this girl TAVI, this 13-year-old-or-so style blogging girl who is so funny!

http://tavi-thenewgirlintown.blogspot.com/

her blog is called STYLE ROOKIE and i think she is truly funny, cutely self-deprecating, and kind of o_Oingly knowledgeable.

what do you think?

http://98.131.93.137/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/tavi-style-rookie-love-cover-magazine.jpg

wes anderson vibes

"I love the holes. They're a little more like teary-eyed lace than they are 'LOOK, I'M SO HARDCORE I RIPPED MY JEANS. ALSO PS MY NAME IS CHRISTOPHE DECARNIN.' The holes here look like a bunch of delicate baby moths tattered up your long sweater but you love it so much that you'll wear it anyway. And next, NEXT! was my favorite part of the collection.."

"I WAS SO OBSESSED WITH BRADLEY'S OUTFIT AND KEPT DEMANDING HE LET ME TAKE HIS PICTURE. For one, the hair. For two, the shirt with the criss-cross pie crust pattern. For three, a beaded collar thing that didn't come with the other stuff. For four, the perfect pouf shoulder blazer, thrifted. Way more perfect than any sharp shoulder military jacket that Balmain showed this season. Bet you didn't see that coming! Also unexpected: glitter, distressed denim, cheap-looking fabrics... Ok now back to something that doesn't make me want to vomit:"

Her meeting Marc Jacobs:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_WN0DBL1HES8/SsUl3uJ0j5I/AAAAAAAAFRA/fIagFoCtAHg/s400/tavimarc-1.jpg

so cute haw!!

she posted another one and drew hearts on it and wrote "new BFFS" in mspaint <3

http://vimeo.com/6525889

so cute

Loving reading this, despite have completely no clue what she's talking about ever at all

she looks like when i tried to cut my own hair and failed. :)

damn are people actually that smart at age 13

Tween girls nowadays all seem to be dressing like Claudia Kishi. Not that I object.

It's cool to see someone so young write about fashion with that kind of knowledge, her blog is great. Thanks for the link!

"This is probz my favorite outfit I've worn in a long time though. Wearing a box on yer head gives a feeling like no other!"

xpost xpost xpost

np nicole!

Apparently to one day of fashion week she wore a shirt made of newspaper articles about Michael Jackson, and (as intended) throughout the day it slowly fell apart, "like Michael"

i wonder what i would have even thought about that at 13

"Camp has started so I gotsta dress somewhat comfortably. Poopy!

Until I can be impractical again and actually feel inspired, random obnoxious musings about random people at the CFDA awards? Yes? GOD I KNOW MY BLOG IS SO INTELLECTUAL. 13 YEAR OLD PRODIGY OMG."

<3

damn killing it

I don't think I could write that well now, let alone at 13.

It's like Diesel adopted Margiela's baby and made it ugly and wear tacky clothes.

srsly killing it

http://vimeo.com/3934958

from 3:55 on, killing it

was perusing fashion magazines yesterday and noticed my girl is on the cover of Pop, killing it

it was really weird seeing her paraded around by the PRs at the ny shows... she looked so frightened at Y-3 -- she was between Lupe Fiasco and someone else... Either The Misshapes or Amanda Lepore? I can't remember. Or maybe it was Perry Farrell

If it was Perry Farrell, I can understand the fear! He looks like death.

http://i553.photobucket.com/albums/jj379/philtwo/tavi.jpg

here's pic i took of her at y-3... another photog asked "why are we taking pics of this little boy..."

aw, did u talk to her?

didn't know what to say, and anyway the PR people shooed her away to her seat so they could get perry farell into the photo area...

holy shit at: "I start each week as bitter as Daria mixed with Enid Coleslaw, then become Lindsay Weir and sort of switch between trying and not, then by the weekend I'm Millie and happy and wearing sweaters with sheep on them. Soooooo:" btw!!!

