EDIE SEDGWICK /FACTORY GIRL DANGLE EARRINGS -NEW STYLE

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Faithful recreation of the earrings Edie Sedgwick wore during her Andy Warhol days, recreated by jewelry designer Steve Sasco . THIS IS A SECOND VERSION OF THIS POPULAR STYLE., USING BAR CHAIN AND ADDED LENGTH. A short history of Edie Sedgwick : Among Warhol's stable of "characters" was the thin young society beauty Edie Sedgwick. Famous for closely cropped frosted hair, impossibly short skirts and "shoulder duster" earrings, Sedgwick became a Warhol "superstar" and symbol of the "Youthquake"counterculture. Long past her fame, Sedgwick died of a drug overdose in 1971, but she achieved a posthumous immortality in the 1984 oral history bestseller Edie: American Biography, by George Plimpton and Jean Stein. "I was always fascinated by the 1960s," says Sasco. "I was a child during Edie's heyday, but I made a version of her famous earrings in the 1980s as an homage to her. A short history of jewelry designer Steve Sasco : Steve Sasco, famous for his glitzy disco designs and for producing dramatic costume jewelry for some of the major TV shows and movies of the '80s and '90s, has made a triumphant return to the big screen as jewelry designer for the movie "Factory Girl," which opened around the country on New Years weekend. "Factory Girl" has returned Sasco to his roots, when as a young Providence designer he created and supplied the read more