Tavi: Karl Lagerfeld Was Nice, His Eyes Weren't Lasers

Tavi, the thirteen year old style blogger, has been a busy lately, attending Paris's Haute Couture shows (and forcing reporters to watch them through her hat), but she found some time to talk to The Fashion Informer about her favorite fashion or fashion week memory thus far:

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. Oh my God, that was the most name-droppy sentence ever. I feel d-baggy but it answers the question. And being in North Dakota with the Mulleavy sisters was pretty fun but it didn't feel really fashion-y because we were in such a relaxed setting and everything.

She also reminisced about her gradual love affair with fashion:

[The Comme des Garcons fall 2009] collection made me cry, and I was just seeing it online. I finally understood how emotion could come from design. It's not like I cried in a SO BEAUTIFUL! way (though it was beautiful), it was just because there was something about my interpretation of the collection that seemed to be, for some reason, very personal for me.

And she mused about her idea of a perfect day:

A perfect daily day would be a Saturday. Watching a movie in bed in the morning, then making collages and a zine, then rehearsal for a play, then record shopping with a friend, then watching more movies, I guess. That is one I would like to happen a lot, like Groundhog Day. A perfect day that happens once would probably be a big get-together with my heroes and idols and favorite people, if I didn't faint.

We hope we're invited!

Comments

[Dottedvoile]

10:06 PM on 02/15/2010

Tavi has a good head on her shoulders. She's her own person, speaks and writes well. At least she isn't prancing around like miley cyrus. She's what a 13 year old should be, except she's actually living out her dreams.

[eastjame]

12:14 AM on 02/09/2010

why would anyone listen to a 13 year old?

[Lozange]

09:15 PM on 02/08/2010

[Pleneras]

04:57 PM on 02/07/2010

Oh please this child needs a real life. Horrific hat.

[rivergirl301]

04:46 PM on 02/07/2010

I don't get the hat, but I can live with that. But can someone please explain the glasses to me?

[SukiTheCat]

10:32 AM on 02/07/2010

Sophia Petrillo incarnate?

[KIVPossum]

08:21 AM on 02/07/2010

Isn't there some requirement about 13 years old kids going to school?

[Tech88]

12:23 AM on 02/07/2010

The girl look like she is 40, please back to do some young girl thing.

[GrownupStewie]

10:46 PM on 02/06/2010

she knows nothing about fashion, she gets her taste from coffee house hipsters and woman who drown themselves in high end labels...

lagerfeld is over, his designs are dated....this girl needs to be in school....i think the only reason she is famous is because of her age, and the fact that her parents let her jet around the world without going to school where she can build a healthy social life that is not around adults who only see and use her as some sort of sideshow attraction, because when her coolness fades nobody will care about her. Its sad because when she grows up she will be unaccepted by her the peers in her age group because all of her "friends" will be much older. If she goes to HS she will be an outcast because most people will be jealous that she got to go to paris fashion week and lived this glamorous life and they didnt. I know how this works, my parents had a small chateau just outside of paris when I was growing up and We would go every summer and christmas break and I used to always shop in paris for my school clothes. I became an outcast because everything thought I was stuck up, this girl will have the same issue.

[mygirlcrush]

09:19 PM on 02/06/2010

Tavi is too precocious ... borders irrating, I think it is because she doesn't have enthusiasm that someone her age would.

If anyone wants to be a fashion week insider over New York fashion week: http://girlcrushoftheday.blogspot.com/2010/02/new-york-fashion-week-contest.html

[jpeters100]

10:41 AM on 02/06/2010

I'm sure I'll get flak for this, but the kid gets on my nerves. JMHO

[UhOh1]

10:19 AM on 02/06/2010

at first, i wanted to say "are you kidding me?" b/c it seems silly, but then i realized she's doing something she (seemingly) likes doing and she's onto something that will lead her further in life, instead of doing the other crap teens do at this age. i'm worried with my niece's lack of interest in school she may never go to college and may end up working at walmart for the rest of her life b/c she doesn't have the foresight to realize now that you have think ahead and not live so in the moment.

[BabaLou7]

09:32 PM on 02/06/2010

If she's not interested in school, is anyone taking her by the hand and developing her by exposing her to things that would stir her passions? This young kid may annoy some of you here, but I admire her for finding excitement in the world around her, and for her bravery in exhibiting her young talents.

[muscleboundH]

04:02 AM on 02/06/2010

Hooray for Tavi! She's lucky to know her passion so early in life. I hope we see some great things from her in the coming years.

[Mahi Joe]

09:55 AM on 02/06/2010

She is certainly a good role model for her peer group.

[MAragon]

11:36 PM on 02/05/2010

Isn't she a bit young to look so blase?

[BabaLou7]

09:33 PM on 02/06/2010

It's that "fashion patina--" she's studied it and has donned it...cute.

[gracie99]

09:48 AM on 02/08/2010

Looks more like a combination of sour and snooty. Hope it's just a phase.

[stylembe]

06:10 PM on 02/05/2010

Tavi needs to check out the incredible creations by Lamija Suljevic.

http://stylembe.wordpress.com/2010/02/02/lamija-suljevic/