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  1. alisa replied to seshiru's post in a topic in Female Fashion Models
    scanned by Mirik and other TFS members
  2. alisa replied to Nath's post in a topic in Female Fashion Models
    yes it is to early, imo... but she's an idiot... new for japanese brand moussy from TFS
  3. alisa replied to alisa's post in a topic in General Discussion
    posted by tito on tfs
  4. alisa replied to Nath's post in a topic in Female Fashion Models
    tfs.
  5. alisa replied to Capt Snow's post in a topic in Ana Beatriz Barros
    3rd Annual Tribeca Film Festival anabeatrizbarrosfan
  6. alisa replied to Capt Snow's post in a topic in Ana Beatriz Barros
    anabeatrizbarrosfan.com Backstage at Victoria's Secret 11th Annual Fashion show
  7. alisa replied to Capt Snow's post in a topic in Ana Beatriz Barros
  8. alisa replied to Capt Snow's post in a topic in Ana Beatriz Barros
    Backstage at Animale F/W 2008: Backstage At Animale anabetrizbarrosfan.com
  9. alisa replied to tudorhistoryguy's post in a topic in Female Fashion Models
    EDIE SEDGWICK (1943-1971) to JAN. 1965: ANDY MEETS EDIE Edie Sedgwick (1966) (photo: Billy Name) Andy Warhol was often blamed for Edie Sedgwick's descent into drug addiction and mental illness. However, before meeting Warhol, Edie had been in mental hospitals twice and came from a family with a history of mental illness. She was only close to Warhol for about a year, from approximately March 1965 to February 1966. Another fallacy was that Warhol ditched Edie after using her up whereas the truth was that it was Edie's decision to leave the Factory, lured by promises of stardom by Bob Dylan and his manager, leaving Andy feeling slightly betrayed. HER PARENTS Edie Sedgwick's father was Francis Minturn Sedgwick (1904-1967), a Santa Barbara rancher who had three nervous breakdowns prior to his marriage in 1929 to Edie's mother Alice Delano De Forest. Before the marriage, Alice's father visited Francis Sedgwick's doctors at the Austen Riggs Center in Stockbridge Massachusetts, where he was recovering from a phase of manic-depressive psychosis. Alice's father was advised by Francis's doctor at the psychiatric clinic that Francis and Alice should not have any children. (EDIE49) They eventually had a total of 8 children: Alice (Saucie) in 1931, Robert Minturn (Bobby) in 1933, Pamela in 1935, Francis Minturn (Minty) in 1938, Jonathan in 1939, Katharine (Kate) in 1941, Edith Minturn (Edie) in 1943, and Susanna (Suky) in 1945. HER BACKGROUND Edie Sedgwick's family ancestry originated from Stockbridge, Massachusetts where Edie's great-great-great grandfather had moved after the Revolution. Judge Theodore Sedgwick (1746-1813) had been Speaker of the House of Representatives in the time of Alexander Hamilton and George Washington and had also been the Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts. His wife, Pamela Dwight (1753-1807) had gone insane "halfway through her life." (EDIE3) Stockbridge had closer ties to New York than Boston, with many of her family ancestors pursuing careers in New York after being educated at Harvard. After their marriage, Edie's parents, Francis and Alice, lived in Cambridge while Francis took classes at the Harvard Business School. Because of his "asthma attacks and other nervous symptoms" his doctors "advised him to develop his artistic side." (EDIE50) They moved to Long Island, spending their summers in a house in Santa Barbara that they had bought on their honeymoon. They eventually moved to a 50 acre fruit ranch in Goleta in 1943. Edie was born at the Cottage Hospital in Santa Barbara on April 20, 1943. During the war, they moved to a larger ranch, Corral de Quati, in the Santa Ynez Valley with money inherited from Edie's maternal grandfather, Henry Wheeler De Forest. Although he had lost much of his fortune in the Wall Street crash, half of the remaining money (several million dollars) went to Edie's mother. (EDIE62) THE RANCH Although land rich (3,000 acres), "there was a feeling at this stage of being pinched for money, of cutting corners", according to Edie's sister Saucie. "We children were dressed in hand-me-downs from our Eastern cousins, and we got very little for Christmas or birthdays." (EDIE62) Oil was discovered on the ranch in the early fifties and approximately seventeen wells were constructed to take advantage of it. With the additional money, the family was able to move to a new 6,000 acre ranch about six miles from Corral de Quati in July 1952. Edie's sister, Suky, described the new ranch, Rancho La Laguna de San Francisco, as "gloriously beautiful" (EDIE78) The Sedgwicks lived in their own world, and even had their own school constructed on their property. The children were not allowed to go to public school. (EDIE70) Edie and her sister, Suky, were taken to a woman doctor in the Santa Ynez Valley for daily vitamin B shots. (EDIE79) MINTY Edie's brother Minty (Francis Minturn) was an alcoholic at the age of fifteen (EDIE83). Later, in the the early sixties, he ended up at Silver Hill psychiatric hospital, attending AA meetings when he was out. (EDIE102), In October 1963 he was committed to Bellevue after being found in Central Park standing on a statue making a speech to a non-existent audience. From Bellevue he went to Manhattan State Hospital. He then returned to Silver Hill and was found dead in his room in