Although Warhol's films were not commercially successful and were rarely shown outside of the Factory, as Sedgwick's popularity grew, serious reputable publications began to print articles about her appearances in Warhol films and about her unusual style, expressed in a combination of black tights, mini-dresses and huge earrings hanging down to the shoulders. In addition, Sedgwick cuts his hair and dyes it (natural chocolate) with a silver spray, achieving a platinum blonde. Warhol dubbed Edie his "Superstar", and photos appear in the press where they are captured together at the outings.
During 1965, Sedgwick and Warhol made several more films together: Outer and Inner, Prison, Lupe, and Chelsea Girls. However, by the end of 1965, their relationship deteriorated, and Sedgwick asked Warhol not to show any of her films again and even to remove footage of her from the film Chelsea Girls. Edie's scenes were replaced with Niko's, with colored lights projected onto her face and The Velvet Underground music playing in the background. The footage from Sedgwick was supposed to be included in the film "Noon".
It is believed that "Lupe" (a painting about tragic fate actress Lupe Velez) is last movie, shot by Warhol with Edie, but Sedgwick later starred in The Andy Warhol Story with Rene Ricard in 1966, that is, the year after the filming of Lupe. The Andy Warhol Story remained an unpublished painting, shown only once at the Factory. The film shows Sedgwick with Rickard trying to parody Warhol. This film has apparently been lost or destroyed.
Bob Dylan and Bob Neuwirth
After leaving Andy Warhol's social circle, Sedgwick settled in the Chelsea Hotel, where she became close to Bob Dylan. She was rumored to be the inspiration behind Dylan's original 1966 album Blonde on Blonde, his song Just Like a Woman, and the hit Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat. It also meant that the phrase "your debutante" from the song "Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again" referred to her. Dylan's friends eventually convinced Sedgwick to sign with his manager, Albert Grossman. Sedgwick's relationship with Dylan ended when she learned that Dylan was secretly engaged to Sara Lowndes. Apparently, Sedgwick learned this from Warhol during an argument at the Gingerman restaurant in February 1966.
According to Paul Morrissey Sedgwick said: "They<(люди Дилана)>they're going to shoot a movie and I'll be playing with Bobby there." All of a sudden she started "Bobby this, Bobby that" and everyone knew that Edie was crazy about him. Andy Warhol, upon hearing in his lawyer's office that Dylan had been secretly married to Sara Lowndes for months, ventured to ask, "Edie, did you know Bob Dylan was married?" She trembled. They realized that she really thought about a serious relationship with Dylan.
A few weeks before the premiere scandalous famous movie"I Seduced Andy Warhol", dubbed "Edie for Dummies" by The Village Voice, on December 29, 2006, The Weinstein Company and the film's producers interviewed Sedgwick's older brother, Jonathan, who claimed that she " had an abortion by (apparently) Bob Dylan."
Jonathan Sedgwick, a retired aircraft designer, flew from Idaho to New York to meet famous actress, Sienna Miller, who plays his deceased sister, and give a detailed eight-hour video interview about the purported connection between Edie and Dylan, which the distributor quickly made public. Jonathan claimed that Edie had an abortion shortly after the horrific incident, when "Edie was badly injured in a motorcycle collision and ended up in the hospital. As a result of an accident, the doctors sent her to mental asylum where she was treated for drug addiction. However, there are no reports from the hospital or family records to support this theory. However, Edie's brother also claimed that "hospital staff discovered that she was pregnant, but, fearing that the child would be born with injuries due to anorexia and drug addiction, forced her to have an abortion."
I love New York. This vibrant city has been the favorite haunt of many great artists. But today I think and write about New York in the 60s. Namely, Andy Warhol, Edie Sedgwick and Bob Dylan. The name of the first is familiar to those who are interested and familiar with pop art, the name of the second is known to fans of rock music. And her name is not familiar to everyone. Who was the muse of the artist Warhol and musician Dylan? What made her a style icon and made others imitate her?
The data about her life in different sources are slightly different (sometimes the years do not match), therefore, arguing logically and comparing the dates, I wrote a detailed story about her life. Who will be interested in the story of the brightest resident of Manhattan in the 60s - let him read on. In the photo - Edie Sejdvik, Andy Warhol and Bob Dylan.
Her talents can be counted on the fingers of one hand, and her achievements, and life in general, if you look at it sensibly, in our purposeful time cause a smile - a couple of shootings in magazines, several underground films that do not require a particularly sophisticated acting skills, a lot of parties and finally death from an overdose at 28 years old. She is a short-haired blonde, it-girl of New York in the roaring sixties.
Her parents.
Edie Sedgwick was born on April 20, 1943. Her father was Francis Mintern Sedgwick (1904-1967), a Santa Barbara rancher who had three nervous breakdowns prior to his marriage in 1929 to mother Edie Alice Delano De Forest. Before the marriage, Ellis's father visited Dr. Francis Sedgwick at the Eston Riggs Center in Massachusetts, where he was recovering from a phase of dementia. V psychiatric clinic Ellis's father was advised that Francis and Ellis should not have children.
But they eventually had eight children: Ellis (Susie) in 1931, Robert Minturn (Bobby) in 1933, Pamela in 1935, Francis Minturn (Minty) in 1938, Jonathan in 1939, Katherine (Kate) in 1941, Edith Minturn (Edie) in 1943, and Suzanne in 1945.
Her ancestors.
