Meet Caroline Torem Craig. She is the MOST STYLISH PERSON at the recent New York Fashion Week or so claims fashion blogger Tavi Gevinson who met this party/backstage photographer at Alexander Wang.
Stylish? She looks like a frumpy homeless vagrant gypsie. The aunties at Teck Ghee Wet Market near my place have more style if you ask me!
Tavi Gevinson was trying to make a point on how pompous the fashion industry is and that to dress like a vagrant is so very “pure - something often lost in the fog of Fashion Week”.
Oh.My.God. This little girl now wants to be a fashion philosopher. Give.Me.A.Break.
For those who don’t know, Tavi Gevinson (not her real name, btw) is a 13 year old fashion blogger who began her blog, “Style Rookie” on March 2008 when she was just 11.
The most recent photo of Tavi Gevinson taken during NYFW.
She has been regularly been referred to as the “frontline of fashion” and is claimed to be a muse for many fashion designers.
Excuse me while I barf.
Frontline of fashion?! She’s only 13 and she dyes her hair grey!? She wears granny glasses and is fond of wearing hedious headgear! (Only Sarah Jessica Parker can get away with hedious headgear and Tavi Gevinson is not even close to the ranks of SJP) And her clothes don’t match! They aren’t even complimentary and they look silly! How can she be heralded as a fashionista?!
Leopard prints and polka dots combo? You gotta be kidding me.
Okay, maybe I am biased cos I much prefer the minimalist clean lines in clothes and fashion but still how can this be considered pret-a-porter? Would you wear what she’s wearing, out? Seriously. Hell, I wouldn’t call her style as haute couture either! They are so not! Only Donatella Versace can pull off leopard prints. And maybe Ris Low. And the Indonesian and Italian Tai-Tais. But not the ordinary laywoman.
Well okaaay.. Tavi Gevinson is NOT any ordinary woman. She is just a little girl – who probably has not even gotten her period yet.
Look! Just look! (photos courtesy of google images):
Circ de Soleil, anyone?
Senile senior citizen on the loose! Someone call the old folks home! Quick!
Aren’t you a bit too young to wear slutty heels? The shoes are not even proportionate to your frame! I bet you can’t even walk properly in them! And what’s that furry sea urchin doing on your head?
Didn’t you mama teach you not to play dress-up in table-cloth? And what’s that blue furball growing on your head?!
Princess gone wrong. You are fond of cultivating furry items on your head, aren’t you?
Terrible mix of texture and colours.
Alice in Wonderland gone all wrong in a Dior show.
To dress whimsical (think Jean Paul Gaultier, Alexander McQueen and Betsy Johnson) is one thing but ending up looking plain ridiculous in ill-fitting clothes is another! Tavi Gevinson looks like she has raided her mother’s grandmother’s wardrobe! And it doesn’t help that she looks juvenile. Hell, what am I on about. She IS a juvenile! I wouldn’t be surprised Tavi Gevinson regards the Swiss Army Guards of the Vatican City as inspiration.
This is what I think from reading bits of her blog. She just wants to be unconforming and it is so obvious that she seeks to defy stereotypes through dying her hair grey, dressing like a senior citizen (I bet The Curious Case of Benjamin Button must be her favourite movie), wearing OTT attention seeking accessories which she probably stole from the local circus clowns.
I might be able to take her seriously if she was older but for now, I see her as a miserable sad little girl who has grown up too fast. And the media? Ohh the media – this little girl obviously sets tongues wagging and what better way than to feature her constantly and rake up the readership stats?
I can’t say I hate her. Hate is too harsh a word. I pity her. She tries too hard which makes it even more disgusting.
Dear Tavi, if you are reading this darling, do get yourself a normal childhood (I’m sure I am not the only one who have said this to you).
Hilarious!!!
She’s like Ugly Betty! Yuekk!
If she was my daughter I won’t ever let her leave the house cos she’s such an embarrassment!