early 1964. (EDIE135-6) He had hung himself the day before his twenty-sixth birthday. The night before committing suicide, he rang Edie and, according to one of her friends at the time, Minty told Edie that "she was the only Sedgwick he could ever hope for." (EDIE139/140) BOBBY Her other brother, Bobby, also had psychiatric problems. He had a nervous breakdown in the early 1950s during his sophomore year at Harvard. He was taken from his dorm, Eliot House, in a straitjacket. When he returned in to Harvard in the Autumn of 1953 he continued to see a psychiatrist in Boston. On August 20, 1963 he was committed again - this time to Bellevue, just a few months before Minty was admitted. After staying in Bellevue for ten days, he was committed to Manhattan State Hospital. On New Year's Eve 1964 he was riding his Harley Davidson without a helmut and crashed into the side of a bus, dying on January 12, 1965. (EDIE147/152) ANOREXIA Edie was first institutionalized in the autumn of 1962 after suffering from anorexia and, like her brother, attended the Silver Hill mental hospital. Her anorexia continued until she weighed only ninety pounds at which time she was transferred to Bloomingdale, the Westchester Division of New York Hospital. (EDIE115) Whereas Silver Hill was fairly liberal, Bloomingdale was very strict. Near the end of her stay there, she became pregnant while on a hospital pass and had to have an abortion. (EDIE115/7). CHUCK WEIN After her release from the hospital, she moved to Cambridge in the autumn of 1963 and continued to see a psychiatrist. There she met Chuck Wein, who according to a friend at the time, Ed Hennessy, "had graduated a year or two before, but he had come back to bum around." (EDIE126) She prospered socially, hanging out with people like Hennessy - "a kind of deliberately outrageous dandy at a time Harvard was not producing many dandies" (EDIE126). She left Cambridge after turning 21 and moved to New York in 1964. According to Sandy Kirkland, who hung out with Edie in her Manhattan apartment, Chuck Wein "would be plotting out the next move of their strategy - whom he was going to introduce to Edie that night, what they could do for her... Chuck had a real promoter's vision about her... He knew that she had this quality, but that she was totally disorganized and wouldn't be able to pull it off herself... so he took over her life." (EDIE176) In January 1965, Edie met Andy Warhol at Lester Persky's apartment. She began going to the Factory regularly in March with Chuck Wein. During one of these visits, Andy put her into Vinyl, at the last minute." (L&D219-20) She had previously made a very short appearance in Warhol's film, Horse, when she and Ondine entered the Factory toward the end of the film. Ronald Tavel (Vinyl scriptwriter): "I don't think Andy was taken in by Chuck for one minute. What he liked was his blond hair and blue eyes." (L&D220) Jane Holzer: "Edie was with this guy called Chuck Wein, and he had a bad vibe, a very bad vibe. Too many drugs." (UW52)
  10. alisa replied to Capt Snow's post in a topic in Ana Beatriz Barros
    it is sisley adv and one of my fav pics ever!!!
  11. alisa replied to Nath's post in a topic in Female Fashion Models
    she's engaged, apparently...
  12. alisa replied to Nath's post in a topic in Female Fashion Models
  13. alisa replied to seshiru's post in a topic in Female Fashion Models
    new cover
  14. alisa replied to miss's post in a topic in General Discussion
    well, i don't remember much, cos it was ages ago.... i know she was like 14 or 15 when she won and next year she appeared and the contest and she was with some guy and someone said it is father of her child... i think he was a photographer. and i was with elite for next few years and heard nothing about her. and the scary part is that there is nothing about her on the net... but elite was kind of weird agency. all scandals that followed later in the 90's never surprised me ... IMG's Paris director was elite's Paris lead man (woman that is) and she is an amazing woman... others were creepy. i never entered the competition cos i was in Serbia's finale but there was a huge scandal here cowsw the whole thing was just a set up... the girl who won in Serbia never did anything in modeling, plus she had plastic surgeries and she was 14!!! her father gave a lots of money for her to win. we knew that 2 moths in advance. and we were too young to react. also, this is all from EML in ex yugoslavia, some girls were told to stay in hotel few days before the show... just like 4 of them. and they weren't winners, or anything... they just stayed at the same hotel with judges. one of them, and i cannot name her, is now very well known model. the others did nothing.
  15. alisa replied to alisa's post in a topic in Female Fashion Models
    ID sept 08
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  17. alisa replied to seshiru's post in a topic in Female Fashion Models
    new perfume by kate fendi advs
  18. alisa replied to alisa's post in a topic in Female Fashion Models
    tnx to TFS posters and scanners
  19. alisa replied to seshiru's post in a topic in Female Fashion Models
  20. alisa replied to seshiru's post in a topic in Female Fashion Models
    tnx for the editorials!!!! :clap:
  21. alisa replied to alisa's post in a topic in General Discussion
    A rare 1989 Glimpse of Legendary Supermodels Backstage