November 28, 2006
Factory Girl
The life of socialite and legendary muse, Edie Sedgwick, comes to the big screen when Factory Girl is released next month (assuming the film finishes reshooting some scenes). Sedgwick inspired Andy Warhol and a slew of other artists, including Bob Dylan.
Nico thought that Dylan might have been referring to Edie in the song, Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat, which was included on the album. Some claimed that the phrase “your debutante” referred to Edie on the track, Stuck Inside of Mobile With the Memphis Blues Again. It was also rumored that Just Like a Woman was about Edie. The non-Warhol film that Edie made after she left the Factory, Ciao Manhattan, had Just Like a Woman as part of its soundtrack. Some Dylan biographers, however, think that the song was probably about Dylan’s relationship with Joan Baez.
Unsurprisingly, Sedgwick’s influence can be found across t-shirts, tote bags, books, websites and films 35 years after she died of a drug overdose.
Yesterday, the Village Voice tagged Jackson Pollis an “It” boy in the same vein as “It” girl, Edie Sedgwick. Though Pollis has a “LiveJournal fan site, which boasts 211 members,” comparisons to Sedgwick and Warhol’s Factory entourage are hasty. Who doesn’t have a livejournal fan club these days?


November 28th, 2006 at 8:22 am
can’t believe how close edie sedgwick and sienna miller look
November 29th, 2006 at 11:34 am
I like the the new handsome Andy Warhol.