Edie Sedgwick: New York’s "It Girl" and Andy Warhols Muse | It-Girls Uncovered
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- This is the first video of a series exploring muses behind celebrated artists. I have been so infatuated with Edie Sedgwick for so many years, so this was a lot of fun to make. Thank you for watching!
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Hello! If you’re watching, please forgive the echo effect. Some of my earlier videos have this effect, it was an editing mistake as I often use this effect for projects unrelated to this channel. And because my ear was so used to hearing the echo I didn’t notice! This effect is not on my later videos. ☺️💖
I just love this echo effect in the video, gives an ideal atmosphere I think
It works honestly
I think it is perfect. It is a little haunting.
New subscriber! I actually liked the echo effect. Didn't know it wasn't intentional. It fit well with your narration of Edie's story. May she rest in peace.
The echo is a haunting tribute, only adding to the beautiful tragedy of misunderstood muse.
Edie Sedgwick was an artist in her own right - and a very talented painter and sculptor. She is the person who was behind Andy’s rise as an artist, as she introduced him to all the society matrons who then fell in love with his silk-screen style of portraiture.
Her Father was a celebrated artist as well.
@Catherine Gearhart, behind every successful man there's a woman 😉. I'd like to add to that saying: behind anyone successful, there's support. Someone who believes in them, family and friends.
Edie wasn't just Andrew's muse. She was his living, breathing, ATM and when the money ran out he kicked it and shook it until the last couple dollars fell out and then? He discarded it and got a new muse. Andrew isn't a good artist. He's no Dali or Van Gogh thats for sure. But Edie turned herself into a living piece of art. It usually destroys women when they do that. Norma Jean Baker became a living piece of art as Marilyn Monroe, and it destroyed her as well. Coincidentally, also by barbiturate overdose.
Both beautiful women used. So cruel. And that's why you shouldn't think rich people are happy. Her family sounded awful and abusive. Poor girl
@@AS-wj1du oh yea, anyone who calls their father "Fuzzy" has some deep seated family issues going on. (What the...)
After she passed away, Warhol claimed to not even know Edie 😔
Great observation.
Warhol was a talented artist. Sedgwick was a compelling muse, albeit a young woman with no self discipline or discernible talent beyond her incredible charisma. It's w
hy we're still talking about them 50 years after the fact!
As someone who is in the art industry, artists like Andy Warhol always give me bad vibes so I never cared to dig deep into his relationship with Edie Sedgwick but oh my God... he was awful to her.
Using people then tossing them away. AW’s true talent.
Does a fool like you know who Andy Warhol was?
Isn't edie related to Kevin bacon's wife?
Yes they are related
Yeah unfortunately I've noticed that is a recurring trend in his life and art career...
more like they used him. he gave them his platform. They didnt give him much that he couldnt get from the next freak or beauty. Do you think he is gonna use the same muse for years & years? that would get very tired. For both parties. They both need move on. Sadly without Andy most of them went onto nothing or death. Cause they didnt really have much talent. Like Edie. she was pretty & engaging but thats not a talent.
The parents destroyed these lovely siblings. From the father's abuse and the mother pretending like nothing ever happened. First the brothers then Edie. She was a shining light in a dark world. May she rest in peace 🕊❤
And they tried to say rich people were good parents. Most times they neglect their kids
@@AS-wj1du The physical, mental & sexual abuse edie endured was heartbreaking.
Creepy family for sure. Stein/Plimpton's book is great.
DUDE. No wonder people noticed Andy Warhol. He made sure he became famous, got on television and then refused to speak and wanted ONLY an attractive young woman to speak for him, lol. Also very telling.
I love the way Edie described the importance of everyday advertisement, labels and signage as art.
This video essay describes perfectly what I have been feeling about Edie Sedgwick ever since I first learnt about her as a 12 years old child, 15 years ago. She is the definition of timeless in so many ways.
