@Tigerlily21 a whole damn lot of people did drugs and were rich back in 60s but do you realise they weren't all legends? moreover, "more intelligent and stylish" is a great difference right here, edie was special, even comparisons to her contemporaries are irrelevant, not to mention modern "celebrities".
Even if Edie didn't have any "talent" there was something undeniably charming about her, I mean this is a girl who could keep people captivated simply by being present.
Edie Sedgwick is represents her era. She is Warhols queen, who was trapped in his factory of lies, where everybody dreamt of fame and almost none achieved it. That's why she is so famous, because she was part of the 60s. Both a product and a victim of those tumultuous years.
i don't see what's so wonderful about edie sedgwick other than the fact that she is from an era we were not really a part of and she was beautiful, so its kind of retro and cool to be "into" her. 40 yrs from now, people will say the same thing about paris hilton, assuming she dies young.
whoa whoa whoaa....people...edie may be a legend and i love her but don't be comparing Chloe sevigny with lohan and paris....Chloe does have much talent and she's one of the closest nowadays to becoming a true legend as well much like edie. people REALLY need to think before they talk. I love edie and i love chloe but don't group the talentless (paris and lindsay) with the talented (chloe) Edie and chloe will be the one's with talent. don't confuse them.
question: if not the beauty then what do we glorify? I think maybe we should stop putting things on a pedestal as an act in general. BUt then, it is in human nature to idolize and to worship, as we have done through our existence in some form or another. Perhaps to discover the root is to unearth the need and end the trifle once and for all. I ask u, really, what does it all mean?
@rubberrand142 You know, I really do idolize people for their beauty sometimes, its wrong. Beautiful people take the beauty out of myself because I get too consumed with them, I don't know. I think its hard not to love beautiful people.
I think her family was the start of her downfall if it's true about sexual abuse starting at age nine and her mother knowing and doing nothing about it. people should't be so hard on her for the drug use. She seemed like such a sweet, damaged person who made some terrible choices.
@megacapitalistpig: frankly the effects of heroin, etc were known by the time Edie was using. Uppers, downers, speedballs... Edie did a lot of "self-medicating" when she wasn't being treated for depression (the truly misunderstood and maltreated condition of the day). Marijuana was considered a gateway drug for many years.
Can you imagine the time she existed in? Dylan, Stones, Beetles, Factory? Can you imagine yourself in those days? It's not uncommon to be fucked over today. So sad that she couldn't get it together.
She was a drug addict with lots of psychologic problems due to abuse and family issues, yes she was beautiful, honest, and had lots of style but to call her a legend and a whole model is sick. Addiction and self destructive behavior is very painfull and is only adressed whith glory by addicts themselves. Ive seen this kind of lifestyle myself and I gotta tell you there's nothing glorious about it, people are fake, cruel, and you can only take yourself, your soul, your body to a limit
Edie hung out with Warhol, Ginsberg, Lou Reed, Dylan - she was part of a revolutionary creative circle that changed America - we are all (women and men) wearing fashions today that she helped to create - our music today is directly rooted in the music that she and her friends made and made cool - no one will remember the cuties of today who are famous for shopping, drugs and going panty-less. Edie was a sad junkie who wrecked her life in the end but for a time she was part of something huge.
@CandOnyc Oh, absolutely, that so true! And not only the US. You see traces of Edie everywhere. In essence, I think the 1960s was the first truly modern decade. She wasted her life away, but she was one of the people who changed the world.
@vipmousasi She wasnt superficial. she was someone who wanted to do good things. she just went about in a way that really wasnt to her best interest. Just b/c you dont like someone,doesnt give you the right to be abousive. that's disgusting.
People are only glorifying her because she's beautiful and died young. I mean the comments on this page are evidence of that. If Lindsay Lohan died in the near future, all the people who dissed her would be raving about her. Let's face it, Sedgwick was basically the Paris Hilton of the 60s only more intelligent and stylish. Chloe Sevigny was right when she said she was just a rich socialite who did a lot of drugs and didn't really accomplish anything.
@desertshore I agree there must be some difference, but how will we know? I hope they die old and in homes. Edie died because she fell asleep face down on a pillow. She was part of a society which has all but disinigrated, and left it for one which has become mainstream. Youtube is what Warhol's underground shit has transformed into. It is everything he ever wanted and everything he ever imagined- looking at people and taking pictures of them while never actually interacting. Peace.
@desertshore That's only because of people's priorities on what is a celebrity (a person worthy of celebration). Our priorities are evidently wrong. We create lots of "legends" out of figures unworthy of consideration, let alone admiration, such as gangsters. Chloe Sevigny's an accomplished and talented actress who's created Art, however big or small her contribution is. Edie Sedgwick we can only admire the same way we admire a beautiful bird getting beautifully devoured by a predator.
As much as I adore this Factory footage and admire the time, I concur
with your thoughts.
Too much worship in this world for all the wrong reasons, admiration, fascination sure, I am there too, but the LEGENDARY bullshit gets to be a bit much to bare.
Love her though and sad she didn't get the chance to flourish.
@desertshore I think you've COMPLETELY missed the point of the original post. The point is: she's only a legend because she was beautiful and died young! She didn't do anything, she was talentless. Period.
@Tigerlily21 I'd have to disagree with you. Yes she may have been a socialite drug addict, but she was a muse for Andy Warhol and not only that she was technically the first "IT" girl. She just wanted to be loved and the tradgedy of her life consumed her. I would never compare her to Paris Hilton or Lindsay Lohan.
@Brendansanatomy I think you pretty much nailed it. The difference between Edie and many others is that Edie will be remembered for a long time. The others will fade away.
@Tigerlily21 who are you to say she didnt accomplish anything? sure she didnt live until she was 80, have kids and get a respectable job, her life was just.. different.
@Tigerlily21 Chloe Sevigny? that girl needs a personality and a Berlitz to teach her what a f**king umlaut really is. what idiot would bring up some nobody like her?!
@Tigerlily21 I partly agree. You should however acknowledge her tragic past giving her a special madness, that's sorta what romanticizes and differentiates her from a paris hilton or a lindsey lohan... It might not be righteously seen, but it is true.
@Tigerlily21 Not true. While I agree, people are absolutely over-romanticized when their dead, Edie was something else. There is no comparison to Paris. She was a style icon, literally turning the fashion world upside down - she was an embodiment of sixties culture in it's excesses, presenting a tragic and sobering view of the era - and she intelligent and raw in a time where women were not supposed to be that, when wasn't widely accepted. Warhols films are also historically relevant to cinema.
@LiveVinyl By that logic, she's also relevant, being a Warhol superstar. Also, Edies drugs problems can at least be attributed to the cultural experimentation of 1960's youth, what's Lindsay Lohans excuse? You can pinpoint her as a druggie and all that, but it was kind of part of the lifestyle of most kids back then, to get hooked on something, to mess around with that bullshit. It was a form of rebellion and what they believed to be a 'spiritual and mental liberation'.
@LiveVinyl There is no such thing as a valid "excuse" for hard drug abuse. There were plenty of people who abstained from hard drugs in Edie's time, just as there are plenty of drug addicts today. Drug experimentation is still part of the youth lifestyle for many Americans today, even if it is less significant than in Edie's time. Lindsay Lohan isn't any less deserving of sympathy than Edie was over her own drug-induced decline; people abuse drugs out of weakness and weakness only.
