Tavi Gevinson | 60 facts about the fashion blogger and actress

Tavi Gevinson is a famous actress, who is going to star among others to the reboot of Gossip Girl, that is about to premiere on HBO Max soon.

Let’s find out more about her!

1. Tavi Gevinson was born on April 21st 1996.
2. Her zodiac sign is Taurus.
3. She is an American writer, magazine editor, and actress.
4. She came to public attention at the age of 12 due to her fashion blog Style Rookie.
5. By the age of 15, she had shifted her focus to pop culture and feminist discussion.
6. Gevinson was the founder and editor-in-chief of the online magazine Rookie, aimed primarily at teenage girls.
7. Gevinson was born in Chicago, Illinois.
8. She was raised in the suburban town of Oak Park, Illinois.
9. Her father, Steve Gevinson, is a retired English high school teacher.
10. Her mother, Berit Engen, is a weaver and part-time Hebrew instructor.
11. Her mother grew up in Oslo, Norway.
12. Gevinson’s father was born to an Orthodox Jewish family, while her mother, who was raised Lutheran, converted to Judaism in 2001.
13. Gevinson and her two older sisters, Rivkah and Miriam, were raised in the Jewish faith; she had a Bat Mitzvah ceremony.
14. Gevinson was educated at Oak Park and River Forest High School in Illinois.
15. Gevinson started a fashion blog, Style Rookie, in 2008.
16. The blog, featuring photos of the 11-year-old in distinctive outfits and her commentary on the latest fashion trends, began drawing nearly 30,000 readers each day.
17. Her father “wasn’t terribly interested” in her new hobby until she asked for his permission to be interviewed by The New York Times for an article about young bloggers.
18. Because of the blog’s success, Gevinson was invited to attend New York Fashion Week and Paris Fashion Week.
19. She made overseas fashion-related trips to Tokyo and Antwerp, funded by Pop magazine, and was commissioned to write articles for Harper’s Bazaar and Barneys.com.
20. She styled a shoot for BlackBook magazine.
21. Also she acted as a muse and model for Rodarte’s clothing line at Target stores.
22. She partnered with Borders&Frontiers to design and sell her own T-shirt.
23. In 2010, she spoke at a marketing conference in New York and at Idea City, a Canadian version of the TED conference.
24. There was a backlash to Gevinson’s early success in the fashion industry.
25. New York magazine questioned whether it was possible for Gevinson to write her blog without “some help from a mom or older sister”.
26. Sarah Mower of The Daily Telegraph, while conceding that Gevinson had a “truly independent, original voice”, criticized her father for taking her out of school “to go to haute couture shows … It’s hard to imagine a kid being able to come back down to reality.”
27. A Grazia fashion editor complained on Twitter that a large bow Gevinson wore had blocked her view of a runway during fashion week.
28. Anne Slowey of Elle felt her success was “gimmicky” and commented, “She’s been thirteen for, like, the last four years.”
29. Gevinson later remarked: “A lot of people on the Internet have a problem with a young person doing well. I felt like there were people who were [at fashion week] because of their name, their money or their family, and I didn’t have any of those things.
30. In early 2011, Gevinson decided to stop writing primarily about fashion
31. Her personal style also became less outlandis
32. In the fall of 2011, at the age of 15, Gevinson founded Rookie magazine.
33. The site was originally conceived of as a joint venture with Jane Pratt, but Gevinson ultimately decided to maintain sole ownership.
34. Ira Glass acted as a mentor figure to Gevinson.
35. The website focused on issues impacting teenage girls and was written mainly by teenage girls. It also featured guest contributors.
36. A one-off print edition of the magazine, Rookie Yearbook One, was published by Drawn & Quarterly in 2012.
37. She is also a contributing editor at Garage magazine.
38. In November 2018, Gevinson announced that she was shutting down Rookie due to its no longer being financially sustainable.
39. Gevinson first acted in a short film, First Bass, in 2008, but became more visible in 2012.
40. That year, she voiced a character in the animated short film Cadavar, which was long-listed for an Academy Award. Cadavar was directed by First Bass’s Jonah Ansell and co-starred Kathy Bates and Christopher Lloyd.
41. In the film, she sang renditions of both Neil Young and Pet Shop Boys songs.^[30] Also in 2012, Gevinson filmed a role in Enough Said by director Nicole Holofcener.
42. Gevinson is interviewed on screen in the 2013 documentary film The Punk Singer, talking about riot grrrl punk icon Kathleen Hanna.
43. In 2014 and 2015, she starred in This Is Our Youth in Chicago and at the Cort Theatre on Broadway.
44. In 2015, she made a guest appearance as Feather McCarthy on “Beware of Young Girls”, the seventh episode of the American comedy horror television series Scream Queens.
45. She played Mary Warren in Ivo van Hove’s 2016 production of The Crucible at the Walter Kerr Theatre.
46. Later that year, she played Anya in The Cherry Orchard at the American Airlines Theatre.
47. On the MSNBC chat show So Popular!, host Janet Mock dubbed Gevinson the “Queen of the Millennials”.
48. She then made a guest appearance on The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore on a panel critiquing Sean Penn’s Rolling Stone interview with El Chapo.
49. In 2016, Gevinson recorded a duet with Hunx and His Punx frontman Seth Bogart, singing on “Barely 21” from Bogart’s self-titled debut solo album.
50. She is about to star in the reboot of Gossip Girl.
51. In a Vogue interview she mentioned that the character she’s going to portray is ambitious, and looks like her.
52. Although she no longer runs her blog, Tavi is still keeping the Style Rookie name alive in other ways. In 2021, Tavi started an Audible original podcast called Life Skills by Rookie.
53. Tavi originally entered the podcasting world in 2017 with a show called Rookie.
54. Learning new things is something that has always been pretty high on Tavi’s priority list and reading is one of her favorite ways to get new information. When she has free time, Tavi loves to curl up with a good book. Oftentimes, she’ll even share book recommendations via social media.
55. She has been very open in her stance concerning politics.
56. She is passionate about women’s rights and was strong supporter of former President Barack Obama
57. Tavi has gotten to do more cool things over the years than a lot of people realize One of those things was the chance to voice a character in an episode of The Simpsons. Tavi was the voice of Jenny in the episode “What to Expect When Bart’s Expecting” which aired in 2014.
58. Tavi has admitted that she’s not fearless. During an interview with The Talks, Tavi said, “…fear is something that holds me back a lot. The pendulum just kind of swings side to side so after I have periods of depression where I do hit rock bottom and feel extremely fearful, then I just know how horrible it is and eventually feel bored enough of the feeling that I feel extra motivated. And then it’s more like the fear of missing out on something totally outweighs the fear of what could happen if I take a risk.”
59. Sometimes mistaken for Michelle Williams due to their great physical resemblance.
60. One of her quotes about media is the following one: “Blogs and magazines are good for different things; it’s like comparing apples with oranges. Collaboration, not competition. Always!”