I'm so happy that she's recieving some recognition in her work. I'm not particularly a fan of Warhol myself, but even many of my friends who admire him are just as upset as I am with her lack of proper dues in her role at the factory. Very respectful ode to the darling that gave the new york scene what they needed at the time: a pair of fresh brown eyes that were uniquely venurable but composed, and filled with good taste
Thank you for taking the time to watch and comment! Yes I believe she was so influential in fashion and styling especially! She has such a unique look that people are still plucking inspiration from to this day ☺️
Was factory girl with sienna about her?
@@AS-wj1du Yes, Factory Girl is about Edie. 🙂
What I unfortunately keep seeing is that Andy Warhol was taking advantage of others to succeed, that is shown with Edie and we have seen it with Basquiat... with the image of Merilyn... etc. And he didn't just take advantage of the image of others, but he was abusive...
You are seeing clearly ! man what a horrible person
And also can be argued that’s what many people don’t understand was largely the point of his work.
Wow didn't that that. Horrible man
When Jennifer Lawrence called herself the first woman to carry an action film I immediately thought of Pam Grier...she was phenomenal.
I agree! There have been other great strong women leads in action films as well. Jennifer has said that she misspoke and that wasn't really what she meant. It doesn't sound like her. Usually she is quite funny and self-deprecating.
@@aksez2u
In real life there are no strong women with guns in hand and killing bad guys.
In real life there are only fearful women who use a weapon solely to defend themselves and nothing else.
Men are always exposed to danger when we are policemen, soldiers, firefighters, astronauts, miners, airplane pilots, etc...
Action movies will always be MEN's things because in real life men are the ones who are always involved in the line of fire (wars, shootings, fires, natural disasters, etc...)
Men by nature are beings of action and women by nature will always be passive beings in absolutely everything.
The current Feminism is just a very funny joke that consists of wanting to masculinize the woman so that she becomes a man (tomboy). 😂
@@capitanfuturo594 TLDR - Just enough to know you are a true pissant. 🤣
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Your brain is so lazy and that's why you don't like to read.
Now I understand why women don't even know where the Mayan pyramids are 🤣
@@capitanfuturo594 seriously, I have no idea why women would want to be police, soldiers or firefighters. Leave that shit to the men and keep being the ones that graduate at the top of your class in high school and go on to college and graduate more than men. In my high school yearbook all top ten GPA spots were girls. There were 900 students in my graduating class. (You kinda feel bad for the boys, like they're being left behind obviously, but you don't need good grades for those jobs you just mentioned so who cares lol) Ladies, PLEASE leave those jobs to the men! You're not strong enough. I say that all the time! If anyone approaches you as a woman to do those jobs, run like the wind the other way to go be a CEO or doctor or lawyer etc. Leave construction to men, mining, painting, hanging sheetrock, chasing down thugs, running into burning buildings...all those over worked underpaid thankless dangerous af jobs. God bless those men lol. Let them be cannon fodder for other wealthier men don't try to get that job ladies. All those hard ass bs jobs that don't pay dick that'll get even the strongest man killed? Yea, let men keep them! 😆 Lol women don't even need men to protect us anymore if we go get our own 45...you'll blow a hole through two men at once! Lol What man can do that for you? Not one. But your gun can. Go get one! Don't be scared! You can walk anywhere you want, wearing whatever you want at night with a 45 in your pocket! I do it all the time. And you just walk different when you know you can kill anyone that tries to fuck with you. You walk....honestly? You walk like a man. Lol and it feels fan fuckin tastic. But anyway, I completely agree.
you should definitely make a video about gia carangi ! i know she wasn’t in film per-se but her “it girl” story is super fascinating!
