Grey Gardens

Meet Big and Little Edie Beale—high-society dropouts, mother and daughter, reclusive cousins of Jackie O.—thriving together amid the decay and disorder of their ramshackle East Hampton mansion. An impossibly intimate portrait and an eerie echo of the Kennedy Camelot, Albert and David Maysles’s 1976 Grey Gardens quickly became a cult classic and established Little Edie as a fashion icon and philosopher queen.
Although they live amoung 30 cats and racoons in the attic, they seem not to notice the mansion decaying around them and eat ice cream with knives as if this was the norm. The house is over grown with trees and vegetation. The old paintings lying around and photographs show a glimpse of the beatufy and richness of a once better time. They have little money but carry themselves in a regal manner, pretending not to notice the lack of funds. Little Edie makes her clothes from random material that she finds around the home, pinning them together yet pulling off a fashionable look. She is never seen without her head covered in a shall or hankerchief.