The Sedgwick family is often mentioned in Massachusetts history. Edie's seventh great-grandfather, Englishman Robert Sedgwick, was the first major general of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, founded in Charlestown, Massachusetts in 1635. Edie's family moved from Stockbridge, Massachusetts, where her great-grandfather Judge Theodore Sedgwick settled after American Revolution. Theodore married Pamela Dwight, who was the daughter of Abigail (Williams) Dwight. All this means that Ephraim Williams, the founder of Williams College, was her fifth great-grandfather. Theodore Sedgwick was the first person to win a case for granting freedom to a black woman, Elizabeth Freeman, under the Massachusetts Bill of Rights, which declared that all people are equal and have equal rights. Sedgwick's mother was the daughter of Henry Wheeler De Forest (President and Chairman of the Board of the South Pacific railway, and a direct descendant of Jesse De Forest, whose Dutch West India Company helped build New Amsterdam. Jesse De Forest was also Edie's seventh great-grandfather. Her paternal grandfather was the historian and respected author Henry Dwight Sedgwick III; her great-grandmother, Suzanne Shaw, was the sister of Robert Hood Shaw, an American Colonel of the civil war; her great-great-grandfather, Robert Bone Mintern, co-owned the Flying Cloud clipper ship and is credited with creating and promoting New York's Central Park. Edie's great-great-great-grandfather, William Elleray, was one of the signers of the United States Declaration of Independence. She was a cousin of actress Kyra Sedgwick and also of actor Robert Sedgwick - Cyrus, Robert's father and Edie were cousins.
After their marriage, Edie's parents, Francis and Ellis, lived in Cambridge, and Francis took classes at Harvard Business School. Because of his "asthma attacks and other nervous symptoms" his doctors "advised him to develop his artistic side". They moved to Long Island, spending many summers in their home in Santa Barbara, which they bought during their honeymoon. They eventually moved to a 50-acre ranch in Goleta (1943). Edie was born at Hostital Cottage in Santa Barbara on April 20, 1943. During the war they moved to a larger ranch, Coral de Quatti, with money inherited from Edie's maternal grandfather, Henry Wheeler De Forest. Although he lost most of his fortune in the Wall Street crash, half of the remaining money (several million dollars) went to Edie's mother.
Oil was discovered on the ranch in the early fifties, and about seventeen wells were built to take advantage of the oil. With extra money, the family was able to move to a new 6,000-acre ranch about six miles from Coral de Quatty (July 1952). Edie's sister, Suzanne, described the new ranch, Rancho La Laguna de San Francisco, as "splendidly beautiful."
Francis Sedgwick lived in their own world and even built their own school for their children. The children were not allowed to go to public school. Edie and her sister Susanna were taken by a female doctor for daily vitamin B injections.
Edie Brad, Minty (Francis Mintern) has been an alcoholic since the age of fifteen. Later, in the early sixties, he was in the Silver Hill Psychiatric Hospital, attending meetings of anonymous alcoholics there, occasionally escaping. In October 1963, he was found in Central Park standing on a statue reciting a speech to a non-existent audience. Then he was sent to Manhattan State Hospital. He later returned to Silver Hill and was found dead in his room in early 1964. He hanged himself the day before his twenty-sixth birthday. The night before committing suicide, he called Edie and, according to one of her friends, Minty told Edie that "she was the only Sedgwick he could ever hope for."
Her other brother, Bobby, also had psychiatric problems. He had nervous collapse in the early fifties during his sophomore year at Harvard. He was brought from the hostel in a straitjacket. When he returned to Harvard in the fall of 1953, he still continued to see a psychiatrist in Boston. In 1963, he spent several months at Manhattan State Hospital. On New Year's Eve 1964, he was driving his Harvey Davidson, lost control and crashed into an oncoming bus. He passed away on January 12, 1965.
Anorexia.
Edie was hospitalized in the fall of 1962 after suffering from anorexia and, like her brother, visited Silver Hill. She was later transferred to Bloomingdale, a branch of the New York Hospital. Whereas Silver Hill was quite liberal, Bloomingdale was very strict. By the end of her stay there, she became pregnant and had an abortion (nothing is known about the father of the child).
Chuck Wayne.
After her release from the hospital, she began her studies at Cambridge while continuing to see a psychiatrist. There, she met Chuck Wayne, who, according to Edie's friend, Ed Hennessy, "graduated a year or two ago, but he's back to keep messing around."
She left Cambridge after turning twenty-one and moved to New York in 1964. According to Sandy Kirkland, who hung out with Edie in her Manhattan apartment, Chuck Wayne "would be planning the next move of their strategy - who he was going to introduce to Edie, what they could do for her... Chuck had a real patron's vision of her... He knew she was completely disorganized and wouldn't be able to push him away from her, so he accepted her life."
In January 1965, Edie met artist and art house director Andy Warhol at Lester Persky's apartment. Since March, she began to visit his famous "Factory" regularly with Chuck Wayne. During one of these visits, Andy cast her in his film Vinyl, despite the fact that all the roles in the film are male. In the next film, The Horse, Edie appeared at the end. Her roles in both films were small, she made an impression on the audience.
Ronald Tavel (writer of "Vinyl"):
"I don't think Andy was taken in by Chuck for one minute. What he liked was his blond hair and blue eyes."
Andy decides to make a film in which Edie would play the lead role. The first of those films, Poor Rich Girl, was originally conceived as part of a series of Edie films called the Poor Rich Girl Saga. The series included the films Poor Rich, The Restaurant, The Face, and The Day. Filming of Poor Rich began in March 1965 at Sedgwick's apartment. The first part of the film shows Sedgwick waking up, ordering coffee and orange juice and doing her makeup to the music of the Everly Brothers. Due to problems with the camera lens, the picture in the first part was out of focus. In the second part, Sedgwick smokes cigarettes, talks on the phone, tries on clothes and tells how she has spent the last six months.