It’s not about being ugly – she’s only 13! and she has yet to blossom! Young children should just remain as that – young children! Not some frumpy mak-nenek (although most female kids are that – that’s why I can’t stand kids). Children should not grow up too fast. She has a whole lifetime to be an old hag with grey hair. She should just enjoy her youth!
if she’s updating her blog, dolling herself up in her mom’s clothes & attending fashion shows, where does she find the time to attend school & finish up her homework?
she could have just been a girl with a keen interest in fashion injecting her 2 cents worth, but to me the sad thing is, the fashion industry & media’s actually listening.
You speak the truth!! My sentiments exactly!! Keep posting!
Hilarious and ridiculous. Add support hose, smear her lipstick, and put her in depends………..and you’ve got yourself a real live grandma.
Oh well, it’s like a dog that barks all night long—don’t blame the dog, blame the dog’s owners. What flakes.
I have to agree. When I was her age I was obsessed with going on style.com and researching all there was to know about Comme des Garcons and Junya Watanabe, but when I was her age blogging didn’t even really exist. If she were 30, no one would give a shit, but because she is a pre-pubescent Justin Beiber look-alike and everyone is so eager to glom onto novelty, she has become famous. Society is a sad and unfortunate stupid thing. We give people from the Jersey Shore $10,000 per episode, while people in the Peace Corps make dirt. She strikes me as the bullshit hipster artist, which I am over.
Sarah Jessica Parker is really very very beautiful specially during her younger years ~-`
I absolutely agree with this post. I’ve wonder myself how the hell she ever got famous with her hideous grandmother wardrobe. Dressing in homeless garb certainly is not stylish nor is it attractive. Personally, she probably skyrocketed to fame because of her age. And her writing is questionable. What 13-year-old has that much knowledge of vintage and proper prose? Seriously. I think she’s trying too hard to break fashion boundaries which has resulted in the horrible fashion garbage we are starting to see on the runway and even in the clothing stores themselves.
I really don’t get it either… I mean, we all have our own style but for the media to call her everything short of “Fashion Icon” is ridiculous! Even if Angelina Jolie went down the red carpet in anything Tavi wears, she’d still look frumpy and granny and end up on the “Red Carpet Don’t” list. Ugh. I don’t get it.
On the other hand, (as I’ve just been to Tavi’s blog) I like her writing style and her distinct “voice”. Maybe she has a future there. But style muse? Enlighten me.
“What 13-year-old has that much knowledge of vintage and proper prose? Seriously. I think she’s trying too hard.”
Did it ever occur to you that perhaps she is a mature and intelligent teenager? I don’t understand why a “normal childhood” has to include being unaware of your dreams and even interests, dressing like she might as an adult but less gray, and having nothing to do with anything society doesn’t see as ‘common’ or ‘normal’?
I think from a high-fashion point of view, Tavi is wonderful. She looks like she belongs on a runway. She is also an outstanding writer with an original voice and good ideas. From a Forever 21 point of view, she looks like a clown. To decide whether she is fashionable, you must decide this: which one is real fashion?
Is a random teenager in a tee shirt and jeans more fashionable- one who probably put no thought into her outfit, maybe just threw it on or copied a celebrity? Tavi, whether you like it or not, retains the same style, the same voice of her clothing. You know she has thought about what she is wearing and is wearing it for a reason, and even if you don’t like it, she IS breaking fashion boundaries. Every outfit she wears is completely different, but they all have the same tone, the same ideas, the same STYLE. This is because she is aware of what she is wearing. The “Tavi Style”, if it caught on, would be very easy to re-create because she makes her own rules, and she makes them clearly. Like I said before, she has a reason when she puts something on. She has inspiration posts on her blog because she is inspired. She creates moodboards because she has the ability to portray her feelings through visual art, usually in the form of fashion.
