Grey Gardens' Style Tip - A Beauty Recluse Must Be Resourceful!
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Fashion types have been kvelling over the documentary Grey Gardens, long before it was reworked into the big Drew Barrymore film that airs this Saturday on HBO.
Little Edie (above left, portrayed by Drew Barrymore, above right, in the HBO feature) invented all kinds of (frankly bizarre) uses for one single garment, giving her top marks among designers and stylists. But as both a fan of the film and a beauty editor, I feel that Little Edie hasn't been given her fair due on the beauty front, where she's been equally as inventive with limited means. I'll leave it to makeup artist and Grey Gardens enthusiast Craig Jessup to break it down.
"Little Edie's sense of style was born out of her need to be resourceful," he says. Since she was a recluse, weekend jaunts to Bloomie's weren't in question (and Sephora.com didn't exist yet). "She had to edit down her look to the items that she felt were absolutely necessary, or perhaps down to the only two items she had at hand; a bright red lipstick and a black eyeliner pencil."
Little Edie Beale - From Socialite to Grey Gardens
American socialite Edith Beale 'Little' Edith Bouvier Beale (1917 - 2002), a cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, circa 1935.
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American socialite Edith Beale (1917 - 2002) models a dress outdoors during a fashion show at the East Hampton Fair, East Hampton, Long Island, New York, c. 1938.
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Edith Beale as a child, posing with her mother, Big Edie.
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'Little' Edith Bouvier Beale (1917 - 2002), a cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, modeling swimwear during her job as a fashion model, circa 1935.
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Eccentric American model and singer Edith Bouvier Beale (1917 - 2002) sits on the back of a beach chair and smokes a cigarette, Village Fair at Easthampton, New York, late 1930s. Miss Beale and her mother were the subjects of the Maysles brothers' documentary 'Grey Gardens.'
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American socialite Edith Beale 'Little' Edith Bouvier Beale (1917 - 2002), posing with her dog.
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Edith Bouvier Beale (1917 - 2002), a cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, at home with her cats in Grey Gardens, a run-down mansion in East Hampton, New York, circa 1975.
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Edith Bouvier Beale in front of Grey Gardens, her family's South Hampton estate.
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American socialite Edith Beale 'Little' Edith Bouvier Beale (1917 - 2002), wearing one of her eccentric head "scarves."
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American socialite Edith Beale 'Little' Edith Bouvier Beale (1917 - 2002), at Grey Gardens, her family estate.
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