Fairytales: Petra Collins and Alexa Demie

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Fairytales is an erotic folklore collection of Petra Collins and Alexa Demie s illustrated short stories.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. 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.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. For both Collins and Demie, the project was rooted in the darker corners of the fairy tales that they grew up with. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

It felt half-baked, stories obviously being made up afterwards in an attempt to form some sort of narrative for each photo series in each chapter. So I bought this for the photos (I would assume that many of us did lol) and I did not expect the writing to be that great… and I was correct.Vogue may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers. 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. Pre-release, it had already been solidified in pop-culture history with content creators mimicking the ethereal style on social media.

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. Shooting since the age of 15, her work is fueled by self-discovery and a contemporary femininity which explore the complex intersection of life as a young woman online and off. 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. Shooting since the age of 15, her work is fueled by self-discovery and a contemporary femininity that explores the complex intersection of life as a young woman online and off. Petra and Alexa's chapters of elves, mermaids, sirens, water sprites, fallen angels, fairies, witches, and banshees blend their own stories with retold fairy tales.The photos combine elements of camp, prosthetics, and shibari in a surreal update to the imagery of the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Anderson, Charles Perrault, and others. Alexa Demie is an actor, musician, and multi-hyphenate talent who currently stars as Maddy in HBO's Euphoria. 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.

It helped too that there was an instant artistic synergy between the pair from their very first day on set together. Indeed, the interplay of text and images throughout the book has less in common with engravings from a well-thumbed tome of old fairy tales than with something like Madonna’s infamous Fabien Baron–designed, Steven Meisel–lensed publication, Sex. 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. I absolutely loved the artistic direction, set design, alexa’s modeling, and of course the graphic design.I think this book is a great signifier of the zeitgeist and the challenges womxn face today, particularly on social media and image-based communications. I loved every chapter of this book, and what stuck with me were the themes of being okay being alone, as well as sexuality and sensuality for the purpose of womens joy.