Factory Girl
Legend has it that Edie Sedgwick inspired at least two great songs on Bob Dylan's seminal 1966 album, Blonde on Blonde: 'Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat' and 'Just Like a Woman'. (Some suggest she was the subject of 'Like a Rolling Stone' too, but the dates don't seem to fit even if the lyrics do.) With her Charlie Chaplin eyebrows, lopsided earrings and her penchant for wearing leotards outside ballet class, Edie briefly became a fashion icon just as art was becoming fashionable. The daughter of...
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