Andy, Edie, Chuck.
When Andy Warhol went to the opening of his exhibition at the Sonnabend Gallery in Paris on April 30, 1965, he took Edie and Chuck (as well as Gerard Malanga). After returning to New York, Andy told his screenwriter, Ronald Tavel, that he would like to make Edie the queen of "Factory" and asked him to write a script for her: "Something in the kitchen. White and clean plastic. The result was "Kitchen ".
After Kitchen, Chuck Wein filled in for Tavel, becoming writer and assistant director for Beauty #2, in which Edie starred with Gino Pizerchio.
Although Warhol films were not commercially successful and were rarely shown outside of the Factory, as Sedgwick's popularity grew, serious reputable publications began to print about her appearances in Warhol films and about her unusual style, expressed in a combination of black tights, mini dresses and huge earrings, hanging down to the shoulders. In addition, Sedgwick cuts his hair and dyes it (natural chocolate) with silver spray, achieving a platinum blonde. Warhol dubbed Edie his "Superstar", and photos appear in the press where they are captured together at the outings. They are the uncrowned king and queen of Manhattan, with similar names, with the same cut and bleached hair, in the same silver clothes.
Their union has become the quintessence new culture, pop art symbol. Edie began to take drugs, and if now companies are breaking contracts with a model who takes drugs, then Sedgwick's drug addiction added to her image of "bohemianism".
The legendary Diana Vreeland, then editor of the American Harper's Bazzar, carried Edie in her arms and said that "addicts have wonderful skin." Edie became a style icon - short dresses, black tights, long earrings, lined eyes and short white hair were copied by thousands of girls.
She was advised to stop working with Andy and become a proper star. One of the people advising to leave Warhol was Bobby Neuwirth, who has been described as "Bob Dylan's right hand man."
Bob Dylan and Bob Neuwirth.
Bob Dylan and Bob Neuwirth first met Edie in December 1964. They first met Edie in December 1964, about a month before she met Andy Warhol.
Bobby Nwirth:
"Bob Dylan and I sometimes decided to enter the nightlife world. I think someone who knew Edie said 'You have to meet this amazing girl.' an hour or two laughing and giggling it was an amazing time I think we met at a bar on MacDougal Street which was one of the big places in the sixties it was just before Christmas it was snowing Edie was fantastic she always was fantastic."
Neuwirth first met Dylan in early May 1961 at the Indian Folk Festival in Connecticut. In February 1964 Neuwirth joined Dylan and became his "right hand." At the time Neuwirth and Dylan met Edie, Dylan was staying at the Chelsea Hotel (room 211) with his future wife, Sarah Lownds, and her 3-year-old child from a previous marriage. While Sarah stayed at the hotel taking care of her baby, Neuwirth and Dylan enjoyed the New York nightlife. The bar on MacDougal Street was one of their regular haunts. Dylan also had a relationship with Joan Baez which began in May 1963 after both had performed at the Monterey Jazz Festival. The relationship with Baez continued until May 1965 when Baez found Dylan and Lounds in a hotel room during Dylan's UK tour. Previously, Dylan "forgot" to tell Baez about Lounds.
In November 1965, Dylan married Lowndes in a secret ceremony.
Edie was rumored to be the inspiration behind Dylan's original 1966 album Blonde on Blonde, his song "Just Like a Woman", and the hit "Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat". It also meant that the phrase "your debutante" from the song "Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again" referred to her. Eventually, Dylan's friends convinced Sedgwick to sign Dylan's manager, Albert Grossman. Dylan promises to make her a star if she "stops being an appendage of Warhol". But Edie doesn't leave. But Warhol does not take it back. Sedgwick's relationship with Dylan ended when she learned that Dylan was secretly engaged to Sara Lowndes.
Apparently Sedgwick learned this from Warhol during an argument at Gingerman's in February 1966.
Paul Morrissey:
"She, Edie, said, 'They Dylan's people are going to make a movie and I'm supposed to be starring in it with Bobby (Dylan).' had a crush on him.They thought he was cheating on her because it wasn't until that day that Andy Warhol heard in his lawyer's office that Dylan had been secretly married for months - he married Sarah Lowndes in November 1965. Andy couldn't resist asking "Edie, did you know Bob Dylan got married?" She was trembling. They realized what she was really thinking about. serious relationship with Dylan.
Edie went to make a phone call and when she returned she announced that she was leaving the Factory. Gerard Malanga, who was there, thought she was calling Dylan. Malanga recalled that “she left and everyone was kind of quiet. It was a significant event. Edie has disappeared. It was the end. She never returned."
There is no evidence that Edie ever had sexual relations with Bob Dylan. However, she did have them with Bob Nwirth. (According to other sources, Edie and Dylan still had a stormy romance).
Edie Sedgwick ("Chao! Manhattan", taping):
"It was really sad - Bobby Neuwirth and my business. The only true, passionate, and lasting love scene. I really learned love from him, pleasure. It completely blew my mind - made me crazy. I was like this man's sex slave. I I could make love for forty-eight hours, forty-eight hours, forty-eight hours without getting tired. But the minute he left me alone, I felt so empty and lost that I started popping pills in my mouth."
Andy Warhol (at Popism):
"I liked Dylan, liked the way he created a brilliant new style... I even gave him one of my silver Elvis pictures in the days when he was first around. Later though, I got paranoid when I heard the rumors that he used Elvis When I asked "Why did he do that?" I invariably got responses “I hear he (Elvis) feels like you ruined Edie” or “Heard you like Rolling Stone – I think you are a diplomat on a lame horse.” I didn’t know exactly what they meant – I never listened lyrics, but I knew people were saying that Dylan didn't like me and accused me of Edie's drug addiction."