Tavi Gevinson is NOT a style rookie. She invented her OWN definition of style and made it spectacular. She inspired me to blog and create. I never cared about fashion until I found out about her.
By the way, she didn’t dye her hair gray. She dyed her hair a very light powder blue and sometimes the lighting can make it look gray.
Erm, okay Ruby. Whatever rocks your socks
Haha, sorry for that little rant. It’s just that Tavi’s blog and her style is very important to me and I thought you were being a little harsh. And I’m sorry for misquoting you, I’ll make that clear on my blog now.
And you needn’t worry, my goal with that comment wasn’t exactly to boost your ratings. I apologize that my “miserable 3000″ isn’t sufficient.
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I found myself very angry with your post actually.I don’t want to degrade you,or take personal points against you…but the way you’ve articulated your argument here is repulsive. Most of your comments are childish and mean “I bet she hasn’t even had her period yet” “Didn’t you mama teach you not to play dress-up in table-cloth?” “Excuse me while I barf” ect. Those sort of comments really degrade your argument against her,making you look foolish.
I can understand how some people may look at her style and think,”no way would I wear that” (though personally,I would wear her outfits)-and in some ways I think that is what you were trying to convey in your argument. Yet,style is subjective.Some people will like her style,others wont-however,even if you don’t like a persons style doesn’t mean you have the right to slaughter them. You can atleast appreciatte that she writes with intelligence,and has an interest in the clothing she wears. And her age shouldn’t be taken into account…In fact because of her age she is constantly evolving and has a interesting perspective of fashion,that may not come from an older blogger. She is relatable to her audience of mainly teenagers.
I also disagree with not only the post,but many of these comments.
Anyways,I don’t want to start an internet rant and I believe ruby above as covered all the points correctly enough.I know I most likely wont change your perspective…
Indeed my darling. To each her own
As I said in one of my comments earlier I dont hate Tavi. I feel that she was trying too hard to act like a grown up (but then again many teens and children do that it’s nothing new). People change and so do their perspectives, priorities and style and they do “grow up” eventually. I dont read her blog and if she has indeed evolved in whichever way that I can only guess, then good for her 
If she hasnt, then .. well.. *shrugs shoulders*
Fashion and style is about reinventing oneself isnt it? I dont have that – I prefer to play safe with minimalistic clean “boring” conventional stuff. I am not experimental and even if I am, I wouldnt wear ill-fitting clothes. I’ll leave that to your own interpretation. And I’d wear clothes appropriate to my age. I’m 31 – I wouldnt dream of wearing something just to look 2 decades younger. Or older for that matter.
Have a nice day ahead, love xx
Your view seems rather- harsh.
I think it’s great that someone so ‘juvenile’ can contribute to the fashion industry. Fresh ideas which many adults are blinded from, due to adherence towards the current ‘style’. She’s too young to have been influenced by, perhaps, polluting convention.
I do agree that the outfits you’ve ‘cleverly’ included on here look particularly hideous. However I’ve just visited her blog and I find your brash opinion quite cruel.
Take her outfits with a pinch of salt. They must be head over heels for some reason.
Next time be a little more forgiving with your interesting evaluation, and less childish….. you know ‘barf’?
You know what, I agree with you. She is beyond convention and I have to give her credit for that
I barf at all cheese and anything else that is lactose. I barf at Paris Hilton too. If you think that is childish, you are entitled to your own opinion, as I 
Thank you for your comment anyways 
PS: Oh, I didnt purposely select those photos. See, what I did was click on google images and these photos popped up (this blog entry was written more than a year ago, mind you). It didnt take me long to just repost the first few photos that appeared to this blog.
I completely agree she started off so cute and innocent at the start of the blog now she looks like a frumpy homeless old lady mess. I honestly would not call her fashionable in the slightest & I would never take fashion tips from someone who dresses like a 90year old blind woman. I see no fashion in what she wears she tries far too hard to be ‘different’ ‘quirky’ & ‘interesting’ and fails miserably