For so long, Edie Sedgwick has simply been just an image, a mood-board-ready evocation of a different era. Who actually was she? In her new memoir, Edie’s sister Alice Sedgwick Wohl tries to find answers
Her cropped haircut and panda eyes led a revolution in style and captured the attention of a fraught era in American history. But for so long she has simply been just an image, a mood-board-ready evocation of a different era. Who actually was Edie Sedgwick?, Edie’s older sister, has recently started asking herself that very question. To her, Edie was just her little sister, not this great icon of an era, someone who has inspired countless books and films.
When she was 19 my parents were going to send her to Vienna to an aristocratic family to get ‘finished’ so to speak, but because she still had bulimia they took her back to America and then she went to two mental hospitals. Eventually, my parents sent her to Cambridge, Massachusetts. She’d never been away, she’d never been on her own, she had no idea of the world, no education, and suddenly, she was out there.
But Warhol, he was also a kind of wild child, because he grew up so very, very poor and the people around him, many of them didn’t speak English. The language they spoke was Ruthenian, a dead language. Then as a child he got St Vitus dance and his mother gave him movie magazines. He began cutting out images and sending away for pictures and that’s how he became image conscious. Edie wasn’t conscious, but he was.
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