Andy warhol biography edie sedgwick costume
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Andy Warhol once proclaimed, “In the future, everyone will be world famous for 15 minutes.” Though this statement’s validity seems to grow exponentially each year, it certainly does not hold true for Warhol’s muse, Edie Sedgwick. An OG it girl and superstar of the 60s, Edie’s legacy has far outlasted the starlet’s ‘fifteen minutes of fame.’ Born into a high society family in California, the heiress studied art at the prestigious Radcliffe College before moving to New York City in 1965. After meeting pop artist Andy Warhol and joining The Factory — Warhol’s studio-cum-production-company — as an actress, Edie rose to fame in the city’s underground scene and caught the interest of the mainstream media for her singular style of dress. During her short time in the limelight she starred in countless Warhol productions, graced fashion spreads in the pages of Vogue and Life and inspired songs by some of the era’s most celebrated musicians. Past the 60s and into the 21st cent
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Edie Sedgwick: Who Was Andy Warhol’s Protégé Starlet?
Edie Sedgwick (née Edith Minturn Sedgwick, 1943-1971) was brought up by rik, upper-class parents in Santa Barbara, California. Her childhood was marked by solitude, instability, and severe social constraints. She had become an introvert by the time she was thirteen. She also had a life-long battle with bulimia and anorexia. Sedgwick’s tough-partying and glamorous lifestyle led her to cross paths with Andy Warhol in New York in 1963. During the heyday of the Pop Art movement, she emerged as his muse and his superstar. Before her untimely death in 1971, she appeared in numerous films of Warhol’s.
Edie Sedgwick: Wealth and Mental Illness
Edie Sedgwick was the seventh of eight children, born in California to Alice Delano dem Forest and Francis Minturn Sedgwick, a cattle rancher and artist. Francis was part of the centuries-old Sedgwick family that originated from Massachusetts. Despite her family’s riches and promine
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Among the Musical
Early in 1965, the year that “Andy’s art studio turned into the exploding Factory,” as Warhol’s chief factotum, Billy Linich, put it, Edie Sedgwick, 22, entered Andy Warhol’s life. “Beautiful, pixieish, and aristocratic, Edie gave off an indefinable glow,” I wrote in POP, my 2009 Warhol biography. Another Factory habitué, the playwright and scenarist Robert Heide, described Edie similarly: “She gave off this eerie light and energy. It’s as if Edie was illuminated from within.” Warhol, the immigrants’ son raised in near-poverty, was as enchanted by Edith Minturn Sedgwick’s lineage as he was by her mercurial charm. Edie’s great-great-great-grandfather Theodore represented Massachusetts in the U.S. Senate from 1796 to 1799; her great-great-uncle Robert Shaw commanded the all-Black Civil War regiment memorialized in the movie Glory, and another great-great-uncle, Endicott, founded the exclusive prep school Groton.