Subscribe to Instagram: Artist Petra Collins

Olesya Iva

Life without social networks in 2014 - something from the field of bold experiments, for which few are ready. You can use microblogging in order to be aware of the smallest details of the lives of your friends, or you can view the whole world through them. To help with the second, we will regularly talk about the authors of the most beautiful instagram accounts, witty twitter and socially useful Facebook. In general, people whose accounts are able to inspire us to feats or throw a couple of ideas on how to diversify our own lives, and for which it makes sense to subscribe right now.

One of the new Instagram stars is New York artist and photographer Petra Collins, girlfriend Tavi Gevinson and Gia Coppola, creator of an online platform for women artists, contributor to Vice, The New York Times, Papermag and Rookie blog, photographer Vogue Italia, Oyster Magazine , Nero Japan and iD, as well as the face of the brand Kim Gordon X-Girl.

Petra Collins looks like a 70's style icon, wears furs and ripped jeans, doesn't shave her armpits and uploads photos of her friends and selfies that are banned from bikinis in tinsel. With her pictures, she fights for the right of any woman to interpret and demonstrate her sexuality in her own way and opposes the Instagram censorship policy on the female body.

"For those who frown on my body or leave comments under my photos in the spirit of" this is terrible and disgusting, "I advise you to think carefully: why do you disgust these things? Why do you not have enough tolerance? Why does it shock you? Do not let anyone dictate how you should look, who you should be and how to relate to your body, "says Petra.