Friday, September 17, 2010

Tavi

I definitely do not follow fashion but I do care about good writing/reporting and while this 14 year old kid Tavi Gevinson is all over the place now, after reading a New Yorker profile on her, I kinda get why people are so fascinated by her.
Not only does she have an unusually keen vocabulary, but she has this rare and wide understanding of culture that few young teens posses.
She injects references to 90s TV shows, 60s fashion ads, mythology, and advanced literature. Talking about her social life she said, “I go between a Daria mind-set and Atticus Finch.”
anyways, she made me excited about youth and even mildly interested in fashion for about 20 min, two things that don't often peak my interest. plus, her rap video to designer Rei Kawakubo is friggin adorable and hilarious. an intriguing little person she is.