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. 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.

Collins has created a style that will go down in history as one that people can only hope to try to recreate. 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. In the Brothers Grimm version of Rapunzel, it’s hinted that the young woman has been locked away in a tower for her promiscuity, while the 17th-century Italian version of Sleeping Beauty sees the central character impregnated by the king during her slumber. When I was a kid, I wasn’t allowed to watch Disney, but I grew up on Hungarian folk tales,” she says.

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 Andersen, Charles Perrault, and others.

Petra Collins is a multitalented artist and director whose photography set the stylistic tone for much of the 2010s. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. I absolutely loved the artistic direction, set design, alexa’s modeling, and of course the graphic design.