Modeling career.
After parting with The Factory, still in a relationship with Bob Neuwirth, Edie tried to model, appearing with Vogue on March 15, 1966. During her Factory days, she appeared in Vogue in August 1965 as well as in Life magazine in September 1965.
She never became part of the "Vogue family" because, according to senior editor Gloria Schiff, "she was featured in the gossip columns with the drug scene. People were really scared of it, the drugs had done so much damage to young, creative, brilliant people that we only opposed that scene as against politics."
Family Christmas.
Edie was heavily addicted to drugs. The inheritance was practically wasted, and she began to take out antiques from the house. In October 1966, she fell asleep in an apartment with candles lit - she herself ended up in the hospital with burns. She had nowhere to return and she went to the Chelsea Hotel to her lover Bob Neuwirth, on whom she depended like drugs.
In late 1966, Edie, who had been staying at the Chelsea Hotel for several months, arrived home for Christmas. Her brother Jordan remembered her as: "really fantastic when she arrived at the ranch... She was a foreigner. She would understand what you were going to say before you said it. It embarrassed everyone. She wanted to sing, and sang. But it was a burden, because everything was not true. She was like a painted doll, wobbly, languishing in chairs, trying to be like a vamp."
According to the tapes she later made for Chao! Manhattan," she tried to get her mother's doctor to give her the prescription again. Mother found out about it. Later that night, her parents gave her sleeping pills so she could sleep. But at night they woke her up and said that she had heat And she needs to be taken to the hospital. Although she thought she was going to a normal hospital, she was actually being taken in a patrol car to the County Hospital to have her mentally examined.
When Edie left the hospital, she returned to Manhattan to the Chelsea Hotel (room 105) and continued to take drugs. In early 1967, Neuwirth, unable to cope with the drug-abusing Sedgwick and her erratic behavior, ended their relationship. When he left her, Edie slept with anyone for drugs, came to the "Factory" to ask Warhol for money, ended up in hospitals.
"Chao! Manhattan".
Filming for Edie's final film, Chao! Manhattan, began on the first day of Easter, in 1967. This is the story of Edie, told by herself. Reflections on the life lived, previous years, family, friends, acquaintances.
On October 24, 1967, Eddie's father died. Towards the end of his life, one of her brothers heard him say: "You know, my children believe that their difficulties come from me. And I agree."
Edie was in Grace Square Hospital at the time of her father's death.
Her brother, Jordan, describes her condition when Edie's mother finally brought her from the hospital back to the ranch in Santa Barbara: "She couldn't walk. She almost fell. She had no control over her body. The doctor did several types of contrast tests. "And he showed that the blood wasn't reaching certain parts of the brain. She couldn't speak. I said, 'Edie, damn it, this is destroying your head.' She said, "I... I... I... I know... It's... It's... S..S..Strong."
Eventually she was well enough to live in the city and got an apartment in Isla Vista near Santa Barbara. She was admitted again in August 1969 to Cottage Hospital Mental Asylum after police found drugs on her. While in the hospital, she met another patient, Michael Post, whom she would later marry.
Edie went back to the hospital in the summer of 1970, but was released under the supervision of two nurses to finish Chao! Manhattan".
An actual clinic was used for the shock therapy shots in the film. The footage in her "apartment" was actually filmed at the base of an empty swimming pool in Los Angeles.
Soon afterwards Edie ended up in the same clinic where the shock therapy shots in Chao! Manhattan, where she had real shock therapy.
Michael Post:
"She was in the clinic from January 17 to June 4... She had shock therapy - I don't know how many - maybe twenty or more times. Dr. Mercer told me that she had some shock therapy sessions in the East. He allowed more sessions because he thought Edie might be close to suicide."
According to Warhol's biographer, David Bordon: "Between January and June 1971, she received twenty or more sessions of shock therapy."
July 24, 1971 Edie marries Michael Post. She stopped drinking and taking pills until October, when pain medication was given to her to treat physical illness. She remained in the care of Dr. Mercer, who prescribed her barbiturates, but she would often demand more pills or say she had lost them in order to get more, often combining them with alcohol.
On the night of November 15, 1971, Edie went to a fashion show at the Santa Barbara Museum. After the screening, Edie was attacked by one of the guests, who called her a drug addict. The guest was so loud that she was asked to leave.
At home, she took sleeping pills prescribed for her from her husband's hands and fell asleep. When Michael woke up the next morning at 7:30, Edie was dead. The coroner registered her death as an accident/suicide due to a barbiturate overdose. She was 28 years old.
Edie was buried in the small Oak Hill Cemetery in Ballard, California in a simple grave. Her headstone reads "Edith Sedgwick Post - Wife of Michael Brett Post, 1943-1971".
Despite the fact that her fate cannot be called happy, Edie Sedgwick is still a heroine and an object to follow, because thousands of girls love fun, drugs and people of art, but few manage to influence the world with their love, as Edie Sedgwick did, the girl from the factory.
About Edie Sedgwick, Warhol and Dylan, an excellent film was made "Factory Girl" ("I Seduced Andy Warhol" (2006). Sienna Miler did an excellent job with the role of Edie. She has an unusual resemblance to Sedgwick. Guy Pearce played the role of Andy Warhol and again still unusually similar to the original - appearance, manner. Hayden Christensen played Bob Dylan (however, the name is never mentioned in the film - it's not difficult to guess who exactly this "Musician" is). I advise you to watch and plunge into this crazy atmosphere.