Its not that its a valid 'excuse', Just that it was what it was. Of course youth will always be surrounded by drug experimentation. It's not *right* but it was INGRAINED in the culture of the time period. It wasn't viewed as a morally reprehensible thing in much of the culture to smoke pot. The life-changing effects of heroin and harder drugs were not known the way they are now. It was a way to open your mind to new things and try and reach new planes of thought and existence.
@MegaCapitalistPig LiveVinyl said "What was Lindsay Lohan's excuse?" which clearly implied that Edie's drug addiction was somehow excused. Moral reprehensibility isn't the primary concern with drug abuse; damage to health and wellbeing is, and Edie knew that drugs were killing her regardless of how common it was in her social circle. I wasn't judging Edie morally for using drugs in any way, merely pointing out the hypocrisy in criticising a modern celebrity for doing drugs while defending Edie.
@Tigerlily21 There is no way I can disagree with you. I believe, however that part of Edie's appeal, which has made her legendary, is that her life was so wasted when she had so much in the palm of her hands. We can only imagine what she could have done. Warhol was no dummy, he made her like a living piece of art work. It could be the other way around; if Edith were alive today, would there be such an interest in her? I think you may be saying this?
@Tigerlily21 you are so very wrong, try again. she was a muse to artists and musicians, she lived her entire life as a work of art. chloe sevigny would love to be remembered as edie is to this day. as for lindsay lohan comparisons, please spare us your dimestore analysis. edie has been relevant for the past 35+ years and she will remain relevant to girls and women around the globe.
@Tigerlily21 she was bloody gorgeous, funny, carefree, lovely, she practically started the 60's style, people just admire her because she's just brilliant
@Tigerlily21 I have to disagree. First of all, Lindsay already looks like a 30 something year old Jersey housewife, so she missed the boat on dying "young and beautiful". Second, Edie hung out with and was enamored with influential and even great artists. I mean, she had an affair with Bob Dylan. Who does Paris hang out with? The director of The Hangover? The singer from Good Charlotte? The beautiful women who inspire great men are fascinating. Plus this picture exists:
@Tigerlily21 I hate to say it but I believe Edie is only a hero to all the doped out, drunken rich women in America who are spoiled rotten. The drug companies won out over street drugs but more people are dying of prescribed overdoses now than back in the 60's. Down with Pfizer & all the rest! To hell with the shareholders!!!
@Tigerlily21 I can't agree with you.People take wrong choices,but that doesn't make them bad people.Edie had to go through a lot of pain in her life,if you've ever read her biography, including two of her siblings dying,herself being forced to take unnessecary medication (against her will),being forced into psychiatrc clinics,her dad abusing her, more than one tries to commit suicide and all of that.She just wanted the pain to go away.And she was not just beautiful from the outside.
@TheBonesofBabyDolls you obviously don't know that much about edie sedgwick. she was very well spoken, articulate and determined. the drugs eventually killed her, yes, but she was very troubled and was essentially doomed in that sense.
@TheBonesofBabyDolls It's easy to dismiss someone as dumb because they are light-hearted, flighty, or childlike, but natural intelligence is not concerned with intellectual seriousness in the least (despite the fact that many people want to pretend otherwise). Just like some of the most brilliant minds throughout history have been self-loathing, substance-addicted kooks, contrarily, many well-educated people have no common sense or adaptation skills and are hopeless outside a classroom.
Wow, she was a true beauty. Such a tragedy what she went through. Especially what she put up with from her creep of a father. No wonder she was so messed up, poor girl.
Hey, did you know theres a retrospective of Nats work from 20th Jan - 14th Feb at a gallery in London called IDEA GENERATION you should check it out! :-)
I actually think you might have a point about an eating disorder. I've read literally dozens of interviews and bios about the factory/warhol and from what i gather, a few people who were close to her suspected the same thing. Although she never exercised and had virtually no muscle tone, she was thin as a rail with a body type that looks remarkably similar to many well known anorexics/bulimics today. I could be wrong, though
It was not just suspected; a number of sources from Andy Warhol to Brigid Berlin and Edie's sister confirmed that she would binge on large portions of food and throw it all up afterward. Taking a lot of speed also suppressed her appetite, and she was said to have been a natural athlete (she danced jazz ballet often). She had also been institutionalised for anorexia as a teenager.
Wow, I didn't know about all stuff. Thanks for explaining. I've read quite a bit about her but never came across anything definitive one way or the other about her having an eating disorder. How severe was her case? You mentioned throwing up, so I suppose she had bulimia. I thought she was institutionalized for generalized psychiatric issues, not an actual eating disorder, since eating disorders weren't really understood back then..
No problem! Edie was sent to Silver Hill when her father found out about her eating habits (though it was also other issues she had) and it was there that she dropped to 90 pounds, before being sent to a stricter hospital. Apparently Edie's habit of "pigging" was inherited from her father, who rather than vomiting, would exercise it off. I don't know to when her bulimia continued, but a patient who knew her in 1969 recalled her eating enormous amounts while staying thin, so perhaps it remained.
@xXPinkGoddessXx You should study to be a doctor, put your memory and facts into something that could help people instead of caring about so much of nothing,
@ritter89 actually during this period she exercized ALOT. remember those "jazz ballet lessons" she always mentioned ?.. also during the Ciao!" filming david weisman remarked they could never find her for ('60's sequences ) filming bcuz "she had to do her exercizes" or this or that. and people always remarked about her amazing muscle tone, from years of horseback riding. altho by the end it looked like she had stopped, even amidst her massive drug-taking she managed to aerobicize.
But Dylan actually profited from using Edie as a muse, although her REAL relationship was with Bob Neuwirth, and she only had a fling with Dylan. Dylan used her & dropped her! Betsey Johnson, the designer who used Edie as her very first fitting model, said that nothing has changed since the basic designs of the "60's, only variations of it, the black tights, the fitted tops with cut arm holes, Edie WAS fashion! She wore one long antique drop ear ring & was "The Girl in Black Tights" in Vogue,
Bob didn't use her and drop her lol wtf. He wrote those songs obviously after their "relationship" or whatever the fuck it was ended. It's not like he went into it being "Hey, I'mma write some songs about this chick and then ditch her" as opposed to what Andy did. You know shit(So do I but this all from my own opinion, not trying to make facts) about went down during the very little time they had together, so don't act like you know what either of theirs intentions were, if they even had any
I love Dylan & never said that was his intention, I am just reporting the fact, since people seem to think Warhol used her. If anyone did her wrong it was Dylan because he lied to her & was screwing her while he was married, & never let on.
Oh my god. You do know that all there is to support these "facts" is a few friends of theres who have said that they knew each other for a while. lol no one even has comeout and said exactly for sure when they were "together"'. Everyone has a freaking different story. So don't tell me you know this for a "fact" when you werent there and all you know is stuff you've read that most likely have been contradicted by someone elses story. Also, warhol did use her, along with a million other people.
He was married during their "purported" relationship. Is that better? And it's well documented that she was upset upon finding out, by more than a "few" people, and that is the only fact I was referring to.
