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Edie: Warhol’s Wayward Waif Edie Sedgwick went from a blue blood beauty to a bleach-blond/silver Warhol superstar when she moved to Manhattan, lived in the Chelsea Hotel and became Warhol’s muse in-residence at his silverpainted Factory. A favorite of Vogue’s Diana Vreeland, Sedgwick’s signature style of long dangling earrings, striped sailor shirts and tights made her an instant fashion icon invited to every party in town. She dated Bob Dylan who wrote “Just Like a Woman” about her. But Sedgwick’s taste for hard drugs (heroin, speed, cocaine) eventually led to her demise. After ditching New York (insiders say Warhol grew tired of her) for California, Sedgwick married in 1971 but sadly died from an overdose of barbiturates that same year. Despite her short life (she was 28 when she OD-ed), Sedgwick’s style lives on in George Plimpton’s verbal history Edie.
On set at one of his films, Andy Warhol sits next to Edie Sedgwick and lights her cigarette, c. 1965 SEPTEMBER 2011 · AVENUE MAGAZINE | 67