As someone that wears basic color t-shirts with a pocket, jeans with holes at the bottom of the legs and near worn out Reeboks, the Ghost is about as far away from fashionable as one can be. Hobos are nearly more fashionable than I am.
Not that I can’t appreciate fashion, mind you. I can watch Project Runway and have an opinion on what the designers work up. I just think a lot of celebrated stuff is a little on the silly side and is usually not meant for public consumption, but rather for the elite in Manhattan or Paris or for skinny-sick models that, if it weren’t for gravity, a stiff wind could shoot through a tree like the proverbial camel through a needle’s eye.
Anyways, I follow the blog of a certain young fellow named Spencer Tweedy and he has a friend named Tavi who, like I do, responds to his posts. Turns out, this young girl is also an acclaimed fashion blogger, having appeared on the cover of Pop magazine and featured in Vogue, coûte que coûte, Huffington Post, UK’s The Observer and, most recently, Time Out Chicago.
Gevinson’s blog, Style Rookie, dissects the latest in fashion, but also includes insight into her own life and her style. She shares with her readers not only what is right and wrong in current fashion (as well as being able to point out comparisons to lines from when she was a tot and before), but her drawings, musings on life, her personal style and even her own t-shirt design available through London’s Borders&Frontiers as well.
The blog is name checked by premiere fashionistas around the globe. And, with a loyal readership and now the foray into design, it would appear that Gevinson is at the beginning of a very rich and fulfilling career. One just hopes that this talented youngster isn’t corrupted by the scene or isn’t turned on by her adult followers. Gevinson is still a child after all and people need to make sure to be careful with their feedback. It’s a careful balancing act at this age – derision and unfair critiquing can sink an adult – it can destroy a child. However, too much praise and adulation can be perhaps as damaging to a youngster.
But for now, Gevinson’s accomplishments and talents are to be rejoiced. Making a mark in this world is a damn hard thing to do and to have earned the accolades that she has at this point in her life is quite a striking marker to have made. Continued good luck to Tavi and good wishes to a long and successful career, but most importantly, a happy childhood. You only get one.
