It's All About Edie Today

Who can possibly keep up with the twists and turns of the much ballyhooed Factory Girl.

First, Sienna Miller was being hyped as an Oscar contender for her role as Edie Sedgwick.  A week later, she was being called back to reshoot several scenes.  Finally, a trailer has been released.  The goal is to release the movie by the end of the year so it can be in contention for an Oscar. (Yeah, right!)

From the looks of this list of brand extensions, Edie could end up with more money that Andy Warhol:
•Edie Factory Girl by photographer Nat Finkelstein and writer David Dalton (VH1, $29.95, in stores). Bio/photo book by two who were part of the scene.
•In recent months, Teen Vogue and Seventeen have included articles on how to create the Edie look.
•Delias.com is selling an Edie Dress and a Factory Girl tote bag.
•Urban Outfitters carries a Ciao! Manhattan T-shirt, tunic, tote bag and notepad with her image. (I must confess, I bought the T-shirt.)
•MAC and Smashbox Cosmetics created lines this year inspired by her mod look.
•Fashion Wire Daily recently reported designer Karl Lagerfeld's upcoming collection has "echoes" of Sedgwick's style with models sporting heavy eyeliner and fringed straight blond hair.
•Kung Fu Nation has been selling out of its Edie T-shirts sold at KungFuNation.com, Urban Outfitters and Hot Topic.
•In January, In My Blood: Six Generations of Madness and Desire in an American Family by cousin John Sedgwick (uncle of actress Kyra Sedgwick) will be published by HarperCollins. It chronicles, in part, Edie's rapid rise to fame, heroin addiction and death by overdose.
•Edie is an online phenom. "A lot of kids are finding her, and a lot of people are creating online communities," says Ben Allgood, 22, creative director for Edienation.com and myspace.com/edieonfire. (There are several good Edie sites on myspace - http://www.myspace.com/ediesedgwick65 

Well, since Edie has become a cash cow we think she should be schilling for our friends.  We're sure she'd totally be into these Shuga Buds -- serious bling for ipod fans.  In the photo at left Edie enjoys listening to Dylan's "Blonde on Blonde" with her stereo quality personal earphones studded with Swarovski crystals. (Full disclosure -- Shuga Buds is owned by a friend.)

Comments

[Silverhairspray]

I wanted to share this post from www.edienation.com, because I think its relates to all this!

"It must be real"
Edie was a filmmaker, a collaborator and artist with other underground and experimental filmmakers at a time when making a non-Hollywood film was almost a revolutionary act. Like you she was young at a time when a wave of technological advancements­ new video camera, audio recorders and film cameras­ were putting power in the hands of the people to tell their own stories. This is a pursuit she believed in fiercely. She said often to fellow adventurers in her filmmaking pursuits, "It must be real, if it isn't real, there is no movie." On the eve of the release of a HIGHLY fictionalized Hollywood account of Edie's life, we hope you will join us in our Internet and video experiment of making real screen tests of real people. WE know you can tell the difference, as she would have wanted, between what is real and what is not.

-Melissa Painter

"I do love Alice in Wonderland though. That's something I think I could do very well. Don't you think we ought to do an A.W.? A.W.'s Alice in Wonderland? Andy Warhol's Alice in Wonderland? A.W. stands for a lot of things, I understand. It, uh, it would make a fantastic film. So I wanted somebody to write the script for it, in a modern sense. Think it would be
the most marvelous movie in the world. If it could be done. Don't you think? Really I don't think they've done one since they did a Walt Disney one- which isn't really doing it. In a sense it is, but not in the way it really
should be done. What's needed right now is a real scene. I mean not just cartoon characters but the actual character of people because there's so many fantastic people that you might as well use the people."

­-EDIE 1965

"To be an underground filmmaker one felt that you were engaged in forbidden activity, which of course lead us to Andy and 47th St and the factory because Andy was hosting this whole feeling of rebellion in image where we could all participate in doing things that were ridiculous and absurd and so to get a bunch of people who all feel that the sky's the limit to start
being able to do crazy ridiculous image with Andy."

[John, what did it feel like to be in a movie that Warhol directed?] Well, it felt like you were talking your pants of. It was embarrassing. You wondered what were you doing? Why are you doing this? And yet at the same time you knew. You didn't know then, but to think about it now, I mean imagine you are there and there's a hundred million dollars worth of art lying around on the floor, and these people fooling around with cameras. Andy, and I'm there with him doing the same thing, and there's Edie, and
we're all there doing this. And so on the one and there's the rebellion, because you know you're not supposed to, and on the other hand you know that its really really important, and yet its just going to disappear. So that was
a peculiar feeling.

-John Palmer