Tavi Gevinson —the Chicago area 13-year-old behind the fashion blog Style Rookie —certainly has come a long way. In 18 months of blogging, Tavi has gone from writing raps about Rei Kawakubo to flying to Japan as her guest . Gevinson’s meteoric rise — she made the cover of Pop magazine, and became a darling of Kate and Laura Mulleavy , the sisters behind Rodarte, all before apparently graduating middle school — has culminated, for now, with a column in this month’s Harper’s Bazaar magazine. (Gevinson also blogs for Pop .) Yesterday, there was a flurry of Tavi-related news , with the announcement of the Harper’s Bazaar column , and the release of a video about the Rodarte for Target collection that Gevinson had been working on since August. Apparently, not everyone is enamored of this precocious 13-year-old’s considerable talents. The Tavi Gevinson backlash has officially begun , with big-name…
