Picture: AMIEE MAI. 15, PHOTOGRAPHY AND ART STUDENT. VIA LOOKBOOK.NU.
BECAUSE WHEN I WAS 15 I LOOKED LIKE A WEIRDO BUT SHE HAS FASHION LOOKS TO KILL.
The youth scene in fashion right now is easily one of the best thing going on. I am captured and utterly intrigued. They have won me over with their innocent looks and startlingly groundbreaking ideas. I feel like there’s a little suburb in America or perhaps Norway where all the kids smoke roll up fags and sit gloriously dressed up in hazy sunlight and drink water full of fashion magic which makes them what they are. In reality I have no such excuse so I feel it’s time I put my head to paper, fabric and skin and start making my wildest dreams come to life. So here’s to some of my favourite young ones who have shamed me into getting my act together but denying my age.
Jane Aldridge [seaofshoes.com] has been shaming me for years. Her style becomes more defined yet more radical every year. If you could cut up originality, get a big smacking of style, add a smudge of jaw dropping designer shoes and glue it together in an incredibly eclectic manner with a personality prit-stick then you would have a Jane collage.
Tavi [thestylerookie.com] this girl leaves me lost for words. She is downright astounding. And she’s 13.
No not 13ft tall or 13hours away from defeating Mt Everest (though they almost seem more believable) she is 13 years old. And holey moley this kid is wicked talented!
I discovered her when she hit the press and immediately loved her style though I'm still slightly awestruck. Her blog and work is intellegent and mature and very original. Young people have so much power to change the world and speak out to people and that’s what fashion is all about.
Johnny Davidsson [lookbook.nu/user/4389-Johnny-D]
One of my favourites on LookBook. Where music and fashion merge and have extremely stylish love child. Though I think he's actually only a little younger than me. Either way this in a definitive example of personality being screamed out to the world through clothing, I looked at him and thought music, and not because he looks like every other musician but because he doesn’t.
P.S When I grow up I want to live somewhere called Strömstad!
Actually you just have to open LookBook.nu and be astounded by raw talent from all ages. Love love love it.
In the grand scheme of thing age is meaningless, because we all have a long way to go and it’s not when we start the expedition but who we become. But in the lowly scheme of things I could still get on the train for a half fair (15 years or younger) until a year ago. That makes me 16 now. So I’m going with it.
-Trixie xx
My mother has left me little slices of each cupcake so I get to try each one. Aint she a darling?! Perfect late night supper! ♥ ♥ ♥
