Butterfly Girl: Emma Garland Breaks Down The Fantasy Character Immortalized By Crazy Town
As the ’90s bled into the ’00s, a new kind of “girl” emerged. She combined the mainstream appeal of baby- faced American femininity with the subversive lure of the alternative. She was pitted against the popular crowd in sexually-charged teen horror films like Ginger Snaps and The Faculty. She was seen writhing around in a hot tub and pillow-fighting in Marilyn Manson’s video for Tainted Love. And she was the lifeblood of SuicideGirls – a once-omnipresent online community that gave burlesque pin-up photography a heavily tattooed twist.