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Style Rookie

Tavi Gevinson is not like most high school girls. She picks out her own clothes and doesn’t dress like the other girls at school.

Tavi has many of her own ideas about fashion, and she expresses them on her blog, Style Rookie.

She often posts pictures from fashion shows and her own daily outfits. Tavi started her blog when she was in middle school. Her fashion choices and opinions were very good.

At first, many people thought a professional wrote it. Her blog got popular very quickly. After only eight months of writing Style Rookie, Tavi started to get messages from some of her favorite designers.

Tavi’s mother is an artist and her father is an English teacher. They didn’t know about the blog until The New York Times asked to do an interview. Now, Tavi’s father goes with her to fashion events around the world.

Since she appeared in the newspaper, Tavi’s fame has grown. In 2010, Tavi designed her own T-shirt with a fashion company.

She’s also written stories for fashion magazines. In that same year she was the guest of famous designers at fashion events in New York, Paris, and Japan.

People all around the fashion world now take Tavi seriously. What does Tavi want to do when she grows up? She’s already doing it!