Tavi Gevinson mania continues. The official shit storm descended during Paris Fashion Week, when the 13-year-old surfaced in the front row at Dior wearing an over-sized bow hat, and a journalist from Grazia took issue with the view-blocking choice in chapeau. Meanwhile, acclaimed fashion scribe Sarah Mower has just spoken out about her own ax to grind with Gevinson's father for letting the middle school student cut class in order to attend couture collection presentations.
Animosity aside, the Business of Fashion makes an interesting point in reacting to Mower's aforementioned piece in the Independent. "Not one blogger was directly quoted to provide comment on the other side of the story," writes Imran Amed, founder of BOF. "It would be a far more productive debate if... journalists and editors actually engaged bloggers in a genuine dialogue about the state of the industry and the ways in which social media can make fashion a more participative industry," Helene Le Blanc of Luxe Chronicles says. Amen.
As for Gevinson herself? It's the subject of a recent profile in the Fashion Informer. Perhaps the most interesting musing is Gevinson on her most memorable fashion experience to date: "Probably meeting Rei Kawakubo, or meeting Karl Lagerfeld and him saying some very nice things and also I could SEE HIS EYES (there were no lasers), or interviewing John Galliano, or meeting Stephen Jones and him giving me a hat and saying its knocking-people-in-the-face abilities were like old Dior dresses that would knock everyone's ashtrays over when the girls in them would spin," she says. Hate the girl for her immediate insider access? Don't worry, she's not taking herself too seriously just yet. "Oh my God, that was the most name-droppy sentence ever. I feel d-baggy but it answers the question."


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