Does it mean anything that those cultural references are all 10 years old?

yeah that's what freaks me out

drumroll please

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v136/primrosehill/TAVIANDJAMES.jpg

"Ignoring that this is a slightly awkward picture, DANIEL DESARIO!
I said I loved Freaks and Geeks and fangirled and he asked if I was a freak or a geek and I said in between and he said him also he's more of a geek now because he's back in school then he tugged lightly at my sleeve and said i was hip like a freak but seemed smart like a geek and i was all OH STOP THAT YOU'RE TOO KIND and i said a geek can be hip like millie and he said millie is a nerd! and i said no millie is awesome! and we argued and then a guy in a hat took our picture."

jesus this kid is awesome http://i.somethingawful.com/forumsystem/emoticons/emot-iia.png

kinda depressing tbh, to know that u have never and will never be as cool as this kid is at the tender age of whatever; the only hope i can cling to is that she will spiral into a degenerate junkie fashionista lifestyle by the time she's 16 (actually that still sounds p. cool)

i am so v jealous of this interaction with franco

"Hip like a freak/Smart like a geek"

awesome. she looks like a grandma, lol.

Ahhhhhhhhhhh @ her and Franco. omg. Also, her and Marc Jacobs - so cute!

<3 "and then a guy in a hat took our picture."

t/s: rufus vs tavi

OMG, Tavi is mentioned in this article I'm editing at work on the Year in Fashion.

what happened in the year in fashion? balmain, fashion bloggers looking like erin wasson, old american working class labels getting posh redesigns, ridiculous shoes..

... no one made any money

this fucking gal

Ha, she sometimes babysits for us! Didn't make much of an impression on our 5-year old, but then, she's not very fashion conscious. If Tavi had shown up in a tiara and pink dress, my daughter would have been more impressed.

Awww! <3

Claws are out for teen fashion blogger

February 18, 2010

Derick Chetty

New York–On Monday night at the Marc Jacobs show, the reporter holding the Fashion Television microphone was about 4 feet tall, wrapped in a multicoloured coat, wearing a giant pink flower tucked into her drab grey bob.

When she approached the designer's boyfriend, Lorenzo Martone, for an interview, he had to fold himself in half to answer her questions.

Obviously, this was not Jeanne Beker, the gregarious and seasoned host of the Toronto-based television show that's beamed around the world.

The 13-year-old rookie reporter is Tavi Gevinson, the newest and youngest sensation in the fashion world.

The pint-sized blogger, who lives in the suburbs of Chicago, has been skipping school to sit in the front row at the world's most important fashion shows. Since she began writing her blog (tavi-thenewgirlintown.blogspot.com) in 2008, she has quickly ascended through the ranks of fashion journalism, though her designer shoes still don't reach the floor.

She sat front and centre at the recent Dior haute couture show, a pride of place reserved for fashion's inner sanctum. She's met John Galliano and Karl Lagerfeld. She's been featured on the cover of hip magazines such as Pop and made it onto the pages of Vogue Paris and Harper's Bazaar.

There's a resentment brewing here, however, as Tavi appears to have moved too quickly from obscurity to celebrity status, but when the elephant in the room is a shy teenager, it's hard to be mean.

Well, not that hard.

While the fashion world has always embraced eccentrics, there is the inevitable backlash already – from the very community that rushed to embrace her.

It all went down during the recent round of haute couture shows.

An editor from Grazia, one the largest circulated magazines in the United Kingdom, was relegated to the second row and seated behind Tavi, who was wearing a giant bow on her head. The editor took a pic and posted it on Twitter complaining about her obstructed view. That single tweet ignited a firestorm.

Many, like the esteemed fashion critic Sarah Mower, expressed concern that Tavi was waltzing around Paris during school time. Others rushed to Tavi's defence, wondering how fashion folk could be so cruel to a child.

Again showing remarkable poise for her age, Tavi addressed the issue on her blog. "My parents and I are the ones who know my school's absences policy, how my teachers feel about my missing school and what my grades look like – not anyone else."

Designer Christopher Kane told British Vogue he's fed up. "No one who wants to read a serious review of a show is going to look at what a 14-year-old thinks."

This week at the Marc Jacobs show, as Tavi made the rounds on her reporter gig, you could see the amusement/resentment in the eyes of the audience.