Her story is tragic and a warning of the pitfalls of fame
The channel @antiheroines has a great video on Gia!! I agree her story is super fascinating
@@mariaconway405 I knew Jean passing when I lived in New York in the 80s she was a party girl
knowing her I do agree that her story is fascinating she was attractive Street kid turned Mega supermodel
She was a supermodel
There’s a slight echo in the recording that makes me think of you recording this in an empty museum, and I like it 🤩
I love Edie; she is one of my style icons. I didn’t even know who she was until I found the movie “Factory Girl” in a discount DVD bin and then I was hooked. I agree that she was an artist in her own right and a very complex and deeply troubled person. I wish I had a time machine so I could go back and be her friend. Maybe I could have helped her at least a little bit 😢
Brava! Brava! Closest and well made documentary. Edie was the embodiment of the 60's the makeup, clothing, all stolen by Twiggy
Thank you for talking about Edie I loved her for years
She sounds so similar to Eugenia Cooney. It’s almost scary close how much they have in common. Down to dealings with Social Repose, this ages Andy Warhol. Creepy I wish more people would realize
I was introduced to Edie by the french singer Alizée. She made a concept album in 2013 about Edie and her life called “Une Enfant Du Sciecle”, it’s pretty good, give it a listen!
This is the best most respected work, imo, I have ever seen ode to her, may she forever Rest In Peace, Sweetheart 💕💗
Wow that is so sweet of you to say, I’m glad you think so! I worked really hard on it, I really adore Edie and I wanted to do her justice 💛
I want Suki Waterhouse to play her in a movie.
SAME AHHH!! Omg I have been saying this for YEARS. My dream for years has been to direct a biopic of Edie starring Suki
@@FinalGirlStudiosYou should do it!!! I never really liked the Sienna Miller film (can't remember the title now). I just subscribed bc I love Edie and this was very well made...you captured her essence in a beautiful and respectful way ❤️
Sienna absolutely NAILED Edie’s character in Factory Girl
Factory Girl was my favorite movie was I was younger
Terrible movie, bad writing but Sienna did a good job with the terrible script she was given
This was hauntingly beautiful. I live in Santa Barbara and majored in fine art in college. I’ve always wondered the real story of Eddie Sedgwick, thank you for brining her to life.
Santa Barbara is the most beautiful place in the United States, to me!
I liked George Plimpton’s description of Edie as a “gamine” waif. Perfect word choice.
Lovely video sweetheart and thank you. Poor Edie. Her father abused her. Then Andy Warhole and Bob Dylan used her. I think Andy a Bob were jealous of her. You cant by class no matter how much money you have. You either have it or dont. She had it, they did not.
Yeah, one or two of her brothers commited s…ide because they were gay and that was a nightmare for people like her father.. “old money” …
Rich family yet no one actually cared about her and her siblings. Only the public image
Bob Dylan didn't use her. There was nothing to use. And how could he be jealous of her? He was one of the biggest stars in the world when he knew her. He had the whole world at his feet. Edie wasn't anywhere in his league.
@Tom Carl trueee. Well not that there was nothing to use 😳
Please.... Bob Dylan had it and more... nothing like that for Warhol. He was a bloodsucker he totally rode on the attractiveness and the draw of others , even a soup can to rise Supposedly Bob Dylan really wanted her to get away from all the drugs Warhol, The Factory freaks She couldn’t
All kids had issues? Take a look at the parents. She had a trust fund but so what? The demons in society who pretend to be better but are the worst
Thank you for handling the memory of beautiful Edie with such respect. Rest gently sweet angel.🕊
And her siblings deaths
Wasn't Evelyn Nesbit the first "it girl" in New York???
Yes I think she was! The title is mostly just to have an eye catching title. Perhaps I should do a video on Evelyn as she was true first “it-girl” ☺️💖
@@FinalGirlStudios you should! I'm completely in support of that idea! 😀
Evelyn was prior to Edie. As I'm sure there was someone prior to Evelyn. As long as New York has existed there's been a woman you COULD call an "It Girl" there. But the first woman to be referred to as an "It Girl" was actress Clara Bow in the 1920's. Clara Bow was the original-and ultimate-“It” girl. Born on July 29, 1905 to a family living in the Brooklyn slums. So the first woman called an "It Girl", even though she was known for her association to Hollywood, was still a New Yorker! 😊 "It" referring to sex, after she starred in the silent film "It".
