By the time Tavi Gevinson was 13 years old, she’d already become the patron saint of fashion bloggers. As the founder of Style Rookie, Gevinson was featured in The New York Times, had her Fashion Week diary published in Harper’s Bazaar, and served as a model/muse for Rodarte's clothing collaboration with Target. So when the time came for her bat mitzvah, it was only natural that she blogged about it for her nearly 30,000 daily readers. “Something else that was taking up a lot of time in preparation finally took place — my bat mitzvah. It was a great experience and pretty amazing celebrating with all these people I only see on occasion and separately, all at the same place,” Gevinson wrote at the time, along with sharing an excerpt from her bat mitzvah speech, which honored Comme des Garçons founder Rei Kawakubo. “I'M GETTING OLD, KIDS. I DID JUST CHANT THE TORAH, AFTER ALL!”
I always told my daughter that being the weird kid in school wasn't so bad. Look how she turned up. I loved the moneybox story -it was hysterical.