Cool Points Tavi
Sunday, August 15th, 2010
via thestylenotebook.com
for Tavi of Style Rookie at her recent Idea City talk. 14 years old, and already giving speeches. She was sweetly nervous, but still articulate for a young lady of her years– check her speech out HERE.
Some takeaways:
Sassy magazine
Does counterculture still exist with the real-time of the Internet picking things up and spreading things around?
Is there an underdog, when people can find others they relate to over the net?
Fashion as dressing for fun, for yourself, rather than impressing a boy or make other girls jealous.
A call for teen girls to speak up and participate!
Wise, Tavi is. What an inspirational being. There is an urge to deface her power with scowls of jealousy– rotten envy– but that just shows how successful she is. Who cares about how other people dress? Being pointlessly critical and snarky reveals your own weakness and insecurities. Being fashionable should be about positive appreciation for the aesthetic– not a competition of brand names, designers, or “fads”. Besides, things from each era cycles and recycles; being the mainstream definition of “unfashionable” can just make you way cool and avant garde.
Graceee