@@Janellabelle yes! You are absolutely correct on that! I actually knew that too ...grew up watching the old silent and flies ect with my dad back in the day. I never actually saw "it" as I can recall but I knew all abt Clara. I heard she actually passed the title on to Marilyn
Follies. Zeigfeild follies
Brilliant! Thank you for a really, objective, and fascinating portrait of an enigmatic, “sick,”beauty. You have delivered a refreshing and new portrait of an inspirational 60s Muse. Liked and subscribed.
This was interesting! Would love to hear your take on It Girl Clara Bow! Apparently she embodied the madcap Roaring '20s.
I’ve seen her name pop up a few times in the comments and I’m super interested in doing some more research on her! Thank you for watching and for the idea ☺️
Someone used the Warhol video of Edie in combination with the Beck song Ramona, focusing in on her face. That's how I got introduced to how stunning Edie was.
Absolutely loved this video! Really looking forward to keep watching your videos
Thank you for taking the time to watch and comment!!💖☺️
Edie was not a singer or even a great actress, but I believe that given the right creative team and mode for expressing herself, she could have been a big star with her beauty and her charisma. As is often the case, the world did not know what to do with her. The movie Factory girl is not a particularly good movie, but I am fascinated with every little thing about the Warhol era, so it is a guilty pleasure of mine. Thank you so much for making this video!
Girl you rock!!! Thank you for your consistently excellent uploads. Love the content
Thank you so much I appreciate it 😭💖
I love love love this video series, please keep it up! 🩵
This is the 1st video i've seen from you. The introduction is brilliant! 🌟 Thank you for informing us of Plato's advocating of Sappho, the 10th muse. Her own work was equal to those she insipred to create!
Im in the "rabbit hole" now!
Love. True and absolute love. Thank you!
Edie Sedgwick L
Fantastic video. Such a tragic life. Used and abused by everyone who was supposed to love her. Just like so many other beautiful, brilliant women. It saddens me and infuriates me at the same time. Fantastic editing and sound. You are doing great work!
Ah thank you so much for your kind words!
Thank you for this amazing pice of art. You made a great docu
A sad story beautifully told. Thank you
Good job! Great video 🙌🏻🙌🏻
this is very well done🙏i am sobbing💯😭such a heartbreaking story
I can't stop watching this video. It is so beautiful. Your channel is captivating for me.
Her life is like the Lore of a Manic Pixie Dream Girl
Really well done. Thank you. My 8th Great Grandfather, and Edie's 7th, came to America on the same ship. The Truelove.
love this !! thank you 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
Recently found your channel and it is a DREAM!!!
Beautiful documentary 🤍✨
excellent! i love that your videos add depth and nuance to the stories of these women. i would love to see a video on judy garland. i love her and see her as a similar victim of hollywood. also zelda fitzgerald!
My gosh!!! Absolutely love this. Please do make more series of artist muses
Love the echo and all the other interesting so called mistakes - effects. Excellent , simple hand made.
Brilliant work! And well researched.
I liked and subscribed.
Thank you so much 🥰
... WOW, heartbreaking, what a tragic story, thank you for sharing your view of this once brilliant lass ...
Beautiful. Thank you for creating this video! ❤❤
Thank you so much for watching!! I’m so happy you enjoyed it 💛
This was really good. I’m fascinated by Edie. The actress Kyra Sedgwick is related to Edie and I was thinking about her daughter Sosie. I feel like she kinda resembles Edie in some ways, especially when she had dark longer hair.
Great video so many facts ..subscribed right away
I lovvveee your videos. YOU GET IT!
