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. 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. 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. You approach them with innocence, and you revisit them as an adult and realize there’s more going on.

Demie represents womxn through different lenses, all with outcomes of alienation and objectification. 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.Both women collaborated on the text and the visuals, which star Demie as various elves, mermaids, fairies, and other make-believe creatures in surrealist sets that blend reality and fantasy. 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. Vogue may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers.

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. this is definitely a prized possession and i will forever be changed after witnessing it in all her glory. 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.Fairytales is an erotic folklore collection of Petra Collins and Alexa Demie's illustrated short stories. 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. For Alexa and I, doing this book of fairy tales was almost the most accurate reflection of the world around us today. Once upon a time, in the far-off kingdom of Los Angeles in the summer of 2020, photographer Petra Collins and Euphoria star Alexa Demie found love at first sight. Featuring illustrations by Evita Flores, deceivingly innocent, coloured-pencil drawings show butterflies in trees, witches and flying mice, a cottage in flames, and rope-wrapped mermaids accepting their fate.