Ahaha but you said other stuff were facts too. It's no secret that Bob wasn't exactly faithful to most of the women he was with lol. It is well documented that she was upset upon hearing he's gotten married, but do we know timings or dates for sure? Hell no. We know shit. Sara actually lived with Bob in The Chelsea, Jesse was born there. If Edie and Bob's fling or whatever had extended that long it would've been clear.
The fact that Warhol threw the marriage in her face & that she was upset about it is well documented and one of the few things that has never been contradicted.
How do you know it hasn't been contradicted? Have you read every single document there is? Every. Single. Little. Wrong or right document? No. Of course not.
Warhol used Edie, among many others, but it didn't cause her downfall, she was unstable & vulnerable because she was raised isolated from the rest of the world by a powerful Father who abused her sexually, psychologically, & physically. She had been in many mental hospitals prior to ever meeting Warhol. Unfortunately, Dylan saw all of this & articulated it on Blond on Blond, & Like a Rolling Stone is not very kind, it is so very true. Nobody ever says that Dylan exploited her.
I hardly think it's fair to accuse someone of sexual and physical abuse based on speculation. Edie's memory is not the only one at stake when discussing her life and defending her only to tarnish the memory of others is counterproductive.
It isn't based on MY speculation, or Edie's memories alone, at least 20 people have confirmed this about Edie's Father, he was abusive sexually, physically, & emotionally to most of his children, & is why only 1 out 3 of his sons did NOT commit suicide, and he was advised to never have children by his psychologist. From a psychological standpoint & many witnesses, it has NOTHING to do with my speculation. And I'm not defending Edie, just explaining the obvious reason behind her downfall.
No, I wasn't referring to your speculation, but the speculation of others. Can you tell me some of the others who attested to the sexual abuse claims? I question it because one of Edie's nieces had said the sexual abuse claims were sensationalism.
I doubt that Edie's nieces were around. When Edie was kid & walked into the room & saw her Dad screwing some lady, & he drugged her and told her that she didn't see anything, that is a form of sexual abuse. Edie's younger sister has attested to direct sexual abuse. Edie's therapist has hinted at sexual abuse. Edie's father tried to sleep with his son's wives, & occasionally succeeded, and his list of crimes is legendary, why are you defending this man? I can look up the names & dates of every 1
What's going on? She has a busted lip and a scar or bruise across the bridge of her nose. How could someone have such a poor image of herself. Poor kid.
I like Mena Suvari, but I thought she was sh!te as Richie Berlin. Berlin is far less ebullient, warm, and enthusiastic as Suvari's portrayal made her out to be. Berlin was way more morose-yet-eccentric and deadpan. Suvari was too bubbly.
The movie is only so-so, IMO. They could have done more with it. Guy Pearce is obviously great as Andy and Sienna Miller brings a lot to her portrayal of Edie, but Hayden Christansen as 'the love interest' (basically Bob Dylan, but they had to change his title due to litigation issues) is a joke. The movie is very good visually but it tries too hard to be 'deep' and just ends up seeming shallow.
God, yeah, that movie is the shallowest piece of crap I have ever seen. I didn't like Sienna Miller in it. I never liked Sienna Miller, in anything, but I thought hey - it's Edie, give it a chance. Huge mistake. And Pearce, I think, portrays Warhol as some kind of using, immature asshole. I just didn't like it. But I find myself watching it, still. Curious, that.
Yeah, I've never been a fan of Sienna's acting either - there's just something about her mannerisms that irritates me. I wanted to throttle her when I saw her play 'Victoria' in the movie Stardust! I also thought she was dire in the movie Cassanova w/ Heath Ledger. I'm sure she's a nice enough person but... ugh, the acting... Pearce did play up the exploitative, immature aspects of Andy, yep, but he immitated Andy v.well. He also lost a ton of weight to play him - not that Pearce was ever big.
oh is that a scar.i see now.i thought it was a uni brow,how did she get it?she's just breathtaking in every way, i wish i had the confidence to walk out the house in some of the amazing things she wears.
Oh its sad, she was in two car accidents resulting in a couple scars. but this particular one was on New Years, same night her brother killed himself on his motorcycle. She only had a scar on her forehead (obviously) and when watching Beauty #2, she talks about her other scar on her left knee, I believe.
they were probably prettier because , because of the way the makeup was applied and the excellent haircuts- that not any so called hair stylist could ever do these days.
and not applying fake colored contacts that can look like demons.
@MorganVictoria92 You have got to be joking. People look the same. It's the style that's changed. You retrospective escapists need to relax. This era is pretty great. Would you really want to live in a time where minorites and homosexuals were treated like shit?
@whoareyou342 I fully agree. It's easy to shine a magnified rose-coloured lens on a particular decade, and indeed, there WERE many aspects of the 60's that were gloriously superior and will never be seen again, but all coins have two sides. Not everyone was living the silver-walled, amphetamine-fuelled, fake eye-lashed high life Edie was (and even that had a very dark shadow behind it).
I totally agree, we have no icons that just sum up our era, because what is our era? We just copy the music and fasion from the 60's, 70's and 80's.........'revival' or whatever, we have nothing orginal..
I definitely agree, and have thought about that many times.
We have many defining men - Johnny Depp, George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Leonardo DiCaprio - but which women can our era offer to history, to future generations?
Angelina Jolie has a timeless beauty, but it's just that, timeless. She stands on her own as a gorgeous woman and doesn't neessarily define our own era..
Since plastic surgery has become less popular, "honest" beauty is definitely lost. It's difficult to determine whose beauty
(cont'd) is real. None of our actresses really stand out anymore, not like Edie Sedgwick and other beauties from the 60's and 70's.
Plus there's the whole element of high-definition film and so on - millions of people have seen EVERY aspect, pore, and angle of many of today's actresses. The beauties of previous eras had that element of mystery to them which is, unfortunately, lost on today's generation.
And the FASHION! I completely agree. When future kids will want to dress up as the
(cont'd again, sorry, lol) "2000's," (as we can dress up as the 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's now) - what on EARTH will they wear? Thanks to mass communication trends rise and fall at such a fast-paced rate. It feels like everything has already been pioneered...
It feels like there's nothing new anymore. Even reality-TV and fifteen minutes of fame - blogs, Myspace celebrities, Youtube stars - Andy Warhol saw it all coming!
Basically, we need truly creative minds again, in this generation!
@SmartBlonde0 I absolutely agree. It's all been done before. Everything was already done in the 1960s. But the frontier today is maybe the Internet, not music, movies, literature or art.
Oops - in my first post I meant "necessarily" and MORE popular, not less. I see how people jump on grammatical mistakes here on Youtube, so I'm making sure to correct that!
@sweetshaman I agree of course, but I really don't have any reference points because I was born way too late, in 1965. But you're right: partially, culturally at least, this era sucks. I'm not saying the 1960s were perfect, just a whole lot better. And about Edie: she is probably just as big a cultural icon now, in 2010, as in the mid-1960s. Incredible. She continues to amaze me.
@sweetshaman I wish i didn't have to agree with you, but I do. One of the reasons this era sucks so bad is that the big four (or three...) record companies OWN everything and control what's on the radio and so on. Also, the women were more beautiful then maybe, although I saw one today that I would want to spend some time with... She had billion-dollar legs and an angelic face, just like Edie.