All Tomorrow's Parties by The Velvet Underground is also about Edie❤️
And forgive me if I'm wrong, but I thought Bob Neuwirth was Bod Dylan's manager, not a musician per se.
Absolutely adore how you narrated and presented this video! Happy to subscribe!
I read Femme Fatale was about her as well ❤
Rasputina has a great cover of "All Tomorrow's Parties" (my fave band)
@@blueviolets52 Yes! ☺️
@@victoriadiesattheend.8478 I'm going to have to listen to it. I've never heard of them but it's going to be fun to discover a new band☺️
Excellent video! I know you couldn’t include everything, but a quick mention of The Cults’ “Chiao Edie” seems remiss … (fantastic video too! That I now must watch again) I’m surprised that biopic didn’t mention that much of her “later” life … There’s a biography I’ve always wanted to read but the style it’s written puts me off every time.
When she is playing with her earring and conducting the interview is my favorite part
The thing about Edie ... I´ve see a lot of people put her down ¨she was an addict, skating by on her looks, etc¨ when in reality she was an exceptional artist in her own right with a deeply penetrating mind. You can see a bit of this here. Who is asking, and pondering, the real questions? She is. She is the only one who expresses anything of substance within the clip. And this was not unusual for her. In everything I´ve seen and read about her she looked deeply beneath the surface to ponder the bigger picture. Would LOVE to have heard her thoughts on things had she lived to a ripe old age. Wise beyond her years.... RIP Edie
This little bio-& especially the narration-is brilliantly done. The voice is almost hypnotic & sounds a bit like Winona Ryder (sp?). Thank-you for putting it together.♥️💕
Wow what a compliment! I love Winona, thank you 🥰💖
Brilliant documentary
Inspiration for Dylans "Like a Rolling Stone. Just Like A Woman, Leopard Skin Pillbox Hat"
Rolling Stone is NOT about Edie! Damm, it was written earlier than the brief encounter of Dylan/Edie.
Well Done !!!
Thank you for taking the time to watch and comment! I’m glad you enjoyed ☺️
Ephemera as high art. That was Andy. Edie was sure a beauty. I enjoyed this stab from the past thoroughly. I think I'll subscribe, Final Girl.
I love this dedication. The song by the cult ciao baby is about her...
I really like this video. Thank you.
This was really, really well done! Thank you
Obsessed with your channel and takes
love all that is andy warhol ....and Edie is so fascinating
Wonderful piece. Thank you for creating and sharing this well executed composition of material that elevates the inspiring talents of the muse as being a foundational necessity critical to artistic work. The inspirational qualities and talents of a muse are often underestimated or overlooked as superficial circumstance, but your video hones in and extracts the importance of the symbiotic relationship between muse contribution and artistic output.
Very interesting video. I watched the movie made about her a few years ago. So sad she was used and abused and virtually tossed aside, she deserved better than that. I’m looking forward to watching your other videos. Plus you have a very beautiful voice which makes it even better to listen too.
Love this channel
this was wonderful. rip edie, what a misunderstood soul. would you make one on twiggy?
Fantastic work, I love her 🖤🖤
Thank you so much for taking the time to watch and comment💛 I love Edie so much too ☺️ xx
This was really well done. I am new to your channel and just subscribed.
Thank you! Also I love your profile picture
Civil woman and the inspiration for art came through the cooperation of women throughout history. Don't forget about that
Truman Capote’s quote.. terrifyingly true
WHY doesn’t this channel have more subscribers
Well done!
♥️ Subscribed and obsessed. Edie Sedgwick is related to actress, Kyra Sedgwick, they are cousins. Both incredibly talented and beautiful x
She’s been someone I look up to for years. If I could have dinner with anyone dead or alive, she’s my top choice. I genuinely began to cry as I watched this. She deserved so much better. This is a gorgeous video, and I just subscribe. Absolutely love your style and content ❤️
Thank you for taking the time to watch and comment! I’ve adored her for years as well, and I definitely agree having dinner with her would be such a lovely experience, she seemed like such a vibrant person to be around
Me too her interviews and the way she talks is just beautiful. She was truly a fantastical beautiful innocent soul stuck in a world that kept hurting her. I wish more people would remember her for her art, dancing and sweet soul and look past her addiction because it was the smallest part of what made up her fascinating personality.
