About Me
"It was 1964, the president's dead, the Beatles are coming, and something was in the air." Danny fields.........................................."That is unusual, to look like you had just walked out of a fairytale. She had nothing human about her, just a mystery." Ivy Nicholson.
New York, 1965: a gamine bottle blonde walks through the crowd of hip young things. With her thick, black kohl eyeliner, bouffant hair and antique chandelier earrings dripping priceless jewels, she emanates style. No-one has ever seen anything quite like this young woman, who wears nothing more than a leotard, opaque tights and a sweater.Men and women stare at her with open admiration - the women making mental notes to try out her look at home. She is the epitome of the swinging '60s scene and one of the architects of the beatnik style. Part muse, part model, sometime actress and wild society girl, she is Edie Sedgwick - and in her short life, she will become a legend ...Sedgwick would go on to inspire the likes of Andy Warhol and Bob Dylan, but in a life that lasted just 28 years, she also suffered from an eating disorder, squandered her inheritance, and battled drug addiction and mental illness. Yet her influence continues today - from the Christian Dior catwalk show dedicated to her look to the film Factory Girl, featuring Sedgwick's latest style apprentice, Sienna Miller, it seems the legacy of one of America's first It girls will live on for years to come.
Edith Minturn "Edie" Sedgwick (April 20, 1943 – November 16, 1971)
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