"You have to put up with the risk of being misunderstood if you are going to try to communicate. You have to put up with people projecting their own ideas, attitudes, misunderstanding you. But it's worth being a public fool if that's all you can be in order to communicate yourself." - Edie Sedgwick
She wore an elegant mask of dark eyeliner and chopped,
bleached locks. She wore leotards and mod dresses. She was different, and she
was lost. Edie was seen through the eyes of the camera as a fashion icon, but
when the film developed all she saw was a stranger.
Edie represents something in all of us. We all like to watch train wrecks. One thousand cars pass a
billboard advertising coca-cola and five people look, one thousand cars pass a
three-car pile-up, one thousand people look. Edie was a spectacular train
wreck. She was one of the mad ones whose soul was lit on fire and she burned
until there was nothing left.
Through the wafting curtain inside the window of her Chelsea
Hotel room, Edie Sedgwick was fearless. She made it ok for the rest of us to be
train wrecks too if it meant finding other lost souls along the way. And in the
end that’s all we can really hope for.