With her white skin and brown eyes, the eye makeup created a chariscuro. This is a term used by painters for a combination of lights and darks placed together so as to intensity the contrast for a dramatic effect. She had studied art seriously, and probably knew about chariscuro. It would have looked weird on some women, but her face looked so innocent she could get away with it.
@newyorkeastside everything is new which it gets to the point that were sick of the original . everyone is fighting to be original but it all comes out the same missmatched shite .
Lou in love idea ... Who wouldn't fall in love with her? I'll bet half the gay men fell in love with her! I think Lou idolized her then discovered her flaws, which didn't fit his concept of her, so he went all the way in the other direction and made her a demon. As he once sang, "Yeah, she looked pretty regal to me, goes to show how wrong you can be." There are other Lou Reed songs that remind you of her. One reason for the tease rumor: being frigid, she kept looking for a good
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inSSurrecta 2 weeks ago
@Tigerlily21 a whole damn lot of people did drugs and were rich back in 60s but do you realise they weren't all legends? moreover, "more intelligent and stylish" is a great difference right here, edie was special, even comparisons to her contemporaries are irrelevant, not to mention modern "celebrities".
vacuumreality 3 weeks ago
I love her laugh <3
GirlFlyAway 3 weeks ago
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she would have died of cigarette smoking she smoked so much its discusting
41gagavision 1 month ago
i think a comparison to paris hilton is innaccurate. i find her interesting.
maddyk94 3 months ago 2
Even if Edie didn't have any "talent" there was something undeniably charming about her, I mean this is a girl who could keep people captivated simply by being present.
regios4ever 4 months ago 2
Whoops, YouTube doesn't allow URLs. Well search "Edie Sedgwick Velvet Underground". It takes my breath away.
TheGenYgirl 5 months ago
poor little rich girl :)
Sixtiesera 5 months ago
Edie Sedgwick is represents her era. She is Warhols queen, who was trapped in his factory of lies, where everybody dreamt of fame and almost none achieved it. That's why she is so famous, because she was part of the 60s. Both a product and a victim of those tumultuous years.
gotchewz 6 months ago
i don't see what's so wonderful about edie sedgwick other than the fact that she is from an era we were not really a part of and she was beautiful, so its kind of retro and cool to be "into" her. 40 yrs from now, people will say the same thing about paris hilton, assuming she dies young.
marialuisabaltodano 6 months ago
she brought something to the table and made an impression with it. she was a talent
davesmasher 7 months ago 6
@davesmasher that's truue..
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MowgliX 7 months ago
GORGEOUS!!!
hektorm 7 months ago
whoa whoa whoaa....people...edie may be a legend and i love her but don't be comparing Chloe sevigny with lohan and paris....Chloe does have much talent and she's one of the closest nowadays to becoming a true legend as well much like edie. people REALLY need to think before they talk. I love edie and i love chloe but don't group the talentless (paris and lindsay) with the talented (chloe) Edie and chloe will be the one's with talent. don't confuse them.
TheFeelin89 7 months ago
question: if not the beauty then what do we glorify? I think maybe we should stop putting things on a pedestal as an act in general. BUt then, it is in human nature to idolize and to worship, as we have done through our existence in some form or another. Perhaps to discover the root is to unearth the need and end the trifle once and for all. I ask u, really, what does it all mean?
rubberrand142 9 months ago
@rubberrand142 You know, I really do idolize people for their beauty sometimes, its wrong. Beautiful people take the beauty out of myself because I get too consumed with them, I don't know. I think its hard not to love beautiful people.
alyrill 8 months ago
I think her family was the start of her downfall if it's true about sexual abuse starting at age nine and her mother knowing and doing nothing about it. people should't be so hard on her for the drug use. She seemed like such a sweet, damaged person who made some terrible choices.
marlee0411 10 months ago 4
Someone should have helped her. She had an eating disorder and drug addiction and she came from people with lots of money.
czivley1 11 months ago
@czivley1 her father was evil! he shamed his own son in2 killing himself just cuz he was gay.
rubberrand142 9 months ago
@megacapitalistpig: frankly the effects of heroin, etc were known by the time Edie was using. Uppers, downers, speedballs... Edie did a lot of "self-medicating" when she wasn't being treated for depression (the truly misunderstood and maltreated condition of the day). Marijuana was considered a gateway drug for many years.
ManicMagpie 11 months ago
Why is everybody so goddamn judgmental? I'm sorry not everybody is as strong as you are.
MegaCapitalistPig 11 months ago
Can you imagine the time she existed in? Dylan, Stones, Beetles, Factory? Can you imagine yourself in those days? It's not uncommon to be fucked over today. So sad that she couldn't get it together.
chunkmasterchunk 1 year ago
what a pitiful and shallow existence...
a young person relying only on his image... miserable creature....
kangax 1 year ago
She was a drug addict with lots of psychologic problems due to abuse and family issues, yes she was beautiful, honest, and had lots of style but to call her a legend and a whole model is sick. Addiction and self destructive behavior is very painfull and is only adressed whith glory by addicts themselves. Ive seen this kind of lifestyle myself and I gotta tell you there's nothing glorious about it, people are fake, cruel, and you can only take yourself, your soul, your body to a limit
TheRachel33 1 year ago
Edie hung out with Warhol, Ginsberg, Lou Reed, Dylan - she was part of a revolutionary creative circle that changed America - we are all (women and men) wearing fashions today that she helped to create - our music today is directly rooted in the music that she and her friends made and made cool - no one will remember the cuties of today who are famous for shopping, drugs and going panty-less. Edie was a sad junkie who wrecked her life in the end but for a time she was part of something huge.
CandOnyc 1 year ago 5
@CandOnyc Oh, absolutely, that so true! And not only the US. You see traces of Edie everywhere. In essence, I think the 1960s was the first truly modern decade. She wasted her life away, but she was one of the people who changed the world.
MowgliX 1 year ago
I hate these fucking supeficial sluts i want to abuse them
vipmousasi 1 year ago
@vipmousasi She wasnt superficial. she was someone who wanted to do good things. she just went about in a way that really wasnt to her best interest. Just b/c you dont like someone,doesnt give you the right to be abousive. that's disgusting.
lovelygoldensparrow 1 year ago
People are only glorifying her because she's beautiful and died young. I mean the comments on this page are evidence of that. If Lindsay Lohan died in the near future, all the people who dissed her would be raving about her. Let's face it, Sedgwick was basically the Paris Hilton of the 60s only more intelligent and stylish. Chloe Sevigny was right when she said she was just a rich socialite who did a lot of drugs and didn't really accomplish anything.
Tigerlily21 1 year ago 6
@Tigerlily21 here's the diff tho: Edie is a Legend; Chloe, talented & creative as she may be, is NOT (and never will be.)
desertshore 1 year ago 31
@desertshore I agree there must be some difference, but how will we know? I hope they die old and in homes. Edie died because she fell asleep face down on a pillow. She was part of a society which has all but disinigrated, and left it for one which has become mainstream. Youtube is what Warhol's underground shit has transformed into. It is everything he ever wanted and everything he ever imagined- looking at people and taking pictures of them while never actually interacting. Peace.
naltrexone23X 11 months ago
@naltrexone23X God, you nailed it, bro or sis - whoever you are
ModellStJames111 11 months ago
@desertshore That's only because of people's priorities on what is a celebrity (a person worthy of celebration). Our priorities are evidently wrong. We create lots of "legends" out of figures unworthy of consideration, let alone admiration, such as gangsters. Chloe Sevigny's an accomplished and talented actress who's created Art, however big or small her contribution is. Edie Sedgwick we can only admire the same way we admire a beautiful bird getting beautifully devoured by a predator.
sternumagnum 10 months ago
@sternumagnum
As much as I adore this Factory footage and admire the time, I concur
with your thoughts.
