Smashing Pumpkins – Siamese Dream album art
Art Direction: Len Peltier
Design: Steve J. Gerdes
That title and the close proximity of the two little girls pictured on its cover led many to assume they were conjoined twins. Billy Corgan even seemed to have a little fun with this assumption back in 2007, when he posted that the band were looking for their 1993 cover girls “who are not conjoined anymore, as far as we know.” In fact, they never were. We know this for one very simple reason: We know the identity of one of the two girls pictured on the album cover, and she has no siblings attached to her side. The girl to the right in the photo is Ali Laenger. When the FW posted a recent photo of Laenger in 2012, they noted that she now works as both a model and a designer.
As for her front cover friend; well, that’s where things get a little weird. …