One veteran photographer at the show sniffed, "She is no Anna Piaggi," referring to the fashion world's most famous eccentric, the 80-something style icon who works for Italian Vogue.

This week, filling in for Beker, who's in Vancouver for the Olympics, Tavi assumed her role as novelty.

"This is a one-shot deal," Beker says by phone from the West Coast. "She is the 'it' girl of cyber fashion."

Beker says fashion is all about the unexpected. Every season there are pros who provide insightful commentary, but Tavi brings a fresh eye.

"Fashion does not always have to be heavy. This is just something fun."

Does the popular fashionista, who has been host of the show for more than 20 years, worry about her job?

"Oh God, no! If I was worried about a 13-year-old, I would have gotten out of this business a long time ago," she says, laughing.

At one show, gangs of people pleaded for an opportunity to pose for a photo beside the little girl with the grey hair.

As usual Tavi handled the attention with grace beyond her years.

she posted a thing abt that iirc

LOVE THIS GIRL

cold killing it daily on blogger and facebook

ts; tavi gevinson vs barry levinson

she's great imho

http://gawker.com/5524990/fashions-tiniest-celebrity-blogger-shut-down-by-the-man

5,000 companies currently emailing her offers of webspace...

RIP

blog is back up, btw.

yeah blogger apologized

lol

I basically try to replicate this girl's style whenever possible:
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b74/righteouskate/tavi.jpg

http://www.nypost.com/rw/nypost/2010/09/14/entertainment/photos_stories/cropped/tavi_gevinson--300x300.jpg

profile of her in the new New Yorker

full article is print only

Good article, except for the reference to Diplo as a rapper.

ha. just read it earlier this morning -- I agree, it is really good. I know nothing whatsoever about fashion, but I still found it compelling

best outfit

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4113/4964874819_39efc64a70_b.jpg

She's going to make a magazine with the editor/founder of Sassy, "aimed at wallflowers" according to a Belgian news site (where she's called a famous blogger)?

<3<3<3 this idea

yeah, this sounds great, although Jane Pratt kind of eroded most of my goodwill over the course of Jane magazine.

Went to a local live talk show and saw Tavi get interviewed. Girl's got it together. Hadn't heard about the magazine beforehand, but I think it's a shrewd move for her: she presumably gets to maintain her voice and aesthetic while pulling the focus away slightly from her and the attendant novelty of her age.

i cant handle this kid... too reinforced... all those people telling her what a genius she is, that's not childhood... gives me the willies

http://www.thestylerookie.com/2011/02/paperbag-princess.html

tavi has a courtney love shrine <3

imo those boys she thinks were making fun of her were probably thinking, maybe secretly but still, O_O

she has a new site

http://rookiemag.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/girlscompete-540x786.jpg

<3

i guess this is the Jane Pratt magazine mentioned upthread.

NEWSFLASH! Scott Schuman aka The Sartorialist is an arrogant fuckstick! Also, he does not think much of Tavi:

Mr. Schuman, nowadays teenage bloggers like Tavi Gavinson are getting flown around the world to sit on the front rows of fashion shows in order to write about them. Isn’t that getting a little absurd?

Well I don’t think her audience is that big. I think her success is a little bit of a conspiracy by established print media that wanted to show that this blog thing is not that important, that it’s done by a bunch of twelve year olds. But a lot of us are serious grown-ups. I think it’s great that Tavi can create a blog and write for other people that are like-minded – probably other kids around her age – but I don’t know how that is going to help a 26-year old, if she has never had a boyfriend or any of that kind of stuff. She’s just a kid, so she can talk about art and stuff only in an abstract way.

Do you think she is going to last?