Too much worship in this world for all the wrong reasons, admiration, fascination sure, I am there too, but the LEGENDARY bullshit gets to be a bit much to bare.
Love her though and sad she didn't get the chance to flourish.
bunnymize 10 months ago
@desertshore Why is she a legend?
kurtywurty85 8 months ago
@desertshore I think you've COMPLETELY missed the point of the original post. The point is: she's only a legend because she was beautiful and died young! She didn't do anything, she was talentless. Period.
ReallyBigJump 7 months ago
@desertshore and Edie was a real muse.
ezywonder 1 month ago
@Tigerlily21 I'd have to disagree with you. Yes she may have been a socialite drug addict, but she was a muse for Andy Warhol and not only that she was technically the first "IT" girl. She just wanted to be loved and the tradgedy of her life consumed her. I would never compare her to Paris Hilton or Lindsay Lohan.
AFaULTLinE11 1 year ago
@AFaULTLinE11 Amen to that.
lovelygoldensparrow 1 year ago
@Tigerlily21 a) she was never a tabloid queen, unlike paris hilton
b) she never got to to be known for her work, because of her fucked up life
c) she clearly suffered from a mental illness, due to annorexia, sexual abuse, drugs.
d) SHE HAD STYLE.
Brendansanatomy 1 year ago 4
@Brendansanatomy I think you pretty much nailed it. The difference between Edie and many others is that Edie will be remembered for a long time. The others will fade away.
MowgliX 1 year ago
@Tigerlily21 who are you to say she didnt accomplish anything? sure she didnt live until she was 80, have kids and get a respectable job, her life was just.. different.
Nannahe 1 year ago
@Tigerlily21 Chloe Sevigny? that girl needs a personality and a Berlitz to teach her what a f**king umlaut really is. what idiot would bring up some nobody like her?!
5winston 1 year ago
@Tigerlily21 I partly agree. You should however acknowledge her tragic past giving her a special madness, that's sorta what romanticizes and differentiates her from a paris hilton or a lindsey lohan... It might not be righteously seen, but it is true.
TheAna1234 1 year ago
@Tigerlily21 Not true. While I agree, people are absolutely over-romanticized when their dead, Edie was something else. There is no comparison to Paris. She was a style icon, literally turning the fashion world upside down - she was an embodiment of sixties culture in it's excesses, presenting a tragic and sobering view of the era - and she intelligent and raw in a time where women were not supposed to be that, when wasn't widely accepted. Warhols films are also historically relevant to cinema.
LiveVinyl 11 months ago
@LiveVinyl By that logic, she's also relevant, being a Warhol superstar. Also, Edies drugs problems can at least be attributed to the cultural experimentation of 1960's youth, what's Lindsay Lohans excuse? You can pinpoint her as a druggie and all that, but it was kind of part of the lifestyle of most kids back then, to get hooked on something, to mess around with that bullshit. It was a form of rebellion and what they believed to be a 'spiritual and mental liberation'.
LiveVinyl 11 months ago
@LiveVinyl There is no such thing as a valid "excuse" for hard drug abuse. There were plenty of people who abstained from hard drugs in Edie's time, just as there are plenty of drug addicts today. Drug experimentation is still part of the youth lifestyle for many Americans today, even if it is less significant than in Edie's time. Lindsay Lohan isn't any less deserving of sympathy than Edie was over her own drug-induced decline; people abuse drugs out of weakness and weakness only.
xXPinkGoddessXx 11 months ago
@xXPinkGoddessXx
Its not that its a valid 'excuse', Just that it was what it was. Of course youth will always be surrounded by drug experimentation. It's not *right* but it was INGRAINED in the culture of the time period. It wasn't viewed as a morally reprehensible thing in much of the culture to smoke pot. The life-changing effects of heroin and harder drugs were not known the way they are now. It was a way to open your mind to new things and try and reach new planes of thought and existence.
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xXPinkGoddessXx 11 months ago
@MegaCapitalistPig LiveVinyl said "What was Lindsay Lohan's excuse?" which clearly implied that Edie's drug addiction was somehow excused. Moral reprehensibility isn't the primary concern with drug abuse; damage to health and wellbeing is, and Edie knew that drugs were killing her regardless of how common it was in her social circle. I wasn't judging Edie morally for using drugs in any way, merely pointing out the hypocrisy in criticising a modern celebrity for doing drugs while defending Edie.
xXPinkGoddessXx 11 months ago
@LiveVinyl Could you please supply an example or two of Edie's intelligence?
newaccountdebzbd 11 months ago
@Tigerlily21 Lohan, Paris, and Sevigny aren't fit to hold Edie's coat.
Edie possessed an otherwordly beauty (much like Monroe) and was ruined by incest, sibling suicides, depression, and drugs.
Comparing Edie Sedgwick to today's talent-free twerps is an insult.
KellyGreen5555 10 months ago 2
@Tigerlily21 There is no way I can disagree with you. I believe, however that part of Edie's appeal, which has made her legendary, is that her life was so wasted when she had so much in the palm of her hands. We can only imagine what she could have done. Warhol was no dummy, he made her like a living piece of art work. It could be the other way around; if Edith were alive today, would there be such an interest in her? I think you may be saying this?
VelvetUndergoundfu1 10 months ago
@Tigerlily21 you are so very wrong, try again. she was a muse to artists and musicians, she lived her entire life as a work of art. chloe sevigny would love to be remembered as edie is to this day. as for lindsay lohan comparisons, please spare us your dimestore analysis. edie has been relevant for the past 35+ years and she will remain relevant to girls and women around the globe.
glassineheart 10 months ago 4
@Tigerlily21 as much as i love edie, i kinda agree with u in a way
rose7art 9 months ago
@Tigerlily21 she was bloody gorgeous, funny, carefree, lovely, she practically started the 60's style, people just admire her because she's just brilliant
shards555 6 months ago in playlist IIIIIIInterviews && Shoots 5
@Tigerlily21 I have to disagree. First of all, Lindsay already looks like a 30 something year old Jersey housewife, so she missed the boat on dying "young and beautiful". Second, Edie hung out with and was enamored with influential and even great artists. I mean, she had an affair with Bob Dylan. Who does Paris hang out with? The director of The Hangover? The singer from Good Charlotte? The beautiful women who inspire great men are fascinating. Plus this picture exists:
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@Tigerlily21 I hate to say it but I believe Edie is only a hero to all the doped out, drunken rich women in America who are spoiled rotten. The drug companies won out over street drugs but more people are dying of prescribed overdoses now than back in the 60's. Down with Pfizer & all the rest! To hell with the shareholders!!!
dualityofman999 3 weeks ago
@Tigerlily21 I can't agree with you.People take wrong choices,but that doesn't make them bad people.Edie had to go through a lot of pain in her life,if you've ever read her biography, including two of her siblings dying,herself being forced to take unnessecary medication (against her will),being forced into psychiatrc clinics,her dad abusing her, more than one tries to commit suicide and all of that.She just wanted the pain to go away.And she was not just beautiful from the outside.
