English Version | The Princess Diaries

Animated films have tried to standardize the beauty of princesses and create an image in our imagination of the main characters of the most emblematic fairy tales. But what if you were to forget everything you have ever seen?

Animated films have tried to standardize the beauty of princesses and create an image in our imagination of the main characters of the most emblematic fairy tales. But if you were to forget everything you have seen and concentrate on the narrative of The Little Mermaid, Cinderella, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, and The Princess and the Pea, how would you imagine these heroines? Like this? Perhaps you would paint them differently, but you would certainly dress them in Haute Couture, as a fairy godmother should. Illustrations by Nuno da Costa

Translated from the original on The Fairytale Issue, from Vogue Portugal, published May/June 2022.Full stories and credits on the print issue.