Tavi Talks Generation Y: 'We're Over Trends In Two Seconds'

StyleList.com:

The 14 year-old known-by-first-name-only fashion blogger was a featured speaker at the L2 Generation Next Forum in New York today, where the precocious teenager headlined alongside CEOs, presidents, publishers and even a U.S. State Department head.

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[thentheresmaude]

04:59 AM on 05/21/2010

That's a damn shame...Yes Gen Y and their 2 second trends will fill up what's left of the world's landfills w/crap plastic shoes & fugly vegan pleather apparel. Way to be the voice of the Green Generation! Isn't there a parable about blindly following a child's lead?
As if predicting trends makes you a sartorial savant. Lesson 1 in trend/color forecasting-every yr change your color palette slightly to save your co money; Lesson 2 - every 2 yrs change colors to the exact opposite on the color wheel of past yrs - it actually fool's everyone to think the fashion is all brand new; and the same w/hemlines, if they were high, then 2 yrs later they will be low, repeat ad nauseum; Lesson 3- every decade copies something from 2 decades earlier, the 70s fetish-sized the 50s, the 80s the 60s, the 90s the 70s, the noughties the 80s, and now it's back to 90s grunge mixed with dicey bits from the 80s. Its all been done to death and just because she's practically a zygote, doesn't put her anymore ahead of the curve then anybody else. She just has better PR.
I'd rather see precocious girls her age defacing bathroom stalls, & smoking & drinking, rather than successfully hypnotizing a bunch of zombied middle aged fashionistas to fall under her naive 14 yr old prognostications. Utter BS. The day I take a 14 yr old's fashion advice will be a cold day in hell.

[Begbie]

04:34 PM on 05/18/2010

One day, she and her generation will have to get a job. Can't blog forever because nobody cares for more than two seconds.

[LeftRightLeftRight]

10:04 AM on 05/18/2010

Seems quite a few people don't like this girl or her look.

Personally, I think it is good that she isn't just another carbon copy of some MTV celebrity. It's refreshing that she found her own style, and it is also refreshing that she doesn't seem to be bothered by people who don't like it.

I think she has the potential to go far in the fashion media scene someday.

[ladydragon]

08:55 AM on 05/18/2010

Tavi: you are over fashion trends in seconds because you have the attention span of a teetsy fly. Girl! take your butt to school, you look ridiculous; when you should be looking like the little girl that you are. Nobody cares what you think, at least no adult in their right mind.

[MIMom]

07:00 PM on 05/17/2010

Who? Where does society FIND these people? And why do I give two figs what she thinks?

[KIVPossum]

03:25 AM on 05/18/2010

HP is in love with the girl. We see more of her than her teachers

[Blues02]

06:44 PM on 05/17/2010

After reading her blog entry on Terry Richardson I cannot help but like her.

[GrizzlyBowman]

03:42 PM on 05/17/2010

Hopefully the young granny trend is already over.

[pebblesvanpeebles]

05:02 PM on 05/17/2010

baaahahaaa

[Sunflo]

05:44 AM on 05/18/2010

lol! Couldn't have said it better.

[ATCall]

03:29 PM on 05/17/2010

She speaks for a much smaller group than she seems to think- go to any jr/sr hi, the "fashion clique" is ALWAYS a minority, not what "everybody" wants to belong to, that's just her age showing; Tavi doesn't seem to have gotten over "The Devil Wears Prada" in 2 seconds, she's still stuck on it for 1/4 of her life. Fashion is mostly followers looking for a leader instead of originals.

[OverIt]

02:52 PM on 05/17/2010

Generation ADH --- uh --- something!

[VanTroi]

01:48 PM on 05/17/2010

She looks like a hipster, I really can not stand them.

[SukiTheCat]

01:57 PM on 05/17/2010

I was wondering what it was about her that I could not stand

[cmugs]

02:17 PM on 05/17/2010

don't just judge her on her looks!!! thats really horrible. go read her blog. its good stuff. much better than 99% of the the "articles" on this website.

[Graceless]

05:18 AM on 05/19/2010

Her business is fashion. That actually makes the hipster comment extremely relevant.

[V]

01:30 PM on 05/17/2010

Great way to look 70 at 14.

[MIMom]

07:01 PM on 05/17/2010

Yeah, that's a style I want to emulate.