If You Want Your Kid To Be Crazy and Cool, Name Her Edie

I watched Factory Girl recently, and was actually pretty moved by it, despite it being written off as a piece of shit by most. I think Sienna Miller is a really underrated actress who has never really gotten a chance to shine as she keeps getting bit parts as the slutty girl, or is overshadowed by Jude Law. Pffffft, Jude Law! What have YOU done lately?

Sienna was the perfect mix of ballsy, enchanting and vulnerable in her role as Edie Sedgwick, the original It Girl, the first to bleach the shit out of her hair, put on a tonne of eye makeup and scary eyebrows and run around in little black tights. For those of you who haven't been introduced to Ms Sedgwick, here she is:



Bitch was cool. And super cute. Unfortunately, she was also fucked up on speed and pills and ultimately, nutty.



^^This moving picture hurts my brain and mesmerises me all at once.



She was a muse of Andy Warhol, a crazy kid who inspires waif-like little bitches to this day. She was also a first cousin of Kyra Sedgwick, the wife of Kevin Bacon. SEE, there are six degrees of Kevin Bacon. Everyone is linked to that fucker.

Edie Sedgwick died of a drug overdose in November 1971. She was 28. Some say the Bob Dylan song "Just Like A Woman" is an ode to Edie, the addict who was ultimately, a lost little girl.



On the other end of the Edie scale is Edie Bouvier Beale; another socialite from old money who went off the rails and struck fear in fashion's heart. In Grey Gardens, the doco about her and her mother (also named Edie, for christsake) rotting crazily away in their dilapidated mansion of the same name, Edie swans around in turbans, furs and upside down skirts, posing and singing weird little ditties and jawing about her failed youth.



She's awesome. And yes, fucking nutty, buddy. With a bunch of cats.



An ex-beauty queen, she was exceptionally chic as a kid.



And she was hot! Look at her rockin that giant hat!



They even made an Edie Blyth doll, with her trademark fur and headscarf.


Edie died alone in 2002. It was five days before they found her. Her life was tragic, but the thing most people remember the most about Grey Gardens is her endless exuberance, despite the house falling down around her. Bitch knew how to wave that flag and MARCH, motherfucker.



To the Edies, I take my hat off to you. Broken rich girls with heartbreaking stories whose incredibly individual, lovingly mental senses of style will echo through the fashion world forever. Never will a turban or tights be worn without your crazy hearts in mind.

xx

PS Let's not forget Edie from Pink Flamingos. Her passion for eggs and gap-toothed creepy woman-child-ness is second to NONE.