One day early that fall of 1964, I was going to visit my grandmother, who was drifting further and further into dementia, and I was wearing a nice sweater and skirt and my Gucci loafers and, as usual, no makeup. The elevator door opened, and out stepped Edie in a black body stocking, high heeled boots, and a little fox-fur vest; not only that, she was wearing false eyelashes and the most enormous earrings I had ever seen, made of peacock feathers. I was so shocked. I remember saying, “Is that the way you want to go around?” Edie just giggled and said she thought it was fun. Those enormous earrings became her trademark, and guess who designed them? Ken Lane. He had been saying for a while that he wanted to make really big, really lightweight costume jewelry, and now all at once he became a hugely successful designer and sought-after member of the jet set. Ken told me he owed it all to Edie wearing his earrings.
Alice Sedgwick Wohl – scholar/translator and author of the book As It Turns Out: Thinking About Edie and Andy (FS&G).
We’re talking American pop icons Edie Sedgwick and Andy Warhol. As Edie’s older sister, Alice gives readers a unique perspective on the Sedgwick family, Edie and her partnership with Andy, and just what the heck her appeal was (and still is).
Both sisters knew jewelry designer Kenneth Jay Lane, who was also a buddy of Warhol’s.
OverDressed for Life 