Edie Sedgwick #1

[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]

Perfect!

^ 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."

 

[nycgirl84]

I'm so excited to see how Sienna Miller does in her role as Edie in "Factory Girl".

 

[impossibleprincess]

yep fashion wise, it should be an inspiring movie.

what I love about Edie is how she takes a simple tee and pairs it with huge chandelier earrings and a simple boheme necklace, then makes up her face to the max and leaves everything else streamlined. very cool.

 

[LucyInTheSky]

I am nearing the end of her bio, EDIE, and it is so hearbreaking to read how she slowly broke down. Still, she was fabulous and I would love to have met her.

 

[Little Tiny]

Edie is my favorite person of all time.....
she beats out Marilyn Monroe and Brigitte Bardot and Kate Moss for me.
I'm absolutely dying to see this new movie-there's always talk of an Edie movie being made.I saw Alfie with Sienna in it and at one point in the film her insane moodiness comes out as the character Nikki and I could totally see her playing Edie,just not as well as I could do it myself.
Someone mentioned Kate Moss somewhere as a good choice and I could also see that but only through a silent film being told through pictures.
Really Sienna Miller to me looks alot like the young hippie Stevie Nicks,not really Edie.
But I can't wait to see her try!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Mr-Dale]

I totally get the Dior shows now that I've seen all these pics...

 

[impossibleprincess]

i just love the way she accesorises. I want to do it like that.

 

[purplelucrezia]

She's my newest craze... her are some screen captures.

From a grand genealogy of women you came
Dressed in smoldering black leggings and an attitude
Your grand look varying, refined and rude by turns
Always averted. Through the refractory of history
You slink inside the Factory, getting tight, then loose.
Thin as a fading whistle, beautiful while you lasted
You had a history of getting around, and it went
Like this:

From walking the streets of the city to driving
A gray Mercedes to getting chauffeured as a lady
To walking the streets again. Darling of the camera lens
Throughout your fifteen minute reign, you claimed
Your fame. In Life you were a mover and a shaker,
In Vogue a youthquaker, in Time a heartbreaker.
You had a history of leading men, and it went
Like this:


From schoolboy effeminate to artist degenerate
To doctor, biker, and intellectual
Who buried you with no great spectacle.
Rest now, Edie, free from strife, be something
You never were in life. Stretch out in place as you
Did on your bed at nineteen, free from a scene
Before your history, before a life that went
Like that.

From http://www.people.virginia.edu/~jmc3qm/ediesedgwick.html

 

[polly]

Those are great pictures, thank you so much Purple!

I love Edie's style so much.

 

[purplelucrezia]

Those are great pictures, thank you so much Purple!

I love Edie's style so much.

My pleasure, I second that! It's only too bad there aren't more out there...

 

[travolta]

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[Mercedes]

Curious, I completely agree with you, Melissa George has a remarkable physical resemblance to Edie

all pictures from http://www.billyname.com

 

[Mercedes]

all pics from http://www.billyname.com

 

[purplelucrezia]

More Edgie Sedgwick, from the above website.

 

[Mercedes]

a lot of those were already posted on the first page of this thread

 

[Mercedes]

a few more from http://www.billyname.com