She might grow into that position, but to me it is like a five-year old Michael Jackson singing about love – to him they are just words. It is just an abstract concept. One of the other problems of many blogs like Tavi’s is that they are people who write about fashion, but in order to have a visual element they steal pictures from other people.

http://the-talks.com/interviews/scott-schuman-the-sartorialist/

that interview is v v lolsome, btw

i stopped reading his blog a year or two ago because of the attitude and also, i don't think i much care for his taste.

garance is really good though, he's right about that.

he makes some good points about the business side as well, actually. but i don't understand, given that his most visible project is his website, why it sat in a generic blogger template with no design work done whatsoever from day 1 of his blog to only a few months ago? and some of his photos aren't loading due to some technical issue? you would think a better website would be worth the investment.

tavi is going to be on wait wait don't tell me this week!

michael jackson singing about love p good iirc

http://rookiemag.com/2012/03/absolute-beginners/

i read some of that

love this:
http://youtu.be/6osiBvQ-RRg

Awesome and righteous and funny too!

OKAY I LOVE TAVI

I GOT HAIR STYLING TIPS FROM A 15 Y/O

I found out there was a Rookie reader meetup today about an hour before it happened, so I joined about 25 or so insufferably precious oversized-sunglassed/tiara'd/flower-dress-wearing high school age girls and hung out/talked life/made crafts with Tavi Gevinson in Rittenhouse Square today. It was, after the first 15 or so minutes, actually a lot more fun than it sounds and we got to talk about Heathers and feminism and personal identity! Also there was a super lolworthy moment when this group of girls noticed the orange-and-covered-with-plastic-flowers bike that belonged to this girl
I came with and at least 10 girls started squealing and whipped out their iPhones all "omg that is SOOOO CUUUUTE I have to Instagram that RIGHT. NOW!!!!!"

But for real, Tavi is super chill and intelligent and likable and there is p much 0 reason to hate on this girl.

Also
http://i934.photobucket.com/albums/ad184/sdolnack/64b162a2.jpg

Awesome!

killer photo

i love it!

what is depicted on yr buckle?

^_^

is she wearing a beavis & butthead pin? she is, isn't she?

Oh she totally is. Also on my belt buckle is a deer head in profile.

I thought that Scott Schulman piece was fair/balanced comment, above.

schuman's entitled to his wrong opinions, sure

She's doing a book event at Frank Lloyd Wright's Unity Temple tonight. Might go.

you totally should.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZQQA8Ce7Yo

i love what she wrote on her old blog for its 5 year anniversary. bless her heart. it makes me wish i had been at all self-aware at her age. all the stuff about trying to document every moment and experiencing real anxiety about it - i wonder how common that is among teen girls. pretty common i'd guess, at least among a certain set

is there a thread for rookie? if not, there should be.

stevie + tavi is all-time

No Rookie thread, but this:

Bringing Tavi Gevinson Over to ILE from I Love Style Because She'll Probably Be Famous

Favorite "Ask A Grown Man", with her dad:

http://vimeo.com/60057489

Happy 2nd birthday Rookie! http://rookiemag.com/2013/09/editors-letter-23/

Member Picks Recommended Tavi Gevinson
When: Thu., Sept. 20, 7 p.m. 2012
Phone: 708-386-9800
Price: $10 (redeemable toward book purchase)
booktable.net
Gevinson (Style Rookie) presents Rookie Yearbook One.
Unity Temple
875 Lake St. OAK PARK/RIVER FOREST
phone 708-445-8955
unitytemple.org

Oops--that was last year. Make that:

Author Tavi Gevinson: "Rookie Yearbook 2"
Meet Tavi Gevinson, founder and editor-in-chief of the online teen magazine sensation, "Rookie," when she discusses her second volume of the popular "Rookie Yearbook." Gevinson started her personal blog,"Style Rookie" in 2008 when she was 11 years old. Within two years, the blog was averaging 50,000 hits per day. In September 2011, Gevinson launched "Rookie," a website for girls like her: teenagers who are interested in fashion and beauty but also in dissecting the culture around them through a unique teen-girl lens. "Rookie" broke one million page views within its first six days.
Admission is $10; each ticket can be redeemed for $10 off the cover price of "Rookie Yearbook 2" on the night of the event. Purchase tickets online at www.booktable.net.
Writers at Wright is a partnership between The Book Table, Friends of the Oak Park Public Library, Midwest Media and Unity Temple Restoration Foundation dedicated to bringing the finest authors to speak at Frank Lloyd Wright's Unity Temple in Oak Park, IL.