I really enjoy your videos, they are of great quality and are so well-researched! just one thought on the term muse. of course, most people think of Edie Sedgwick that way and she's a very fitting example. however, I wouldn't think of Jane Birkin or Anna Karina as muses or "pretty faces" first and foremost. I only had very little knowledge about them before I saw your videos, but I knew they were actresses and icons in their own right and didn't associate them with any men. they are examples of women making the art, even though they might have inspired the men who were involved. calling them muses seems a bit reductive to me. this is only a minor technicality though since you've done a great job of showcasing their respective complexities.
I started off just as you did. Read Edie's biography, became obsessed, got interested in Warhol and everyone else around him and twenty years later still trying to figure out who "Sugerplum Fairy" from Lou Reed's Walk On The Wild Side is.
He was either an ex to Harvey Milk or one of the actors in Warhol's My Hustler or maybe just an amalgamation of insignificant, great gay dancers in Lou Reed's mind.
I think Sugerplum Fairy might just be me.
Which is fine.
Edited (Edied ?): the guy triggering behind the camera when shooting "Beauty #2", Chuck Wein, was her friend/agent from Cambridge who followed her from Cambridge to NYC.
It's just...Edie wasn't the most wholesome role model you could "choose" as a 17-year old, but I didn't have a choice.
She's been with me every step since.
And, at 51, I don't regret a second of it.
100% there with you. 👏👍
Speaking of interesting Edie's~ I would love to hear your take on Grey Gardens.
Prince stole the “only speaking through my hot girlie” act from Warhol 😂
Today Commemorates Edie's 80th Birthday
Omg, I love her! Since I saw just the trailer for “Factory Girl”, I became obsessed. I read a lot about her, I know it’s never 100% real story.
It’s really sad. Many of these “old money” heirs got themselves in a trouble but their families rather cut then off than actually help them…
Sienna(&Guy- he played Andy) was amazing. I know that it’s not like Golden Globes/Academy Awards movie but still…
Andy Warhol, popart, Edie, “IT” girl… I love ‘60s.
factory girl was such a good movie but made me fskw about Andy not gonna lie.
Rich people are the worst monsters. It's about perception. They're usually demons and treat their kids awfully too
Which editor do you use? ; youre a genious 🔥🔥🔥
Warhol & his crew were using Edie. Edie was paying ALL the bills & tabs until she was broke then Warhol was done
absolutely tragic... her story really touched me 😪 wish I could hug her
i have seen the movie about edie sedgwick in the theater. i have never heard of her before because she was before my time, but the movie was sad.
Mix in trauma, old money, good looks, style and a cocktail of drugs with alcohol = that seems to create the most beautifully damaged people.❤She had such a tragic life sprinkled with a few bright moments.
Irony is why you paint the soup can. And because even little tiny things well made can be beautifully designed and are really every day/pop art.
You are so underrated
He was infatuated with himself … men who fall in love with women who look like themselves bc that’s where all their admiration is in ones self
I've loved the tragedy and glamour of Edie for so long. Your video is poignant and articulate. You got yourself a new subscriber ❤️✌️
Welcome!! Thanks for taking the time to watch and comment 💖☺️
So sad everything she went through, RIP.
Never heard of this chick in my life until i was reading about the song like a rolling stone so after seeing what she looked like i had to know who she was...she was goddamn beautiful! I can see why bob dylan was in love with her
I think Edie was the progenitor of the Paris' & Kims of the world ❤
I just learned a lot of things I have never heard about Edie. Her story really is sad.
Love it but sounds like you’re talking inside a tunnel