The Education of a French Model, by Kiki (1955).
The persistence of Edie's iconicity can be credited, paradoxically, to Stein's attempt to make real this woman whose short life was at once a sad waste of time and culturally, ad infinitum the time of seemingly everyone's life. But who was this waspy twig? In Jean Stein's impressive oral history focusing on the Factory years, Edie emerges as a speed freak who wore fur coats over bare skin, arrived late to parties and left early, and tore through a sizable inheritance in a matter of months, and whose only real work involved making over her legs in the summer of '64. Nearly thirty-five years after Edie Sedgwick's death from an overdose, at the age of twenty-eight, her glamorous vapor continues to intoxicate alienated, artsy, wannabe-anorexic teens (who, rightly or wrongly, credit her hipness to her lack of hips) fashion designers (John Galliano's spring 2005 runway show for Christian Dior Haute Couture opened with twenty Edies in black tights and skimpy Gernreich-y sheaths) and film executives (Sienna Miller was set to star in the next attempt at a biopic). Jean Stein’s classic biography of Edie is an American fable on an epic scale - the story of a short, crowded and vivid life which is also the story of a decade like no other.Edie: An American Biography, by Jean Stein, edited by George Plimpton (1982).
She was Warhol's twin soul, his creature, the superstar of his films and, finally, the victim of a life which he created for her. Fleeing to New York, she became an instant celebrity, known to everyone in the literary, artistic and fashionable worlds. Outrageous, vulnerable and strikingly beautiful - in the 1960s Edie Sedgwick became both an emblem of, and a memorial to, the doomed world spawned by Andy Warhol.īorn into a wealthy New England Edie’s childhood was dominated by a brutal but glamourous father. ‘Exceptionally seductive… You can’t put it down’ LA Times A brilliant and unique biography of Andy Warhol's tragic muse, the 60s icon Edie Sedgwick
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