SonnyXXInvisible 2 weeks ago
Beautiful but dumber than a rock. People who do drugs are fucking losers!
TheBonesofBabyDolls 1 year ago
@TheBonesofBabyDolls you obviously don't know that much about edie sedgwick. she was very well spoken, articulate and determined. the drugs eventually killed her, yes, but she was very troubled and was essentially doomed in that sense.
circethesorceress 1 year ago
@TheBonesofBabyDolls It's easy to dismiss someone as dumb because they are light-hearted, flighty, or childlike, but natural intelligence is not concerned with intellectual seriousness in the least (despite the fact that many people want to pretend otherwise). Just like some of the most brilliant minds throughout history have been self-loathing, substance-addicted kooks, contrarily, many well-educated people have no common sense or adaptation skills and are hopeless outside a classroom.
xXPinkGoddessXx 1 year ago
she kind of has the same smile as kiera knightly all though she is alot prettier
anney0207 1 year ago
I wish I look like her...
agatkasan 1 year ago 3
The book is great and informative.
Sienna Miller did a great job in that movie.
She looked and talked and acted just like her.
1MarylynnMonroe 1 year ago 3
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Jennifer Gardner looks like her!
yaduhyaduh 2 years ago
@yaduhyaduh her smile yes but not her face
4tehlulzzz 1 year ago 2
@yaduhyaduh yes i can see what you mean..they have similarities in their face
hunnedfourthstreet 1 year ago
no way
TatouHep 1 year ago
God she's like perfection! So incredibly gorgeous and original
meantamborine 2 years ago 23
@meantamborine Well...she did have that suspicious mole on her face.
SUCKMEISTER005 5 months ago
Wow, she was a true beauty. Such a tragedy what she went through. Especially what she put up with from her creep of a father. No wonder she was so messed up, poor girl.
missmarie273 2 years ago 5
Sienna's performance is amazing. Perfect to a T. Has Edie's voice and laugh down to....it's scarily accurate. Olsen is in it for about 11 seconds.
aoifenicsheain 2 years ago
Is she stoned? Cuz she's not making any sense. But I can't hear it very well either. She was beautiful!
giaisbomb 2 years ago
i love edie !
wandah1120 2 years ago
She has so much intresting facial expressions you can watch her on mute
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kepleykriner 2 years ago
Edie Sedgwick was bulimic.
MissYouthquaker 2 years ago
@MissYouthquaker so?
sbm00 2 years ago
CALM DOWN TWITTER e.e
pearlthegirl 2 years ago
I actually think you might have a point about an eating disorder. I've read literally dozens of interviews and bios about the factory/warhol and from what i gather, a few people who were close to her suspected the same thing. Although she never exercised and had virtually no muscle tone, she was thin as a rail with a body type that looks remarkably similar to many well known anorexics/bulimics today. I could be wrong, though
ritter89 2 years ago
It was not just suspected; a number of sources from Andy Warhol to Brigid Berlin and Edie's sister confirmed that she would binge on large portions of food and throw it all up afterward. Taking a lot of speed also suppressed her appetite, and she was said to have been a natural athlete (she danced jazz ballet often). She had also been institutionalised for anorexia as a teenager.
xXPinkGoddessXx 2 years ago 4
Wow, I didn't know about all stuff. Thanks for explaining. I've read quite a bit about her but never came across anything definitive one way or the other about her having an eating disorder. How severe was her case? You mentioned throwing up, so I suppose she had bulimia. I thought she was institutionalized for generalized psychiatric issues, not an actual eating disorder, since eating disorders weren't really understood back then..
ritter89 2 years ago 4
No problem! Edie was sent to Silver Hill when her father found out about her eating habits (though it was also other issues she had) and it was there that she dropped to 90 pounds, before being sent to a stricter hospital. Apparently Edie's habit of "pigging" was inherited from her father, who rather than vomiting, would exercise it off. I don't know to when her bulimia continued, but a patient who knew her in 1969 recalled her eating enormous amounts while staying thin, so perhaps it remained.
xXPinkGoddessXx 2 years ago 4
@xXPinkGoddessXx You should study to be a doctor, put your memory and facts into something that could help people instead of caring about so much of nothing,
gina888warhol1 1 year ago
@ritter89 actually during this period she exercized ALOT. remember those "jazz ballet lessons" she always mentioned ?.. also during the Ciao!" filming david weisman remarked they could never find her for ('60's sequences ) filming bcuz "she had to do her exercizes" or this or that. and people always remarked about her amazing muscle tone, from years of horseback riding. altho by the end it looked like she had stopped, even amidst her massive drug-taking she managed to aerobicize.
desertshore 1 year ago
@ritter89 She did her exercises twice a day! Just look at her legs!
MowgliX 1 year ago
@MissYouthquaker Probably. In fact, probably the least of her considerable problems.
Scottrchrdsn 2 years ago
I believe Keira Knightley looks just like her
she could have been better than Sienna
I love Sienna, but she looked too grown-up in that Factory girl movie
InterHalfer 2 years ago 4
honestly, i was about to watch that movie (i saw the first couple minutes too) until i saw the name "Mary Kate-Olsen" and I just shut it.
i'm not the only one who remains skeptical about that movie
lou hates it.
inabeautifulplace 2 years ago
she's in it for about, half a minute. It's such a great film. You're being way too quick to judge.
myheadhurtsalot 2 years ago
actually it's a piece of shit. read a book about edie instead and stop sucking sienna miller's useless tits.
hudsterboy 2 years ago 3
But Dylan actually profited from using Edie as a muse, although her REAL relationship was with Bob Neuwirth, and she only had a fling with Dylan. Dylan used her & dropped her! Betsey Johnson, the designer who used Edie as her very first fitting model, said that nothing has changed since the basic designs of the "60's, only variations of it, the black tights, the fitted tops with cut arm holes, Edie WAS fashion! She wore one long antique drop ear ring & was "The Girl in Black Tights" in Vogue,
jarileigh 2 years ago
Bob didn't use her and drop her lol wtf. He wrote those songs obviously after their "relationship" or whatever the fuck it was ended. It's not like he went into it being "Hey, I'mma write some songs about this chick and then ditch her" as opposed to what Andy did. You know shit(So do I but this all from my own opinion, not trying to make facts) about went down during the very little time they had together, so don't act like you know what either of theirs intentions were, if they even had any
zazwina 2 years ago
I love Dylan & never said that was his intention, I am just reporting the fact, since people seem to think Warhol used her. If anyone did her wrong it was Dylan because he lied to her & was screwing her while he was married, & never let on.
jarileigh 2 years ago 3
Oh my god. You do know that all there is to support these "facts" is a few friends of theres who have said that they knew each other for a while. lol no one even has comeout and said exactly for sure when they were "together"'. Everyone has a freaking different story. So don't tell me you know this for a "fact" when you werent there and all you know is stuff you've read that most likely have been contradicted by someone elses story. Also, warhol did use her, along with a million other people.
