Susan Bottomly

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Susan Bottomly aka International Velvet (born 1950 in Boston , Massachusetts ) is an American model , actress and former Andy Warhol - "superstar".

Life

Bottomly comes from a distinguished New England family. Her father was a lawyer in Boston. Susan met Warhol at a party in Boston in 1966 at the age of 16. In the same year she started her modeling career with a feature photo for Mademoiselle magazine (an American fashion magazine). Warhol described her style as "extraordinary" . The dark-haired mannequin had an extravagant way of dressing (mostly in Paco-Rabanne costumes) and surprised with exceptionally long eyelashes, long earrings and daring make-up .

Bottomly moved to New York in the summer of 1966, where she lived in the famous artist hotel Chelsea with Gerard Malanga , one of Warhol's closest collaborators . Malanga dedicated a number of poems to his then partner and also introduced her to the factory scene.

Susan became (alongside Ingrid Superstar ) the direct successor of Edie Sedgwick in Warhol's "Superstar" -actors entourage after Sedgwick became increasingly difficult to use drugs.

Bottomly appeared in several Warhol productions (e.g. The Chelsea Girls ).

Your stage name "International Velvet" refers to the film "National Velvet" from 1944 with the young Elizabeth Taylor in the lead role. According to Warhol biographer David Bourdon , Bottomly's model career should have been rather "unorthodox"; she achieved a sensation with a photo for Esquire magazine when she was photographed in a garbage can. The title of the article was: "Today's girl, twenty-one at the end" .

Susan Bottomly now lives in Hawaii .

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SURNAME Bottomly, Susan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES International Velvet
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American model and actress
DATE OF BIRTH 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Boston , Massachusetts