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13 year-old blogger Tavi immortalized on a Japanese t-shirt

13 year-old blogger Tavi immortalized on a Japanese t-shirt

Tavi Gevinson -- the jetsetting junior high style blogger -- is the star of a new range of t-shirts and bags from Japanese select shop Beams
Tavi Gevinson Beams T-shirtWhen we were Tavi's age, the only way to get our picture on a t-shirt was to get it lazer printed at the mall.

13 year-old fashion blogger Tavi Gevinson of blog Style Rookie may be a jetsetting VIP of the international fashion circuit, but of course, like all good Western celebrities, she is even bigger in Japan. It's not like her blog has many Japanese readers, but who needs readers when select shop Beams has immortalized this Mini-Menkes for the ages with a new collection of T-shirts.

Going on sale in mid-March, the "Tavi Gevinson meets museum neu x Beams" collection offers t-shirts for both men and women (¥6,930) as well as a t-shirt dress (¥7,980) and tote bags (¥5,040).

The guys at Museum Neu -- a Japanese art and culture collective -- are the ones most responsible for the entire project, taking Jamie Morgan's photographs of Tavi on the cover of "Pop Magazine" as the art for the items.

Will this new-found t-shirt fame undermine Tavi's lovable underdog charm? Is wearing the Tavi t-shirt a celebration of our collective awkward teenage years or aspirational capitulation to the world's youngest fashion god? Pick up the t-shirt from Beams and decide yourself -- before, of course, selling it to the hungry masses in the West on Ebay.

W. David Marx was CNNGo's initial Tokyo City Editor. His writing has also appeared in magazines such as GQ, Brutus, Weekly Diamond, and Nylon, as well as his web joural Néojaponisme.
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