Edie Sedgwick #1

[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/warhol/images/sedgwic.JPG

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]

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.

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[edie sedgwick]

needless to say, this is the best thread i've ever seen--look at my user nam!

 

[TokyoVogue]

Gawsh
I love this woman
everything about her...with the exception of the drugs
i cry like a grandma every time i see Ciao! Manhattan.
my favourite picture is the one where she's balancing on the black rhino with her black tights and the drawing of the horse in the background...like patti smith i was in love when i saw that picture.

 

[Venusia]

Rebirth of the Factory girl

[font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]With her 'anthracite-black eyes and legs to swoon over', Edie Sedgwick was the darling not only of Andy Warhol's crowd, but of all 60s New York. Now she is fashion's top muse once more, reports Ellen Brookes Burney[/font]

[font=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif]The Guardian Online, Friday March 18, 2005

[/font][font=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif]Fashion will always need muses. Clothes, you see, aren't enough: in order to get truly excited about fashion, we need a whole character to dress up as. This year's name became clear when John Galliano announced that both his haute couture and ready-to-wear collections for Christian Dior were inspired by Edie Sedgwick, Andy Warhol's 1960s superstar. Combine this with the fact that Sienna Miller, currently a fashion muse in her own right, is to play Sedgwick in an upcoming film - and recently bought $12,000 worth of photographs of Sedgwick at a Manhattan gallery - and you have an instant icon.

Miller's turn as Sedgwick in the forthcoming film Factory Girl is sure to have the celebrity magazines turning out "get the look" pages before the ink is dry on the reviews.

Like everything in fashion, Sedgwick has, of course, been around before. Since her 60s heyday - and her death in 1971 - her ghost has drifted on and off the fashion radar. Think of Kate Moss's blonde pixie cut a few years ago, or of Sofia Coppola dedicating her debut Milk Fed collection to Sedgwick's style. And it's not all underground; model Fanni Bostrom danced barefoot as she played Sedgwick to Will Young's Warhol in his 2002 video single Light My Fire.

Sedgwick's story as a fashion icon began when she fled Harvard for New York draped in her grandmother's antique jewels, and ended up in the Factory, Warhol's infamous slick-silver Manhattan studio. As young American heiresses go, Sedgwick was no different to your modern-day little madam, chartering countless personal limousines for her shopping sprees around New York and charging the bills to daddy's unlimited account. One crucial difference, however, from the Twit girls of today: she had style by the bucketloads.

Sedgwick set trends by not caring what was in fashion. She would turn up to posh society dos barefoot, or for dinner dates in little more than a leotard accessorised with bangles, multi-strand necklaces and dangling chandelier earrings. Sometimes she'd be wearing just a white mink coat and nothing else. But, crucially, she had her style signatures: the fragile, alabaster skin; the sootily rimmed teacup eyes; the Liz Taylor dark eyebrows; the silver spray of gamine-like hair, dyed to match Warhol's; and black opaque tights. As Life magazine put it in 1965, "This cropped-mop girl with the eloquent legs is doing more for black tights than anybody since Hamlet".

Sedgwick's flair caught the eye of the top New York designer Betsey Johnson when she was just starting out. "Edie was my first fitting model ... very boyish, in fact she was the very beginning of the whole unisex trip," Johnson recounts in Jean Stein's 1984 biography, Edie. "I liked leotardic clothes - body-conscious clothes. The jersey-bodied, T-shirty, silver, second skin. That was Edie. Her body was very important to her." Diana Vreeland, then the editor of American Vogue, pronounced Sedgwick a "Youthquaker!", aged 22, describing her as "white-haired with anthracite-black eyes and legs to swoon over". Gloria Schiff, a senior editor who soon shot with Sedgwick regularly, called her "an enchanting, remarkable creature of the moment".

According to friends, Sedgwick's apartment was chaos, piles of clothes on every piece of furniture. There were ostrich-plumed capes (how very now), tailed shirts, and high, high heels. Both Sedgwick and Warhol were fond of the now-iconic Breton stripes and would wear them out together. As the poet and artist René Ricard recalls in Stein's book, "Edie was pasted up to look just like him, but looking so good! The T-shirt. The black stockings. Long earrings. Just the most devastating, ravishing beauty." But who was copying who? Truman Capote guessed that Edie was something Andy would like to have been.

"He was transposing himself into her, à la Pygmalion. Have you ever noticed a certain type of man who always wants to go along with his wife to pick out her clothes? I've always thought that's because he wants to wear them himself. Andy Warhol would like to have been Edie Sedgwick."

He wasn't the only one. Sedgwick was fast becoming fancy dress party fodder, with the likes of artist Roy Lichtenstein's wife Dorothy attending a Halloween party dressed up as her. "Dorothy wore hotpants and very high heels and put on a lot of silver glitter," Lichtenstein (who accompanied her as Warhol) told Stein.

But soon, Warhol grew bored of Sedgwick and found himself another superstar, leaving Sedgwick even more messed up - and a little less dressed up - than before. "The Queen Bee Speedfreaks and Amphetamine Annie had found out where my apartment was," says Sedgwick on the tapes for the Warhol thriller, Ciao! Manhattan. "All my jewellery was stolen and all my expensive clothes. Dior, Balenciaga, just tons of originals. By the way, have you heard anything about my furs? Everybody's wearing them." And 40 years later, we're wearing Sedgwick's wardrobe all over again. [/font]

 

[luxmode]

^ interesting. thanks Venusia.

 

[TokyoVogue]

She's always been way underappreciated.
maybe its selfish but i wouldnt want her any other way. I don't want to share her with the masses.