When:
Tuesday, October 1, 2013 - 7:00pm to 10:00pm
Where:
Unity Temple - Oak Park

Favorite "Ask A Grown Man", with her dad:

http://vimeo.com/60057489

― The Bridges of Witchy Woman (Eazy), Friday, August 30, 2013 10:53 AM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol @ tavi in this

http://movies.nytimes.com/2013/09/18/movies/enough-said-stars-james-gandolfini-and-julia-louis-dreyfus.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOKM_LqvHSo

"julia louise dreyfuss"

"turvi goovinson"

I love how this interviewer is like "oh hi little girl" and tavi's like "....."

@tavitulle

omg stop http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2013/11/jamie-king-smart-parody-or-destructive-stereotype/281838/ … i am done with think pieces on teen girls by grown men

no wait just one more

does that mean she is not done with grown male australian comedians playing teen girls?

i've seen previews for that show and it seems aggressively unfunny.

Tavi Gevinson ‏@tavitulle 7h

also: think pieces on millennials. narcissism required to author a think piece = (if not GREATER THAN) narcissism required to take a selfie

tavi otm

yeah thats a good tweet

The one after that was good, too

Tavi Gevinson @tavitulle 8h

selfies are here to stay get ovaries it &as long as there are reddit threads of secret shots of girls' butts let them selfie their own butts

otm

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/culture/la-et-cm-c1-tavi-gevinson-style-rookie-dto,0,7429842.htmlstory#axzz2rAX1nrYq

She gets an allowance just like a normal teen.

is she some kind of perma-teen, i feel like she should be like 20 now

i know someone my age who writes for Rookie and refers to Tavi as "my boss"

jealous you know lena dunham

Yeah, seems like she should be at least 20.

Being Tavi's Mom

I wish I could read that

big news for tavi! http://www.playbill.com/news/article/189820-Michael-Cera-Kieran-Culkin-and-Tavi-Gevinson-Will-Star-in-Broadway-Premiere-of-This-Is-Our-Youth

Excited!

Really want to see it at Steppenwolf. Not just because of her, either -- I've always wanted to see a Lonergan play.

this girl is obviously preternaturally intelligent and wise but having gone to a left-wing summer camp/hung out with a lot of smart children of (essentially) hippie parents from oak park, evanston, etc. i kind of know where she comes from. i remember some girls at summer camp who were sophisticated and articulate beyond my 13- or 14-year-old imaginings. i mean, i was basically still eating my boogers at that point.

who, had no idea I Love Style existed much less that I posted on it. oh well.

Surprised me appearing on Parenthood.

so i guess shes graduating from high school atm?

She just turned 18 the other day, so prob.

On the 21st. We share the same B-Day, I'm old enough to be her Mom.

New profile:

http://nymag.com/thecut/2014/08/tavi-gevinson-from-fashion-to-broadway.html

Toward the end of the play’s run at Steppenwolf, Lonergan flew to Chicago to check in on his work. After the show, Cera and Gevinson joined him for dinner. “It’s just so refreshing to see a pretty young woman order cheese,” Lonergan says of Tavi. Over all that cheese, Lonergan and Gevinson got into an argument about Beyoncé that Cera summed up as, Is Beyoncé the standard-bearer for mediocrity (Lonergan) or an important cultural figure (Gevinson)? “She likes to argue and so do I,” says Lonergan, “and she’s really smart and so am I, so you end up having these discussions about interesting and broad-ranging topics. But then I find it very charming that she’ll go from mentioning a talk she gave in Australia at 16 to complaining about ‘Why does my dad care if I go to bed late?’ Or how annoying it is that her best friend is in Costa Rica and she can’t text her.”

Wow, Lonergan sounds like kind of a dick

so refreshing to see a pretty young woman ordering cheese

just1n3 otm

agree
he sounds way out of touch and really irritating to argue with over dinner, however delicious

just1n3 otm

― sleeve, Monday, August 11, 2014 12:30 PM (49 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Ha. Lonergan was in the audience at the performance I saw. He looked sort of lonely. Love his work, though.