zazwina 2 years ago
He was married during their "purported" relationship. Is that better? And it's well documented that she was upset upon finding out, by more than a "few" people, and that is the only fact I was referring to.
jarileigh 2 years ago
Ahaha but you said other stuff were facts too. It's no secret that Bob wasn't exactly faithful to most of the women he was with lol. It is well documented that she was upset upon hearing he's gotten married, but do we know timings or dates for sure? Hell no. We know shit. Sara actually lived with Bob in The Chelsea, Jesse was born there. If Edie and Bob's fling or whatever had extended that long it would've been clear.
zazwina 2 years ago
Yes, there is an exact date. No I'm not going to look it up for you, but it was in November 1965.
jarileigh 2 years ago
And she wasn't just upset, she was SHOCKED, as if he had let her think they had a relationship.
jarileigh 2 years ago
The fact that Warhol threw the marriage in her face & that she was upset about it is well documented and one of the few things that has never been contradicted.
jarileigh 2 years ago
How do you know it hasn't been contradicted? Have you read every single document there is? Every. Single. Little. Wrong or right document? No. Of course not.
zazwina 2 years ago
Warhol used Edie, among many others, but it didn't cause her downfall, she was unstable & vulnerable because she was raised isolated from the rest of the world by a powerful Father who abused her sexually, psychologically, & physically. She had been in many mental hospitals prior to ever meeting Warhol. Unfortunately, Dylan saw all of this & articulated it on Blond on Blond, & Like a Rolling Stone is not very kind, it is so very true. Nobody ever says that Dylan exploited her.
jarileigh 2 years ago
I hardly think it's fair to accuse someone of sexual and physical abuse based on speculation. Edie's memory is not the only one at stake when discussing her life and defending her only to tarnish the memory of others is counterproductive.
xXPinkGoddessXx 2 years ago
It isn't based on MY speculation, or Edie's memories alone, at least 20 people have confirmed this about Edie's Father, he was abusive sexually, physically, & emotionally to most of his children, & is why only 1 out 3 of his sons did NOT commit suicide, and he was advised to never have children by his psychologist. From a psychological standpoint & many witnesses, it has NOTHING to do with my speculation. And I'm not defending Edie, just explaining the obvious reason behind her downfall.
jarileigh 2 years ago 4
No, I wasn't referring to your speculation, but the speculation of others. Can you tell me some of the others who attested to the sexual abuse claims? I question it because one of Edie's nieces had said the sexual abuse claims were sensationalism.
xXPinkGoddessXx 2 years ago
I doubt that Edie's nieces were around. When Edie was kid & walked into the room & saw her Dad screwing some lady, & he drugged her and told her that she didn't see anything, that is a form of sexual abuse. Edie's younger sister has attested to direct sexual abuse. Edie's therapist has hinted at sexual abuse. Edie's father tried to sleep with his son's wives, & occasionally succeeded, and his list of crimes is legendary, why are you defending this man? I can look up the names & dates of every 1
jarileigh 2 years ago 3
I completely agree with the previous comments.
Something big has to happen, and has to happen soon.
It won't be long, of course. Something good is in the making amongst all the recycled soulless garbage of today, I can assure you.
PolaroidSX70 2 years ago 2
SmartBlonde0.... I agree with you..I think we are doomed as a species..I think its over..
TwinkleSpaceGirl 2 years ago
What's going on? She has a busted lip and a scar or bruise across the bridge of her nose. How could someone have such a poor image of herself. Poor kid.
TheGranule 2 years ago 3
she was involved in a car accident and i know. thats how she got that little scar above her nose. i assume that explains the lip as well.
surfchic168c 2 years ago
And yes, I realise that Richie Berlin is (unbelievably, after her gargantuan consumption of drugs), STILL VERY MUCH ALIVE! :-p
Dingalingring 2 years ago
I like Mena Suvari, but I thought she was sh!te as Richie Berlin. Berlin is far less ebullient, warm, and enthusiastic as Suvari's portrayal made her out to be. Berlin was way more morose-yet-eccentric and deadpan. Suvari was too bubbly.
Dingalingring 2 years ago
her smile reminds me of Jennifer Garner's......nd i wanna see "Factory Girl"...Edie Sedgwick fans, is that a good idea?
dskennie 2 years ago 3
the movie is amazing.
see it.
madisutbzz69 2 years ago 3
thanks;)
dskennie 2 years ago
The movie is only so-so, IMO. They could have done more with it. Guy Pearce is obviously great as Andy and Sienna Miller brings a lot to her portrayal of Edie, but Hayden Christansen as 'the love interest' (basically Bob Dylan, but they had to change his title due to litigation issues) is a joke. The movie is very good visually but it tries too hard to be 'deep' and just ends up seeming shallow.
Dingalingring 2 years ago
oh, i understand exactly wat ur sayin'....i kinda thought so, thatz why i wasn't sure
dskennie 2 years ago
God, yeah, that movie is the shallowest piece of crap I have ever seen. I didn't like Sienna Miller in it. I never liked Sienna Miller, in anything, but I thought hey - it's Edie, give it a chance. Huge mistake. And Pearce, I think, portrays Warhol as some kind of using, immature asshole. I just didn't like it. But I find myself watching it, still. Curious, that.
VVRamone 2 years ago
Yeah, I've never been a fan of Sienna's acting either - there's just something about her mannerisms that irritates me. I wanted to throttle her when I saw her play 'Victoria' in the movie Stardust! I also thought she was dire in the movie Cassanova w/ Heath Ledger. I'm sure she's a nice enough person but... ugh, the acting... Pearce did play up the exploitative, immature aspects of Andy, yep, but he immitated Andy v.well. He also lost a ton of weight to play him - not that Pearce was ever big.
Dingalingring 2 years ago
sienna did an amazing job. jonathan sedgwick said when he hugged her it was like hugging edie. and warhol WAS a using asshole.
ethanpetty09 2 years ago 2
well,
andy was a using immature asshole,
don't get me wrong, i love him,
but there;s no denying he used edie,
and as soon as she was old news,
he dropped her,
he was quoted saying "edie who?"
when he was informed about the death,
if that isn't a using, immature asshole,
then i don't know what is.
itsbabycakess 2 years ago 7
That wasn't Andy who said "Edie who?" it was Paul Morissey I believe.
xXPinkGoddessXx 2 years ago
Yeah, her smile and even her face is very similar to Jennifer Garner's. Definitely.
Dingalingring 2 years ago 9
yep
dskennie 2 years ago
oh is that a scar.i see now.i thought it was a uni brow,how did she get it?she's just breathtaking in every way, i wish i had the confidence to walk out the house in some of the amazing things she wears.
oldmancecil 2 years ago
Oh its sad, she was in two car accidents resulting in a couple scars. but this particular one was on New Years, same night her brother killed himself on his motorcycle. She only had a scar on her forehead (obviously) and when watching Beauty #2, she talks about her other scar on her left knee, I believe.
SteffiCalifornia 2 years ago
How could a man not want to have sex with her.
80stimeagain 2 years ago
the lighting emphasizes the scar on her head like a bad omen...
pathoplastic 2 years ago
I think that's what makes the video (again) different.
I adore how it not only looks rough but it also looks like it was caught by chance, accident perhaps.
