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She was it. I don’t know what it is, but Andy always wanted to be around people who lived it, were born it, did it all, did anything they wanted to do—and that was Edie. ~Betsey Johnson
Edie Sedgwick, the seventh of eight children, was born into a haunted aristocratic family whose roots went back to the Pilgrims—god-mad zealots who were driven further into dementia by their pointless errand into a trackless, savage-infested wilderness. A gothic family written by Hawthorne or Poe. Vastness, isolation, and sin sent grown men mad in broad daylight and made the women bitter and batty. The Sedgwick’s past is a little capsule of American history. Edie’s great-great-great-grandparents hobnobbed with Martha and George Washington, their daughter Catherine, a novelist and the first bohemian had Hawthorne and Melville to her literary teas, and Edie’s great-uncle Babbo could remember people shouting in the street that Lincoln had been shot. Steeped in tradition, custom, habit, their past so present that the present became to seem unreal.
Edie was riveting to look at, a sprite of the zeitgeist, the living distillation of the over-amped vision of New York in the mid-’60s. As Andy Warhol’s movie muse and favorite “star” she initially bloomed, became the symbol for all that was hip and stylish, and just as quickly began to disintegrate under the weight of her haunted past and prodigious drug taking. Told with unsparing candor and with candid images that capture her at the peak of her radiant Factory stardom, Edie Factory Girl is the vibrant but tragic story of Edie Sedgwick.
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