Andy Warhol’s Superstars And The Wild Stories From The Factory
The Main Muse: Ultra Violet
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Before she worked with Andy Warhol, Isabelle Collin Dufresne aka Ultra Violet, was Salvador Dali’s muse and lover. She said, “I realized that I was ‘surreal’, which I never knew until I met Dalí.”
Dali introduced her to Warhol, and she soon became a regular at The Factory. Warhol was the one who suggested she go by the stage name “Ultra Violet” due to her purple dyed hair. She appeared in over a dozen of his films and was Warhol’s main muse until she lost her position to Viva. While she was core to everything going on at Warhol’s studio, she stood back from the drugs, saying, “If I had lived like all those young people, I would be dead today.”