Edie Sedgwick
R.I.P.
BloodBedewedShadow 2 years ago
In my opinion she looks so much like jennifer garner. Like, their smiles are so similar....
Anyhow...edie is edie. So beautiful. :)
auroral 2 years ago 10
they were probably prettier because , because of the way the makeup was applied and the excellent haircuts- that not any so called hair stylist could ever do these days.
and not applying fake colored contacts that can look like demons.
rollergirl311916 2 years ago 4
people were just so much prettier back then..
MorganVictoria92 3 years ago 29
@MorganVictoria92 You have got to be joking. People look the same. It's the style that's changed. You retrospective escapists need to relax. This era is pretty great. Would you really want to live in a time where minorites and homosexuals were treated like shit?
whoareyou342 1 year ago 14
@whoareyou342 I fully agree. It's easy to shine a magnified rose-coloured lens on a particular decade, and indeed, there WERE many aspects of the 60's that were gloriously superior and will never be seen again, but all coins have two sides. Not everyone was living the silver-walled, amphetamine-fuelled, fake eye-lashed high life Edie was (and even that had a very dark shadow behind it).
xXPinkGoddessXx 1 year ago
@whoareyou342 like we aren't now?
ezywonder 1 month ago
@MorganVictoria92 I may have to disagree on that one. There are plenty of beautiful people nowadays too,lol.
lovelygoldensparrow 1 year ago
its Andy that is talking with her ?
jersey006 3 years ago
No its Chuck Wein
noodlezero 3 years ago 2
i love how her eyes sparkle through the makeup
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bugopera 3 years ago 9
Edie had the most beautiful deep dark brown eyes. Somene once said that her eyes looked like twice frozen over dark chocolate.
Dealit707 2 years ago 8
always love,adore, and other words about her~~~
sonicjay007 3 years ago 3
good quality!!!!!
gina888warhol1 3 years ago
i can't understand everything..is anyone sure what she said?
SerialKiss236 3 years ago
she's breathtaking
KidBk313 3 years ago 7
Beauty like that was magic. She was mesmerizing as was the era she lived in.
Her death was part of the era's end. Along with the drug ODs of Hendrix and others - a wake up call to the rest of us.
Our era just sucks. Who do we have? Brit spears?
The 60's and 70's were a magic time. There are no beauties like Edie today in our sucky decade.
sweetshaman 3 years ago 33
I totally agree, we have no icons that just sum up our era, because what is our era? We just copy the music and fasion from the 60's, 70's and 80's.........'revival' or whatever, we have nothing orginal..
SparkyHan 3 years ago 17
I definitely agree, and have thought about that many times.
We have many defining men - Johnny Depp, George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Leonardo DiCaprio - but which women can our era offer to history, to future generations?
Angelina Jolie has a timeless beauty, but it's just that, timeless. She stands on her own as a gorgeous woman and doesn't neessarily define our own era..
Since plastic surgery has become less popular, "honest" beauty is definitely lost. It's difficult to determine whose beauty
SmartBlonde0 2 years ago 4
(cont'd) is real. None of our actresses really stand out anymore, not like Edie Sedgwick and other beauties from the 60's and 70's.
Plus there's the whole element of high-definition film and so on - millions of people have seen EVERY aspect, pore, and angle of many of today's actresses. The beauties of previous eras had that element of mystery to them which is, unfortunately, lost on today's generation.
And the FASHION! I completely agree. When future kids will want to dress up as the
SmartBlonde0 2 years ago 4
(cont'd again, sorry, lol) "2000's," (as we can dress up as the 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's now) - what on EARTH will they wear? Thanks to mass communication trends rise and fall at such a fast-paced rate. It feels like everything has already been pioneered...
It feels like there's nothing new anymore. Even reality-TV and fifteen minutes of fame - blogs, Myspace celebrities, Youtube stars - Andy Warhol saw it all coming!
Basically, we need truly creative minds again, in this generation!
SmartBlonde0 2 years ago 8
That is EXACTLY my feeling too. You are absolutely right. We are stuck in a time loop, and we just recycle old styles.
MowgliX 2 years ago
@SmartBlonde0 I absolutely agree. It's all been done before. Everything was already done in the 1960s. But the frontier today is maybe the Internet, not music, movies, literature or art.
MowgliX 1 year ago
Oops - in my first post I meant "necessarily" and MORE popular, not less. I see how people jump on grammatical mistakes here on Youtube, so I'm making sure to correct that!
SmartBlonde0 2 years ago
@sweetshaman I agree of course, but I really don't have any reference points because I was born way too late, in 1965. But you're right: partially, culturally at least, this era sucks. I'm not saying the 1960s were perfect, just a whole lot better. And about Edie: she is probably just as big a cultural icon now, in 2010, as in the mid-1960s. Incredible. She continues to amaze me.
MowgliX 1 year ago
@sweetshaman Britney Spears is JUST hotter than this girls ;D
Emporio3x 1 year ago
@sweetshaman I wish i didn't have to agree with you, but I do. One of the reasons this era sucks so bad is that the big four (or three...) record companies OWN everything and control what's on the radio and so on. Also, the women were more beautiful then maybe, although I saw one today that I would want to spend some time with... She had billion-dollar legs and an angelic face, just like Edie.
MowgliX 1 year ago
my god she is beautiful :)
LAKxox89 3 years ago 5
i love her laugh...
teenageyouthbag 3 years ago 2
which film is this
ErinTexas 3 years ago
Poor Little Rich Girl
hello1932443 3 years ago
thats how women did their make up in the 60's!
teenageyouthbag 3 years ago 6
... thanx to her *.*
desertshore 3 years ago 4
she had a beautiful face but, what's up with the eyebrows?
MidnightCatQueen 3 years ago
drawn on w/eyebrow pencil. ("i was VERY heavy with my makeup then" - "Ciao! Manhattan" quote)
actually she pre-dated brooke shields' infamous thick 1970s eyebrows by a decade, which had the entire fashion world abuzz at the time
desertshore 3 years ago
With her white skin and brown eyes, the eye makeup created a chariscuro. This is a term used by painters for a combination of lights and darks placed together so as to intensity the contrast for a dramatic effect. She had studied art seriously, and probably knew about chariscuro. It would have looked weird on some women, but her face looked so innocent she could get away with it.
ZenPapageno 3 years ago 6
GIRLS TODAY WISH THEY COULD COME UP WITH ORIGINAL FASHION IDEAS.....
THERE'S NOTHING NEW.....EVEN LADY GA GA "BITES" OFF OF MADONNA.....SICKENING IF YOU ASK ME.......SAD
newyorkeastside 1 year ago 2
@newyorkeastside everything is new which it gets to the point that were sick of the original . everyone is fighting to be original but it all comes out the same missmatched shite .
ps3sucksassballs 1 year ago
Lou in love idea ... Who wouldn't fall in love with her? I'll bet half the gay men fell in love with her! I think Lou idolized her then discovered her flaws, which didn't fit his concept of her, so he went all the way in the other direction and made her a demon. As he once sang, "Yeah, she looked pretty regal to me, goes to show how wrong you can be." There are other Lou Reed songs that remind you of her. One reason for the tease rumor: being frigid, she kept looking for a good
partner.
ZenPapageno 3 years ago