"Part Burlesque starlet, part innovative performance artiste, part music hall Vaudevillian, and all dreamer. But don’t be fooled by her impish allure - Vicky Butterfly’s elegant, classic style comes with a twist.

The daughter of an Irish showgirl and an eccentric Viennese aristocrat, her shows reflect her unusual background, with clouds of butterflies that really fly out from her clothes as she hovers en Pointe. True to the original spirit of Burlesque and Vaudeville, her beautifully choreographed routines take in everything from the ethereal, the breath-taking and the beautiful to the macabre and the comic.

She is a Carnival Queen with a show-stopping 17” corseted waist, a doll, a butterfly, a peacock, a swan, a silver-screen siren, a living Klimt painting, a sorcerer - and anything her imagination can create! Fusing old-school glamour with even older-school strangeness as well as an up-to-date sense of humour and fun, her performances utilise elements of her varied performance background, including ballet, tap, circus, acting and even opera.

In demand all over the world and having amassed an enviable list of past clients you can also see her making her mark on the big screen and in a brace of music videos for top bands.

As well as having all the style of Hollywood's Golden Age or a Victorian ingénue she is also clever with a mischievous sense of humour. As such, she is currently collaborating on a book - on Carnys, no less.

Not only is Vicky a classic beauty with a true vintage look and an all natural 34-22-34 figure, but her skills as a trained costumier (honed during a degree at Central Saint Martins) ensure a range of spectacular and unique costumes and corsetry. As an avid collector, her wardrobe is a museum of eclecticism and contains almost 1000 pieces of original vintage.

With her magical repertoire, elaborate wardrobe, 8ft cresent moon and her own travelling Victorian Vaudeville Theatre, Vicky adds the essential flair of mischief and mystery to any show.

Catch her if you can..."

PERFORMING SINCE 2002, CREDITS INCLUDE:

MUSIC VIDEOS for The Verve, The Fratellis, The Kings of Leon, The Hoosiers, Elliot Minor, Girls Aloud, Client, The Killers, Fear of Music and Scott Matthews.

On TELEVISION in 'High Society's Favourite Gigolo', ‘A Waste of Shame’, 'Fear of Fanny’, 'WAGs Boutique' and 'Identity'.

On FILM in ‘I Want Candy’, 'Harness Your Immensity' (recently shown at the Milan Film Festival), the Bollywood film 'Raftar (24/7)', 'Dead In Her Throat: The Last Song Of The Bird-Woman', ‘Wolf!’ and other independent films.

ADVERTS for clients such as ’Imperial Leather Foamburst’ and 'Ocado'/'Waitrose'.

MAGAZINES such as French Playboy, Italian Vogue, Disorder, Bizarre, Tank, Stimulus, Tales, The Chap, Alternative Magazine, Night, Metro, Kill Pop and many more...

THEATRE in The Ministry of Burlesque's ‘Victorian Values', 'Burlesque-esque' and various other productions.

CATWALK for Mark Powell, Philip Normal, Maria Morris, Lady Lucie's Corsets and Miss Hussy

She will be appearing in a forthcoming BOOK featuring British Burlesque performers by Neil Kendall, a book on performance art by Alexandra Jasper and an art book about The Midnight Society as well as collaborating on a book of her own on Carnys (she is also writing a novel).

She has danced on stage with numerous LIVE BANDS (including the Sohodolls, The Puppini Sisters, Men and Gods and Cuckoo Savante), as well as being in a few of her own.

She is a MODEL for Mint Siren lingerie (who have named a set of tassels after her), Vivien of Holloway, the face and body of both Tonia Bastyan and Deadly Nightshade, and was the cover girl for the 2008 'What Katie Did' retro lingerie calender.

She is also still a practicing ARTIST, with an exhibition of her work due later this year.



REVIEWS:
"Vicky Butterfly, le papillon victorien qui cartonne en Europe, nous précise que c’est un pouvoir qu’exerce la femme artiste. En quelque sorte le pouvoir de parvenir à un érotisme en sollicitant les courbes et stéréotypes de la femme, pour mieux l’en affranchir." - French Playboy

"Miss Vicky Butterfly is lush. She has the extraordinary curves, the bee-waist and ripe thighs of a Regency poule de luxe crossed with a Bettie Page vixen's face... all of us at the table, irrespective of gender, have developed minor crushes and we watch mesmerised as the butterflies that cover her pearly bosom flutter off on to the floor... making delicious little moues, she engages us in flirtatious eye-contact: when the peacock feathers waft from Miss Vicky's body during her Peacock Lament, it doesn't matter if you temporarily lose the ability to wield cutlery. But we had fun. Whoop whoop and hell, yeah." - Marina O'Loughlin, the London Metro

“…wittily deadpan…(her) way with feathers gave me faith in burlesque.” -Time Out

"...notable as a real innovator, lacing her costumes and routines with a bewitching dose of fairy-tale surrealism that stands her sharply apart from the crowd." - The Metro

