NEW EDIE SEDGWICK CHANDELIER EARRING FROM VOGUE 1965

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Faithful recreation of the earrings Edie Sedgwick wore during her Andy Warhol days, recreated by jewelry designer Steve Sasco . This earring is from the fashion photo shoot from the pages of Vogue magazine, 1965. It is a s stunning now as it was then. This is a modern version of this earring that is very modern and very light and comfortable to wear. 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 read more

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