Thank God for baby bloggers

I’ve spent the entire day on two blogs:  Tavi Gevinson’s Style Rookie and Brooke Kao’s the fashion void that is DC.  Both of these young women are teenagers.  Tavi is 13 and Brooke is 17, although their blogs started when they were even younger.  Some debate that girls this young shouldn’t be caught up in the storm of fashion (Tavi attended New York fashion week shows as well as after parties) and I have to say that I was cynical before I looked at the blogs themselves.

I understand adults disagreeing with such early fame and recognition for these girls, but thank god for them.  And I’ll tell you why.  For every awkward, beautiful girl who doesn’t think she is because she doesn’t look like the other girls in her class, for every young person who holds a passion for a subject inside of them and is afraid to express it, we need young people who are coming out simply as themselves.  The reason why these girls are being gifted with clothes from designers personally, and invited to events is because they’re a reminder to some of their own “geeky” childhood obsessions.

Fashion, which thrives on newness, is a subject that would be taken up by young people. Arguably, they are at they’re most creative because they are unhindered by adulthood restrictions (this goes with that…). As adults most of us just end up trying way too hard.  We forget that not everything has to be the finished product, and that some days we can leave the house in nothing more than an experiment (I mean that figuratively and literally).  And that is the beauty and draw behind what these girls are doing.  They’re having fun playing dress up!  If only we could schuck off our attempt at creating that feeling and just do it. 

Do I think these girls should leave home, and attend parties with drug addled celebs and hangers-on, unsupervised?  No.  Do I appreciate what they’re doing and understand why others do too? Yes.

Tags: Brooke Kao, Fashion Blogging, fashion rookie, Fashion Week, Tavi Gevinson, the fashion void that is DC

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