P.S. Andy Warhol has often been accused of taking Edie Sedgwick drugs and the consequences of this mental illness. But this is an erroneous opinion. Before meeting Warhol, Edie had been in psychiatric hospitals twice and came from a family with a history of mental illness. She was close to Warhol for a year, from approximately March 1965 to February 1966.
Another mistake was that they thought it was Warhol who killed Edie after he stopped working with her, when the truth was that it was Edie's decision to leave the Factory, lured by promises of fame by Bob Dylan and his manager, and leave Andy feeling yourself a little betrayed.
Style icon: Edie Sedgwick
Text: Tatyana Yakimova
Edie Sedgwick had everything the 1960s are famous for. Rethinking fashion, beauty, luxury and dress code. Crazy energy, challenge, naivete, romanticization of drugs. Pop art, thrash and rock and roll. Among the many stylish heroes of that time, she shone brighter than anyone - it's a pity that not for long. The IMDB website in the description called her a “bright secular butterfly” - this is negligible for a style icon of several generations and America's first official it girl, but this is true, because butterflies do not live long. Eddie's 75th birthday is today.
Noble beauty large family, where every ancestor is famous for something in the history of the United States, Edith Mintern Sedgwick inherited only mental problems from her father. But from my grandmother - a huge apartment in New York, where she moved the entire wardrobe, which consisted mainly of couture dresses and ballet leggings. Edie loved clothes. At a party in Cambridge (where she studied to be a sculptor) in honor of her coming of age, she changed three different dresses in a few hours, one was from Dior. Before New York, she looked like just a nice girl with huge eyes, dark long hair and baby cheeks. She was full of complexes and at the same time longed for fun, parties and popularity. To a friend who helped Edie move out of the family estate, she told her that she wanted to be a model and that "only in New York is real nightlife." She spent the whole summer in the salon, where her legs were put in order. When the course ended, she got famous Beautiful legs: smooth and well-groomed, flexible and long, despite short stature Edie herself. The legs that every girl dreams of had to be walked tirelessly, which she did.
On March 26, 1965, at Tennessee Williams' birthday party, Edie Sedgwick attracted everyone's attention with her dancing style, making strange movements with her head and neck, moving "somehow in Egyptian." For the future rock goddess Patti Smith, the sight of Edie dancing was one of the most powerful impressions in her life.
For the king of pop art Andy Warhol, apparently, too. Then he comes up with the idea of calling these dances “Sedgwicks”: “Only she knew how, although many tried to try.” For the first time he looked at Edie and said: She is soooo Bee-you-ti-full!!! And he invited her to the most popular place in New York - the legendary "Factory", where beautiful and talented people, as well as those who consider themselves as such, expressed themselves as they wanted under Andy's supervision. The result of the meeting between Sedgwick and Warhol was 17 joint films and the most amazing, most unique, most platonic and - alas - the most short-lived of all the famous novels of the 20th century.
A month after the meeting, Warhol and Edie - with a new short haircut and brightly made up eyes - flew to Paris for the opening of his Flowers exhibition. On the road, she took two grandmother's coats: one on herself, the second in a travel bag. In the restaurant she refused to put her fur coat in the wardrobe - she could not stay in her underwear. To get even closer to Warhol, Edie not only cut off her wonderful hair, but also dyed it with a silver spray, the very same with which her "twin" made himself an artificial gray hair and painted the walls in the "Factory".
In the first "factory" film with her participation ("Vinyl"), she appeared for three minutes, and everyone immediately began to ask: "Who is this blonde?" At the same time, Warhol called her a superstar and invited her to the main role in the TV series Poor Little Rich Girl. He called his muse "a true innovator in fashion - both out of necessity and for fun." But there was more fun. Out of necessity, Eddie wasn't very good at it. She was amused and desperately happy about everything: outfits and parties, filming and presentations. And she charged those around her with this joy. She had such a feature: next to her, everyone felt more significant.
Edie Sedgwick dances with Chuck Wayne and Larry Latreille in the back of The Factory while Gerard Malanga and Andy Warhol work on Flowers, 1965
The secret of Sedgwick's unique style was that she handled clothes in her own way, as it came into her head. She wore ballet leggings like jeans. “Leggings and a shirt. That's all a girl needs. Edie turned this outfit and long huge earrings into an underground version of a little black dress with pearls." A fur coat - not only on linen, but simply on a naked body, like a dressing gown. Leopard coat - with a taxi driver's cap. I bought evening velvet dress to the floor, made a mini out of it and wore it with the same tights and a black straw hat. I bought T-shirts in the boys section and miniskirts in the girls section. According to her mood, she wore empire-style dresses, short tops that exposed her belly, lace and tweed, trouser suits with floral print and sundresses in hippie style. And earrings! Long, shoulder-length huge earrings with precious stones and without, sometimes made of silk, but always luxurious, like those of oriental beauties. Warhol believed that no jewelry makes a person more beautiful, "however, it makes him feel more beautiful." But for Eddie it was different, deeper. Once she admitted that by the earrings a person can analyze her and guess what condition she is in.
Forty years later, Edie's best style expert was John Dunn, costume designer for the film Factory Girl ("I Seduced Andy Warhol"), where Sienna Miller played the main role well. Scrupulously studying the archives, Dunn was struck by the fantasy of the heroine of the film: “She did not have a favorite designer, guru or stylist, like all current style icons, she invented everything herself. And how she knew how to mix: cheap with expensive, simple with artsy, old with new! She was the first young girl to wear her grandmother's mink coat with and without anything. Following her example, fashionistas of that time learned to give new life old things, to combine vintage and futuristic things of newfangled designers.