"Already threatening to achieve legendary diva status, this classic, mysterious siren is leaving us breathless." - Bizarre Magazine

"Avant-garde princess..." - The Ministry of Burlesque

"Spectacular... a corsetted Isadora Duncan with the grace of Steichen's 1920 photograph on the Parthenon's steps." - Alternative Magazine

"In the sultry yellow light, the porcelain skin of the girl seems phosphorescent... she radiates an ethereal energy. Something about her suggests that she's a creature of the night - a lunar being who's most alive in the witching hours. Perhaps it's her moon-pale complexion, which contrasts with a cascade of deep red hair, or the way the shawl draped over her delicate limbs makes her resemble an antique doll that lives in a walnut chest in a high, cobwebbed loft, and magically springs to life when the stars come out to play... the revered Burlesque artiste with a tiny 17" corsetted waist." - Bizarre Magazine

"A performer whose act harks back to the music hall era, with butterflies billowing from her clothes as she performs acts that balance eroticism, humour and horror..." - Peter Harrod, Spoonfed.co.uk Arts website

"...the provocative form of Miss Vicky Butterfly...an artist that will carry a stylish, mischevious show that unites love, music and performance... very spicy, but never vulgar.” -Micca Club, Rome

"Perfection incarnate. And an amazing dancer!" -Gentry de Paris

"Nymph-like..." - The Metropolitain Hotel

“...an amazing highlight of the night.” -Slingshot Studios

“Vicky Butterfly is one of the most original and best dressed Burlesque performers I’ve seen... She performed last month and we had to have her back IMMEDIATELY! Move over Dita!’’ - One For The Lovers

"Spectacular." - View From The Top Gallery

"Togged up in breath taking outfit, Miss Butterfly injected life and ooh-la-la into the ballroom, while dancing to the tinkling of a musicbox...I was sent to a dreamy state for 5 mins." - SP: 'Loose Lips, Hot Gossip'

"Retro Burlesque performer Mistress... Sheer elegance!" - Nikkie Amouyal (Rockabaret), The Londonist

"Talented" - Night Magazine

"The Dainty Ecdysiast" - Kittie Klaw

"The evening opened with a bang with the fabulous Miss Vicky Butterfly..." - QueerID

"Demonic Darlings" - Alternative Magazine (on Les Enfants Terribles)



Vicky Butterfly has PERFORMED at/for:

1 Temple Place (Lord Astor's former residence),
43 South Moulton Street Members Club,
Adam Street Private Members Club,
Annabel's Private Members Club,
Le Bal Palladien (Paris),
BB Queen (Italy), The Bizarre Ball,
The Bloomsbury Ballroom,
BNP Paribas (Paris bank),
Bordello (L.A.),
The Cafe de Paris,
Cannes Film Festival with the MoB (Cannes),
Chelsea Arts Club,
The Coronet,
Divan du Monde (Paris - made famous by Toulouse Lautrec!),
Download Festival,
Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster after-show party,
The Erotic Awards,
The El Cid theatre (Hollywood),
Eurostar private event(Paris),
Exotic World (Las Vegas),
Fashion Week VIP Room (Metropolitain Hotel),
Gasoline (Milan),
Gentry de Paris (Paris),
The Great Eastern Hotel Masonic Temple,
Home House,
The Hootchy Kootchy Club (Stockholm),
The Hoxton Music Hall,
The Kerrang! Music Awards,
The Kills after-show party (Paris),
Koko,
Lady Luck,
Latitude Festival,
Le Baron (Paris),
Le Lup (Paris),
Les Pin-Ups invitent au Sens (Paris),
London Chocolate Week,
London Fashion Week VIP Room,
M1NT Private Members Club with the MoB,
The Marie Antoinette DVD launch,
Mark Powell's tailoring show,
The Met Bar,
Micca Club (Rome),
Murder Suicide presents... (Paris),
Never Too Busy To Be Beautiful cosmetics,
The Nomura bank Christmas party,
The O2,
Palais de Tokyo (Paris Museum of Modern Art) (Paris),
The Palms (Las Vegas),
Pangea,
Patek Phillipe luxury watches launch,
The Puppini Sisters (band),
Richard James (Saville Row Tailor),
The Ritz (Paris), The Scala,
The Sohodolls (band),
The Strokes after-show party,
Supergrass album launch,
Tease @ 3's (L.A.),
The Theatre Museum,
Torture Garden,
UK Bartenders Guild,
Umbaba,
V&A Museum,
Voodoo Deluxe (Milan),
The WAGs Boutique,
The Whoopee! Club...and more, including exclusive clients whose names shall remain confidential!


Her costume work includes designs for Miss Polly Rae of Hurly Burly Cabaret, the West End play 'On Religion', 'Couture Clubbing' fashion performance, three costumes for 'Jack The Ripper' short film for The Vincent Razorbacks, props and costume for the cover of an Alison Moyet album, and pieces for Agent Provocateur's 2006 Christmas Windows. She was also assistant to the fabulous Miss Hussy: Burlesque Costumier.

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