Fairytales: Petra Collins and Alexa Demie

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Collins has created a style that will go down in history as one that people can only hope to try to recreate. Alexa is currently working on her first EP, developing and producing film and TV, and engaged in social impact work focused on equality and representation, especially for the Latinx community and the next generation of youth.Alexa is currently working on her first EP, developing and producing film and TV, and engaged in social-impact work focused on equality and representation, especially for the Latinx community and the next generation of youth. Petra Collins is a multitalented artist and director whose photography set the stylistic tone for much of the 2010s. A capa tem uma qualidade incrível que já vale a pena toda a espera d valor, além das Fotos lindas que a Petra fez da Alexa. It’s something I’ve always been so interested in, partly because of the age I started working, when I was going through puberty and discovering myself,” says Collins. In my three years of being a die hard fan this has to be some of the most poignant work I’ve seen of hers.

Vogue may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers. It was super cathartic because I hadn’t created artwork since my last book, and there was a real sense of discovery where we were just playing. The photos are gorgeous and the aesthetic sucked me in immediately… an overall let down even though I enjoyed the art. honestly 4/5 stars still for the absolutely ethereal and fantastical photography but 0/5 for any words written on any page in this “erotic” book. As children, Petra and Alexa were both enamored with fairy tales, which provided an escape from their own painful realities.

The photos combine elements of camp, prosthetics, and shibari in a surreal update to the imagery of the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, Charles Perrault, and others. My grandmother would tell me a lot of Mexican folk tales when I was little, which were really scary, but I was so fascinated by them all,” she says. Created in collaboration with Euphoria star and muse Alexa Demie, Collins has just dropped "Fairy Tales," her latest book in the form of nine erotic short stories based on works by the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Anderson, and more. I wish they hadn’t advertised it as erotica, though, because there was absolutely no erotic writing lol… but Alexa Demie herself is erotica so I can’t complain. Subconsciously, those kinds of scary folk tales and the magical, sweet fairy tales that I grew up reading meshed together on this project, which was so perfect with Petra—she loves that aesthetic of blending something beautiful with something a little ugly or sexy or even terrifying.

Fairy Tales is] a collaboration with the photographer Petra Collins -- a body of work that reimagines the female creatures who inhabit folk- and fairy-tales, who are often cast as one-dimensional monsters or temptresses. Artist Petra Collins and actress Alexa Demie create nine erotic stories in a contemporary reimagining of a fairy tale book. Demie, who was raised in Los Angeles by her Mexican mother, grandmother, and aunts, had a similarly rich tradition of Hispanic folklore to draw on when it came to collaborating on these tales. Most of these stories do not make any sense, but Alexa Demie looks great so I can’t say that I’m disappointed because I got exactly what I was expecting when I got this book. Initially bought for the photos, obviously, so I didnt expect there to be multiple stories, and they honestly exceeded my expectations.Instead of glimpsing each other across a crowded room, they connected as any good millennials with a mutual admiration of each other’s work would: through a DM on Instagram. The project] wasn’t necessarily meant for a book, but it’s rare to take so many images and then find you love a lot of them,” Collins explains of its final manifestation. The soft focus and dreamy photography depict the truthful chaos and survival of mythical beings in a mortal world. Now more than a year later, the fruits of their labor are being released in a lavishly illustrated, 152-page hardbound book, Fairy Tales, out next week from Rizzoli. The darker European folklorists, from Charles Perrault to Hans Christian Andersen, spun stories with little resemblance to the Disney-sanitized versions we grew up on: The queen in Snow White wished to devour the girl’s lungs and liver, for example, and the evil stepsisters in Cinderella cut off their toes with a knife to fit into the glass slipper.