"I Seduced Andy Warhol", 2006
Among the newfangled designers of the 1960s, Edie adored Rudy Gernreich and Betsey Johnson. In October 1965, at the Warhol exhibition in Philadelphia, the guests were struck first of all by the outfit of his muse: a toe-length pink elastic T-shirt with long sleeves that were supposed to be rolled up - but Edie did not like the word "supposed". Edie wore this dress and Kenneth Jay Lane chandelier earrings for Life. The author of the outfit was Rudi Gernreich: a designer who at the age of 30 drew sketches of dresses for the legendary costume designer Edith Head, by that time he had been basking in the rays of glory for a year, releasing monokini swimsuits (those with open breasts) and constantly experimenting with artificial fabrics . By the way, in the book Fifty Fashion Looks, that Changed the 1960s, they are next to each other: Gernreich and Edie's monokini, posing on a stepladder in wide cropped trousers.
Designer Betsey Johnson, former editor of the New York magazine Mademoiselle, also used vinyl, lurex and mesh to create clothes, introduced into fashion Street style and even founded the avant-garde boutique Paraphernalia with friends. Cheerful, reckless Betsy found in Edie perfect face and a body for the Paraphernalia brand. “She was it. One in a trillion. And sweet and simple. I didn't know another Edie Sedgwick. Only a sweet girl with wide eyes, full of enthusiasm and light. Ah, those eyes! Edie blackened them so that Twiggy looked bare in comparison. She had 50 pairs of false eyelashes in her collection. different sizes: the largest resembled wings bat. Many tubes of mascara, which she applied in ten layers, and shadows of all shades that Revlon produced, and twenty boxes of Max Factor blush. In stores, salespeople immediately began to fawn over her: “Ah, Miss Sedgwick, we just got new items from Helena Rubinstein, choose something for yourself!” Usually Edie answered: "I take everything." Subsequently, she admitted that she put a mask on her face because she did not understand how beautiful she was. At the same time, she had pure alabaster skin, radiating brilliance and light. (As Diana Vreeland said about her: “I love drug addicts, they always have such fair skin!”). But Edie's face shone from birth, and sometimes it looked like a real aura that drugs could only destroy.
By the summer of 1965, Edie's every move was attracting the attention of the press. So, the New York Times on July 26 published her photo with the caption: “Edie Sedgwick, the new superstar of underground films, came to the picnic in her famous uniform: black tights, a striped T-shirt and a gold panama with red lining.” In August, Vogue wrote about her in the youthquacker section about young style queens, which - allegedly - Diana Vreeland came up with when she met Edie. The famous shot of the first it girl standing on the bed with her leg held high like a ballerina was subsequently hung on the wall of many future celebrities, including Patti Smith. By the way, Edie painted the horse on her wall herself. “She could not live an ordinary life. She needed glamour, all that brilliance... If she came somewhere and not everyone turned around in her direction, then after twenty seconds she came up with a trick to attract everyone's attention.
After meeting Bob Dylan, who hated Warhol, Edie longed for real, "serious" fame. The party in which she shone did not suit her anymore. "He promised me a real movie, I will act in a real movie." Alas, Bob Dylan deceived her, or simply decided not to get involved, although he dedicated three songs to Edie. A break with Warhol because of Dylan, a break with Dylan, an affair with his friend, tantrums, drugs, a fire in her own apartment, where almost her entire wardrobe burned down - and now the main decoration of the New York world and the pop art star needed. Her future life became a succession tragic events. She honestly went through a long course from alcohol and drug addiction, and then she married a former drug addict like her. And even participated in a fashion show, unleashing fragments of her famous radiance on others. And even finished filming the movie Ciao Manhattan. Some even started talking about the return of the icon. But something broke in her. Poor rich girl lived so long short life. On November 16, 1971, she died in her sleep, poisoned by a mixture of alcohol and barbiturates, either by accident or on purpose.
In one of his autobiographies, Andy Warhol's Philosophy: From A to B and Vice Versa, published shortly before the author's death, Warhol referred to the former muse with admiration, calling her "Taxi from Charleston." “She invented the miniskirt. Taxi tried to prove to her family that she could live without money, so she went to the Lower East Side and bought the cheapest things, which turned out to be children's skirts. Her waist was so thin that they fit her. 50 cents for a skirt. Yes, she was an innovator… Thick fashion magazines immediately picked up her image. She was incredible! So extraordinary that designers and creative people are still inspired by her image and style.
Her image is the main inspiration of the season. Sienna Miller plays her in Factory Girl, and 60s muse Edie Sedgwick has regained her number one it-girl status.
Her talents can be listed on the fingers of one hand, and her achievements, and life in general, if you look at it sensibly, in our purposeful time cause a smile - a couple of shoots for magazines, several underground films that do not require particularly sophisticated acting skills, many parties and eventually death at the age of 28 from an overdose. She is this short-haired blonde, it-girl of New York of the roaring sixties, embodying the image of the revolutionary time, and the girl who was most often remembered by designers in the fall-winter 2006/2007 collections.
The future muse of Andy Warhol and Bob Dylan, Edie Sedgwick was born in April 1943 in Santa Barbara, California. Shortly before Edie's birth, oil was found at the Sedgwick ranch, and her already aristocratic family became even richer by American standards. Edie's father, Francis, was a manic depressive before he married Alice Delano De Forest, and his psychiatrist strongly advised the couple not to have children.
