The Mini Style Maven Will Work With Jane Pratt

Tavi Gevinson - the Style Rookie and arguably the most recognizable of the fashion bloggers is working on a magazine for wallflowery teenage girls.

She will be teaming up Jane Pratt, the woman who has brought us Sassy and Jane.

On her blog, Tavi writes:

Of course it won't be Sassy (or the rebirth of Sassy, or Sassy 2.0) and nor do we want it to be. For one, you can't try to recreate something that good. For another, while I can read old issues of Sassy and relate, the world has changed a bit in the past 15 or so years, and that whole Internet thing happened, and this world calls for something different. Something that will use Sassy as a point of reference for the whole teen-magazine-that-doesn't-suck thing, and something in which Jane Pratt will take part, but something that is not trying to recreate the other something a bunch of us loved and don't want to see copied.

Who better to know what's going on the minds of today's average teen girl than a...not so...average... teen girl?

It's at this point I feel like I've come to Robert Frost's two roads diverging.

On the one hand, there's the opportunity to be ecstatically happy for the high schooler-cum-fashion guru. She's living her dream, who could fault her that? There are thousands of people years and decades older than her who never had or never will have the chance to do something as compelling and creative. Most career writers can only dream of that kind of platform.

On the other hand, is it not a little much? She's only 13. She can't drink when she goes to events, she shouldn't be allowed in clubs to celebrate the after parties, and she should probably be hitting the sack around 11 if she plans on getting up for school the next day.

What I'm getting at... teenagers trying to live like grownups and doing a fine job of ruining their lives while they're at it. We all know howLindsay Lohan turned out. The great Miley debate still rages on. Demi Lovato is apparently the reigning coke queen. And lest we forget all of Britany's tomfoolery. It has been Hollywood history that young up-and-comers crash and burn.

Of course this is not true of all child stars - (Dakota Fanning, Haley Joel Osment, Hilary Duff) and it's not too often we hear of kids in other industries, but if the Lifetime specials and TV movies about genius kids in college have taught me anything, it's that making a kid grow up before they're ready can only have dire consequences.

I understand looking for the next craze, the newest thing, but is there ever a line? And when are we crossing it? Why can't we, as adults, who complain that kids are growing up way to fast, stop trying to force kids to grow up to fast to suit our own financial devices?

At any rate, I'm definitely hoping that Tavi can prove to be the exception as her style star continues to rise.But, knowing how fickle the fashion world can be, here's hoping she doesn't end up as yesterday's trend.

Hilary Lauren Fox
		About the author:
		Sometimes she's a redhead, sometimes she's a blonde. Some days it's H&M, and on other days, it's Chanel. What ever the mood, she is a woman who is passionate about the arts, fashion and social media. Born in Toronto, Hilary Lauren Fox is an only child to artist parents - mom was an illustrator and pattern maker, dad was a painter.  Rather then studying the arts as her parents hoped for, Hilary opted for a degree in psychology with dreams of working in a clinical setting. But after graduating she realized that the apple doesn't fall far from the tree and that the arts was in her blood, applying her education within the art and fashion world.
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