Edie Sedgwick Bashny.Net

Perhaps if she had lived in our time, it would have flashed with Paris and Lindsay. Style icon of style in the 60s, she dedicated the song Bob Dylan, shot all his films, artist and filmmaker Andy Warhol.

She was the idol of all the fashionable women in New York.

She died at 28 of a drug overdose.







Eddie was born into a wealthy family with aristocratic roots in Santa Barbara in April 1943.





While her father is strongly recommended to have children because of mental health problems, Eddie was the seventh child of eight.



To his 19 years it fell into a psychiatric hospital with anorexia, and the end of the stay in the hospital managed to have an abortion.





At 21, Eddie moved from California to New York, where he cheerfully spent time zakinuvshis tablets Future Style Icon cut through on his Mercedes on the streets of New York.











In 1965, Eddie gets the famous "Factory" pop art artist Andy Warhol.





Between them once there is attraction, Eddie becomes the muse of the Czech intellectual artist (though many do not share the enthusiasm about his creations, one of the "non-separating" true author), and he takes Man in all his films, even those where women's roles are not It assumed. I mean the film adaptation of "A Clockwork Orange».



It is believed that while all the "Factory" existed on the young heiress Sedgwick money.



Although art-house films of Warhol did not have a commercial benefit, the director was a famous character of New York, which was reflected in the popularity of Eddie: fashion editors of major publications vied with each other to write about it and invite the shooting.











Sedgwick became famous for his peculiar style: excessive thinness, massive earrings to his shoulders, bright-up eyes and painted in white short hair.







Thousands of young fashionistas copied the style of Eddie, considering it his idol. Edie herself at that time was lost in the "Factory" for days and denser friends with banned substances.



In 1966, Eddie meets another beautiful man - Bob Dylan.



He writes in her honor a few songs is tied novel. At the request of Bob Eddie leaves the "Factory", quarreled with Warhol.

But Dylan relations broken off when it became known that he had a secret from Edie married another.



For a while Sedgwick met another Bob Dylan, Bob Neuwirth, but he left her, tired of fighting with drug addiction girl.

Since the life of Edie quickly and rolled right into the abyss. The money was wasted, she sold the inherited property to buy drugs, slept with anyone for heroin came to the "Factory" to Warhol, asking that money.



Trendsetter New York style became a regular at rehabilitation clinics, where it is often transported "to rest».





In one of such "journeys" Eddie met a fellow sufferer, whom she married in 1971.



A couple of months after the wedding, Eddie went to a party, came home, drank a prescription sleeping pills and fell asleep.



In the morning, Edie Sedgwick had not opened her eyes.



Doctors diagnosed with an overdose of barbiturates and ethanol poisoning.











Based on the biography of Eddie in 2006 for the film "Factory Girl, or how I seduced Andy Warhol," in which she performed the role of Sedgwick Sienna Miller.









About Edie said: "From it comes a special light, she breathes in those around her life." Rather, it was, in fact, this girl without much accomplishment could make to talk about himself half a century later. I doubt that in 50 years someone will come to mind to write about Lindsay Lohan.

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