Francis and Alice managed to give birth to eight people. Edie was the penultimate girl. By 1962, Edie, suffering from anorexia, was first admitted to a psychiatric hospital, by the end of her stay there she became pregnant and had an abortion (nothing is reported about the father of the child). At the age of 21, she entered into the inheritance rights of everything that her beloved grandmother left her. She moved to New York, to her grandmother's 14-room apartment on Park Avenue, drove around the city in a gray Mercedes, throwing acid; breaking it, she began to move exclusively in limousines.
In January 1965, Edie's friend brought her to Andy Warhol's Factory. They were fascinated by each other at first sight. Edie began to spend almost all her time at the Factory. Warhol said that he would open a “poor rich girl” in Sedgwick and make her the queen of the “Factory” Andy filmed Edie in his endless films (“Vinyl”, “Kitchen”, “Chelsea Girls” and others), they shone together in society; during this period, Edie often referred to herself as "Mrs. Warhol". They were together a little more than a year; the uncrowned king and queen of Manhattan, with similar names, similarly cut bleached hair, in identical silver clothes.
The union of a pro-chemical rich blonde and a phenomenal Czech intellectual became the quintessence of a new culture, a symbol of pop art. If now companies are tearing up contracts with a model when she is caught with white powder and a bill rolled up into a tube, then drug addiction Sedgwick rather added to her image of fashionable "bohemian".
The legendary Diana Vreeland, then editor of the American Harper's Bazaar, wore Edie in her arms; she said that "drug addicts have wonderful skin." Edie became a style icon - short dresses, black tights, long earrings, lined eyes and short white hair were copied by thousands girls who wanted to get closer to art.
Just at that time, The Velvet Underground appeared in the life of the Factory, and Lou Reed, at the request of Warhol, wrote a song about Edie - Femme Fatale; it is sung by Nico. But Edie is interested in a slightly different music: in early 1966, she met Bob Dylan - and fell in love with him. By general opinion, the songs Just Like A Woman and Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat were written for her. Dylan promises to make her a great singer and actress if she stops being Warhol's "appendage". Edie announced to Warhol that she was leaving the Factory; this event was celebrated with a loud public quarrel in a restaurant. By the way, eyewitnesses suggested that Warhol and his "Factory" largely existed on the money of the glorious Sedgwick family. One way or another, but in 1966 Edie Sedgwick left Andy Warhol - and this was not the end of the "Factory", but the beginning of the end of Edie herself.
By the end of that year, she was heavily addicted to cocaine and heroin. The inheritance was practically squandered, and she began to carry from home and sell family antiques.
In October 1966, Edie fell asleep in an apartment with lit candles - the apartment burned down, she herself ended up in the hospital with burns to her back, arms and legs. She had nowhere to return, and from the hospital she went to the Chelsea Hotel to Dylan's friend and her lover Bob Newwirth, on whom she depended like drugs. When Newwirth left her, Edie slept with anyone for heroin, came to the "Factory" to Warhol to ask for money, went to prison, spent more and more time in hospitals.
By 1968, she could hardly speak; when she saw her brother, she mistook him for her lover. In July 1971, Edie married a friend in a rehabilitation clinic, Michael Post; a couple of months later she appeared at a fashion show in all her splendor, twirled in front of the cameras; having come home, she took the prescribed portion of sleeping pills from the hands of her husband and went to bed. In the morning, the coroner recorded death from an overdose.
Now, stroking the photo of this very thin, dressed in all black girls(Edie suffered from anorexia all her life), it is already hard to believe that she was the "party goddess", the main muse of the swinging sixties. After all, Edie's main talent turned out to be ephemeral: "she was a light, she breathed life into the people around her," as one of her "factory" friends said. George Hickenlooper, director of Factory Girl, with Edie played by Sienna Miller, says that for him Eddie's story is a typical "American tragedy": "Americans have grown such a cult of celebrities because they don't find enough love at home and looking for her in the outside world.
And despite the fact that her fate cannot be called happy, Edie Sedgwick is still a heroine and an object to follow, because thousands of people love fun, drugs and people of art, but few manage to influence the world with their love, as Edie Sedgwick did, Factory girl.
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For the first time Edie Sedgwick came to the "Factory" in March 1965. It was a cross between a club on the fifth floor of a house on 47th Street in Manhattan and a New York bohemian art studio. Here she was invited by the ideologue of pop art Andy Warhole. Here he put art on stream - each visitor participated in the filming of films, painted pictures, or simply inspired others. own ideas. Here she could meet Salvador Dali and Truman Capote. Sedgwick "Factory" immediately liked it, the impressions were new and sharply different from the usual way of life of a 22-year-old girl.
Edie in Wonderland
Great-great-grandfather Edie Sedgwick William Elleray participated in the signing of the United States Declaration of Independence. One of her great-grandfathers was the founder of London's Williams College, and the second was involved in the creation of Central Park in New York. The Sedgwick family even had their own coat of arms.
Edie was born in Santa Barbara, and although by the time she was born family wealth largely wasted, oil was soon discovered on the family's farm, and the Sedgwicks' income skyrocketed again. Edie, like her seven brothers and sisters, was sent to study at the family school, and with outside world She managed to meet much later - in Cambridge.
The objects themselves did not attract her, but unfamiliar sensations awakened a thirst for life, which she had not seen before. At Cambridge she met Chuck Wayne, and when he graduated, the couple broke into New York, the city of adventure and parties. As soon as she moved, her older brother committed suicide. The day before, he had talked to Edie, because he considered her the only one of the Sedgwicks with whom he could have a heart-to-heart talk.
