Edie Sedgwick, socialite, model, fashion icon, film star, and collaborator in Andy Warhol's underground cinema of the 1960s. The legacy of Edie Sedgwick as the New York fashion icon (Vogue's 'youthquaker' andLife's 'girl with the black tights') and associate of Andy Warhol is still keenly felt today with the recent homage to her in a collection by Marc Jacobs, and an earlier one at Dior in 2005, and even thirty-three years after her death (then only 28 years old) her image was used to front a successful NARS cosmetics campaign; in short, Edie Sedgwick is the definition of iconic.Factory Girl, Factory Filmsis the first to explore the relationship between Edie Sedgwick and Warhol anew specifically in relation to the filmmaking and cinema, detailing all 22 films and 3 videos. Gary Needham explores several issues relevant to the study of Warhol and Warhol's cinema, and proposing important new frameworks around collaborative artistic practices, acting, performance, stardom, and underground cinema.