Fairytales: Petra Collins and Alexa Demie

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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.

Their recent photo book "Fairy Tales" features Demie as nine different personas, including a faerie, siren, banshee and water sprite, as well as Hungarian legends like Tűz Anya (meaning'fire mother') that Collins grew up with.It explores the femininity and sexuality of mythological beings, but in the context of very human spaces, such as teenage bedrooms, medical facilities, parking lots and exotic dancing clubs. Retelling childhood stories, Petra Collins and Alexa Demie play with juxtaposition: dark and light, violence and kindness, delicacy and tension. Vogue may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers. Pre-release, it had already been solidified in pop-culture history with content creators mimicking the ethereal style on social media. Fairytales is an erotic folklore collection of Petra Collins and Alexa Demie's illustrated short stories.

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.Demie represents womxn through different lenses, all with outcomes of alienation and objectification. While Collins was mostly raised in the suburbs of Toronto, her mother fled Hungary in the 1980s, when it was still under Soviet rule. Fairytales is an erotic folklore collection of Petra Collins and Alexa Demie s illustrated short stories.