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

... 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

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