She decided to start a new life in New York, she made friends. At one of the parties, Sedgwick met Andy Warhol, and he invited her to the Factory. She was immediately struck by the brilliant silver world of this place. Warhol's buddy Billy Name furnished all the walls with silver, leaving irregularities and careless play of light. At the request of Andy Warhol, the premises could be a club, a studio, a lounge, or all at the same time.
The "factory" was constantly packed, and at every step Sedgwick met interesting people - among the failed writers, directors and idlers there came across Bob Dylan and Lou Reed, Truman Capote and Mick Jagger. Sedgwick was literally the black sheep among them - sincere, curious, open and in love with life. Edie infected everyone with her energy and quickly became one of the main stars of the Factory. Soon she began a relationship with Andy Warhol, the ideologue of this place.Edie and Andy
From the outside it seemed that Andy Warhol was on the rise. A star artist who regularly appears on television, fans consider him almost a prophet of a new direction in painting and lifestyle. Leaving art, Warhol decides to switch to film. Warhol's new project was a short film adaptation of A Clockwork Orange, Vinyl. It was a pseudo-documentary tape without cuts, in the frame, as if on stage, several people were acting out scenes, Edie was among them.
Coming up with new conceptual ideas, Warhol tried to realize himself in a new niche, but his homemade crafts were applauded only by the regulars of his "Factory" - the rest did not know about them. He was offended, the shameful stain of unsuccessful directing did not in the best way looked in the resume of the most successful artist of his time.
Edie became popular character gossip columns, and films with her participation attracted the attention of the press. For Warhol, this was a breakthrough. "Kitchen" and "Beauty No. 2" became popular among fans and sympathizers of auteur cinema, but Warhol wanted more. He dreamed of a big project, where in leading role there will be Sedgwick, who will become a success, make a name for him in the cinema and lead him to Hollywood.
Edie Sedgwick. / A frame from the film “Chao! Manhattan, 1972
Sedgwick was in favor. She relied on Andy's instincts and tried to have a good time. She was better at having fun than the others. But when the party ended, the girl from the family ranch of the strictest orders, whose entire childhood had passed under the sensitive gaze of ultra-conservative parents, was left alone. “I don’t know a single person who would have as many problems as Edie,” Warhol said about her.
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In the winter of 1965, Eddie's second brother - Bobby- crashed to death, crashing a Harley into a bus. Bobby was a student at Harvard but dropped out due to a mental breakdown. Sedgwick's loneliness only intensified - as much as addiction to alcohol and drugs. Edie's friends say that during that period she wanted to be closer to Warhol.
But he was busy. Warhol became the manager of Lou Reed's The Velvet Underground, where he added his new protege, a 27-year-old German woman, as a vocalist. Christa Paffgen known as Niko. The relationship between Warhol and Sedgwick began to openly deteriorate. For some time they were still making films, but soon Andy began to publicly accuse Edie of excessive partying, she in turn demanded to stop showing films with her participation and cut scenes with her from Chelsea Girls.
After leaving the Factory, Sedgwick settled in the Chelsea Hotel. Stayed here before Mark Twain and Frida Kahlo, Jack Kerouac wrote here "On the road", here in 14 years they will hold their last days together Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen. At the Chelsea Hotel, Sedgwick began a relationship with Bob Dylan.Dylan was inspired by Sedgwick for the album "Blonde on Blonde", he openly dedicated her song "Just Like a Woman". True, he was married at that moment, and Edie found out about this only a few months later - from Andy Warhol, when they met in a cafe. According to some rumors, Sedgwick was pregnant by Dylan and had an abortion.
Edie Sedgwick began to drink and go out even more. She squandered the family fortune, the Manhattan apartment burned down. Increasingly, stories about her antics in clubs and social events appeared in the press, and as a result of these scandals, Edie lost contracts with fashion magazines. In October 1967, Edie's father died of cancer, and the newspapers vied with each other to gossip about the deteriorated moral character of the actress. One evening, Sedgwick had a motorcycle accident. After receiving blood tests, the doctors recommended that Eddie be transferred to a psychiatric hospital. By this time, I had been separated from her for several months. Bob Neuwirth, best friend Bob Dylan.
After leaving the hospital, Sedgwick tried to return to the cinema, but most of the tests were unsuccessful. After casting for the role in the play "Deer Reserve", the author said that she was not good enough: "Too much is invested in the role, it does not look natural."
Edie Sedgwick. / Frame from the film Screen Test No. 1, 1965
Meanwhile, Edie's health continued to deteriorate. She returned home to California. Married to Michael Brett Post, whom she met in the hospital, and decided to give up alcohol and drugs. She was indeed sober for several months, but later doctors put her on painkillers and the old sensations returned, along with the addiction.
In mid-November 1971, Sedgwick returned from a party after a fashion show at the Santa Barbara Museum, went to bed and did not wake up. The cause of death was described as "unspecified/accident or suicide". “She went to bed, fell asleep, but her breathing was bad,” said her husband, who was sleeping next to her, later.
Three and a half years earlier, when Sedgwick was already undergoing treatment, an attempt was made on Andy Warhol. His new girlfriend is a radical feminist. Valerie Solanas shot the artist three times in the stomach. After surgery, he quickly recovered and returned to creative activity. Warhol died 19 years after the event from cardiac arrest during surgery at Cornwall Medical Center at the age of 58.
Bob Dylan is now 72 years old, has nine Grammys, and the album "Blonde on Blonde" is inducted into the awards hall of fame. The musician was also awarded an Oscar and a Golden Globe for the music for the film Geeks.
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