Alice Sedgwick Wohl didn’t think much of her sister Edie Sedgwick. She’s an incandescent Warhol superstar, a pop art icon who set 1960s New York on fire with her gummy beauty, silvery mane, and her reckless extravagance.
“Oh, I thought she couldn’t do it,” Wall told the Post.
While Edie sprinted across Manhattan in her signature black tights and chandelier earrings and spent her $80,000 inheritance in six months, Wall, who is 12 years her senior, has been dealing with a newborn baby and has been in the last 10 months. I was grieving for my two brothers who died in each other.
By comparison, Eddie looked like a “silly and spoiled child,” recalled Wall, now 91. and say the same.Edie: American biography, published in 1982. ) “I worked in East Her Harlem. I was very upset and worried about the civil rights movement, and the Vietnam War was looming. …I didn’t get the point.” she added. “She didn’t understand who she was or what she stood for.”
Then, in 2017, 46 years after Edie died of a drug overdose at the age of 28, Wall stumbled upon a 1966 Andy Warhol film.outer space and inner spaceIn an experimental short, an expressive, wide-eyed Edie reacts to footage of herself playing on a TV screen behind her. Wohl was riveted.
“When I looked at her, I saw what she had, because Warhol made it perfectly clear how alive and vibrant and charming she was. “I was fascinated by them both.”
Now she wants to “set the record straight.” her new bookAfter all: think about Edie and Andy(Farrar, Straus, Giroux, out now) reimagines Edie’s life and partnership with artist Andy Warhol.
“I realized that what I said publicly was not only wrong, it was ridiculous,” Wall said.
“Me [now] You can see how important she is and how she continues to be very important to this society. “
Eddie’s problems began long before she hooked up with Warhol and his amphetamine-fueled scene in the factory. , had an abortion, crashed his father’s car, lost two brothers (Bobby to a motorcycle accident and Minty to suicide), and endured manipulation. of “Fuzzy”, her cruel and narcissistic father.
“If Eddie was doomed, I think it’s because of that. [our father] She declared she had a mental illness, [had her] Wall said after she walked in on him having sex with his neighbor’s wife. “That’s the tragedy.”
Edith “Minturn” Sedgwick was born in Santa Barbara, California in 1943, the seventh of eight children. Posed for social painter John Singer SargentBut Eddie’s father “Fuzzy” and his long-suffering wife Alice decided to abandon the East Coast and raise their chicks on a series of California ranches.
There “Fuzzy” started herding and bullying his family. Her eldest daughter Wall said she named her ‘Saucy’ because she said she resembled a ‘sausage’. He called his son Minty “an old woman and a wimp”, regularly cheated on his wife, and, according to Eddie, placed her and her sister Sookie “chest-baring on a pillar adjacent to the entrance to the driveway in a sphinx.” ” (Eddie also told a friend that he endured his sexual advances from the age of 7.)
“He can be really cruel,” Wall, the oldest, told the Post. “But he wasn’t cruel to Eddie in that way. [he was with the other children]Is it because Edie with black hair and saucer eyes was beautiful?
“I don’t remember her doing cattle work,” Wall added. “She was different from us from the moment she was born. She was the most beautiful woman ever and she was very assertive…our parents did whatever she wanted.” , spoiled her.”
Eddie, along with his sixth child, Kate, and youngest child, Suki, had little contact with the outside world. (Wall and her next four children actually attended school and spent time with families on the East Coast.) They lived in separate cottages on the ranch with tutors and attended school on the property. I was there. Edie was in the saddle at her 14 months. Her favorite thing to do was run bareback through storms at night.
“Eddie was like a wild child,” recalls Wall. “She wasn’t really interested in reading. She had very little education. …She was a great athlete, beautiful [horseback] She loved driving my dad’s car fast. ”
In her book she writes:
After failing boarding school twice and being admitted twice to a psychiatric hospital for bulimia, Eddie arrived in Cambridge, Massachusetts (where nearly all of her siblings had gone to school) in 1963 and began carving. I learned She met the sophisticated, mostly gay Harvard crowd, and a year later she moved with them to New York City, where she was like a wild creature unleashed in this dazzling city. was. Her extravagant shopping, risky driving (parking her Mercedes at a bus stop, sprinting through lights and sprinting over acid curbs) and her daring fashion sense (just wearing fur over tights and a leotard). By the time Warhol met her in 1965, she was already a legend.
“She appeared in gossip columns every day, was so famous, so inspiring and thought to be amazing, that Bob Dylan called her out of the blue. [to ask her on a date]said Wall. “It was Edie. She had nothing to do with Warhol. Just being around her was really inspiring and thrilling.”
But Warhol saw something else in Eddie: a creative partner who could enhance his glamorous quotient and draw him into the film. ” debuted as. Warhol was gay and he was more like a BFF. At the opening of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, both had their silver hair sprayed. She soon appeared in his film as well.
Edie was electric on screen and didn’t need a script. This was perfect for Warhol. He liked to turn on his camera and walk away. He filmed her doing her makeup in “Poor Little Rich Girl,” had a bed fight with a pretty boy in “Beauty #2,” and just sat around her smoking in “Vinyl.” . For some reason she was always charming.
“I don’t think Eddie even knew what a movie was,” says Wall, adding that the kids didn’t go to the movies while living on the ranch. I think she was just being herself when she made
Edie and Andy’s whirlwind romance lasted barely a year. By the end of 1966, their relationship had deteriorated. Eddie had started dating Dylan and his crew, but Dylan said he was wasting her time on Warhol’s underground movies when she could be a big Hollywood star. She accused Warhol of mocking her and making her look stupid in his films.
彼女はウォーホルから逃れましたが、ハリウッドでのキャリアは実現しませんでした。 その時までに、彼女は薬を飲みすぎていたので、通常は無口な両親が介入しなければならず、彼女をカリフォルニアに戻し、そこの病院に送りました. ウォーホル — 彼女の裏切りによって傷ついたが、容赦なく前向きだった — は彼女から距離を置き、他のスーパースターを昇進させた (しかしどれもそれほど明るくは見えなかった)。 1971 年、彼女は入院患者のマイケル ポストと結婚しましたが、わずか 4 か月後に 28 歳でバルビツール酸の過剰摂取により死亡しました。
それでも、彼女のイメージは持続します。 エディの伝記、ドキュメンタリー、賛辞、そしてシエナ・ミラー主演の(非常に悪い)伝記映画が数多くあります。 彼女の死後、彼女はファッション デザイナー (ジョン ガリアーノやアナ スイなど) やアーティストに影響を与えてきました。 彼女がウォーホルと一緒に作った映画は、今日のリアリティ ショーや Instagram のリールを予測していました。 彼女はプロトインフルエンサーであり、私たちは彼女とウォーホルが作った世界に今も住んでいます.
「他の人々は過去に生きていましたが、彼らは未来に生きていました」とウォールは言いました。 「フランス革命の後、ロマンティックな精神が突然台頭し、人々が感情的な生活を送り、ワイルドになり、山の風景と劇的な経験と性的解放を求めたときに何が起こったのかを考えます. [The 1960s] It was such a moment. … After Eddie and Andy, society had changed and society was ready for it.