Love his work, though I respect & admire Tavi more, obv.

This looks like Miley doing a Tavi imitation:
http://instagram.com/p/rq87UFQzIa/?modal=true

so refreshing to see a pretty young woman ordering cheese

― cross over the mushroom circle (La Lechera), Monday, August 11, 2014 1:29 PM (5 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Several years ago we spoke with Scott Schuman of The Sartorialist and he said that because of your age – you were about 14 at the time – “it is like a five-year old Michael Jackson singing about love – to him they are just words.”

That young people don’t have valid thoughts about the world because they haven’t been alive long enough is sadly a very popular and, frankly, unoriginal sentiment. When I think about that time, I was just responding to the world around me. And I was perceptive enough that I felt like I could make connections to things in my life. I don’t think it was abstract. And I am basically skeptical of any adults who have those kinds of things to say about young people because it seems to always very transparently stem from fear and insecurity. And to be honest, the fact that he’s shorter than me in real life.

Last sentence is a bit cheap but otherwise tavi otm as usual

height-ist

OWNED

can i just

http://i.imgur.com/dQafkCp.jpg

who's that?

oh wait is that the sartorialist? he has a very large head for someone who is like 5' tall

http://i.imgur.com/dQafkCp.jpg

oops, that was supposed to be

http://i.imgur.com/qJHGKmJ.jpg

this child she does not feel the fashion blogging

the sartorialist visits pictureqsue khao phing kan:

http://www.007james.com/i/articles/top_10_villains/nick_nack.jpg

the sartorialist dude is a fucking dipshit but the idea that youth voices are not heard with piercing clarity across cultural life is kinda ridiculous

certain youth voices i should say

being heard and being taken seriously are different things tho which seems to me what tavi was getting at

isn't the desire to be taken seriously inherently adolescent tho? that is, the frustration of feeling misunderstood or marginalized (be it exurban juggalo or precocious blogger) is an animating force at that point. then you grow up and realize nothing matters and stop giving a fuck (or you get tiny suits and a camera and give condescending interviews to other tiny suited ppl).

adolescence is a 20th century fiction

OTM

sure but that encompasses every single living person

teens r good i stand with the teens

i am firmly anti-youth but tavi has never struck me as very youthful--isn't that why she's a big deal in the first place?

wat

i am so sick of TAVI i can't

i will literally pick a fight over TAVI if i am in the mood for it

i won't do it here i'm just sayin', it's happened, IRL

Oak Park > NYC as far as shaking things up.

http://nymag.com/thecut/2017/03/celebrity-sponcon-tavi-gevinson-advertises-her-own-address.html

“Our influencers will continue to create the same great content while enjoying their new homes and neighborhoods, and will be hosting special experiences open to our residents. We think it’s an exciting addition to our marketing efforts and a terrific amenity for tenants.”

seems, unsafe

yeah, like, she's a famous young woman, I'm going to go ahead and guess that there's at least one creep who is obsessed with her

David Shapiro zing

unless... she doesnt actually live there

My first thought was, "Hey, haven't people always known where famous New Yorkers live? I mean, everyone knew John and Yoko lived at...oh wait."

lol

Bumped the other thread before seeing this was more recent

Today is the last day of Rookie and this is my last Editor's Letter. Thank you for seven very special years. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️https://t.co/1iE7G7QESs

— Tavi Gevinson (@tavitulle) November 30, 2018

oh no! i love rookie. i guess the archive will live forever. can totally understand why she wouldn't want to do it forever.

what a fantastic publication, wish I'd kept up with it more

TS Rookie vs Sassy

the farewell is really great and sad

i guess the archive will live forever.

she says it'll stay up for a few months but "books are forever"

I would NOT want to revisit any of my blogs from when I was 13, but this is great: https://www.thecut.com/2019/09/tavi-gevinson-annotates-an-old-rookie-blog.html

Lol the Misshapes.

https://www.tavigevinson.world/video

omg her Elizabeth Holmes lol