Tavi for BlackBook

She may have been a bit more low profile recently, but the young adolescent Tavi Gevinson, continues nonetheless to fascinate the fashion world. The magazine BlackBook recently readily entrusted her with a fashion editorial in its next edition for September.

Pushed into the spotlights in 2009 thanks to her blog, Style Rookie (where she can be seen sporting unusual and offbeat ensembles), Tavi has since been shot to the stars, coming closer to her role models, from Marc Jacobs to Karl Lagerfeld and Yohji Yamamoto. In the beginning, everything pointed to an ephemeral infatuation with this puny tomboy with the severe face; today, the opposite seems to be the case...

What began as overexposure - she recently made the cover of Love and is fodder for the gossip columns writing on the latest fashion weeks - became a less superficial interest, enabling her to go from being a plaything for designers needing a novelty to that of a little gifted fashion player.

The press is anxiously waiting for this mini-Wintour to make a faux pas (in order to take their revenge on the one who was a bit too invasive during the last Dior haute couture show in January), yet Tavi continues faultlessly down her path. Whether by showing her cutting and hypnotic serious side in the proofs of Pop magazine, by landing an appointment with the very inaccessible Rei Kawakubo, or by producing a fashion editorial worthy of the name for the magazine BlackBook, Tavi continues to surprise, manifesting a talent that is becoming unquestionable.

Once alone in the office with the clothes put at her disposition were deposited, the young Tavi had no problem coming up with a dozen or so looks whose maturity, accuracy and intuition left the designers supervising the operation stunned. They could not understand how a 13-year-old girl, more geek than fashionista, could have developed such a precise perception of l'air du temps.

Far from folding under the weight of fashion's changing fads, the legend of this funny little character continues to grow in weight and mystery.