she did it. Fire
She was shaking all over. It took
her hours to put her make-up on.
But she did it. Even the false eye-lashes.
She ordered gin with triple
limes. Then a limosine. Everyone
knew she was the real heroine of
Blonde on Blonde.
oh it isn't fair
oh it isn't fair
how her ermine hair
turned men around
she was white on white
so blonde on blonde
and her long long legs
how I used to beg
to dance with her
but I never had
a chance with her
oh it isn't fair
how her ermine hair
used to swing so nice
used to cut the air

how all the men
used to dance with her
I never got a chance with her
though I really asked her
down deep
where you do
really dream
in the mind
reading love
I'd get
inside
her move
and we'd
turn around
and she'd
turn around
and turn the head
of everyone in town
her shaking shaking
glittering bones
second blonde child
after brian jones
oh it isn't fair

how I dreamed of her
and she slept
and she slept
forever
and I'll never dance
with her no never
she broke down
like a baby
like a baby girl
like a lady
with ermine hair
oh it isn't fair
and I'd like to see
her rise again
her white white bones
with baby brian jones
baby brian jones
like blushing
baby dolls

Patti Smith
Seventh Heaven (1972)
Telegraph Books, Boston, MA, USA

[Meg]

Thanks for reviving this thread. Impossible, we need to bring edie to London. I'll wear uber dark eyes with huge false eyelashes and HUGE earrings with black leggings and a mod outfit. You do the same. We will bring it back!!

[Little Tiny]

Please don't.....
do your own thing,cultivate a new look that's all your own.to copy is boring and just a fraud....

[Meg]

well first of all I was only joking. Second of all, I don't think it's fraudulent at all. When it someone who has passed on , and it is someone who is not current and not at all familiar in general pop culture to emulate their style to bring it back is going to an extreme to get it back in the public eye. It's not giving up your whole style to try and literally become this person.

[Little Tiny]

I'm not being mean...
it's just my idea of it.
naturally everyone will do as they please.
I love Edie and I just think she's really unique and that's really just all.
no problems............

[LucyInTheSky]

http://membres.lycos.fr/parj/english/edie.htm

[LucyInTheSky]

Sorry it's so big!

[Meg]

I never said you were being mean I just saying that I disagreed with your point of view and offered my own on the subject.

[LucyInTheSky]

Another big one. I think a small piece of this was posted earlier, but not the whole thing. You can REALLY see her eye makeup here.



Both large pictures found here:
www.plexifilm.com/ media.html

[purplelucrezia]

Wow, those are fabulous, thanks! Snagging the last one, I'll credit its source...

[Estella*]

lucyinthesky, thank you so much for posting the patti smith text!!!

i don't think that any of the aforementioned actresses have the air of edie sedgwick, that fragility in expression etc....but let's see.

sometimes i just wish they would write their own movies instead of interpreting biographies with ill-fitting cast. don't get me wrong, i'm obsessed about people's lives but it hurts to see all your childhood- and teen-icons messed up on screen.

i'll stop complaining now

[impossibleprincess]

Originally Posted by Meg

Thanks for reviving this thread. Impossible, we need to bring edie to London. I'll wear uber dark eyes with huge false eyelashes and HUGE earrings with black leggings and a mod outfit. You do the same. We will bring it back!!

yeeaahhhh! But just us two...the moment it hits Topshop we'll drop it...

[odelay]

Oh my god! I'm in heaven. People on this board love Edie, Nico, Warhol, the Velvets, et al, as much as I do!! Here's some photos from http://www.girlonfire.com/ (AWESOME edie site, check it out) and the edie_sedgwick group on livejournal.

[img]http://www.girlonfire.com/buzzarama/edieswimmingpool.jpg[/img]