fffound, stella mccartney kids, petite bateau, crewcuts, Sophia Coppola's Somewhere
Its a great time to be a bougie kid. Everywhere where I look (all the blogs, advertisments) there are new clothes lines for brats popping up and kind of surpassing the adult versions. Kids are a blank canvas because they don't need flattering lines or work-appropriate proportions. They can just layer and jump around -- as they do in the stella McCartney ad--and be cute and sell clothes. But how different is selling the 'industry of cool' to a bunch of parents so they can make their kids in their image, or maybe the image they wish they had, than an episode of Toddlers in Tiaras?
When I was little, I was wearing a lot of acid wash in a sea of oshkosh b'gosh. Now I am literally buying sweaters from Jcrew kids in my last year of college and watching movies starring 11 years olds. I look to Sophia Coppola: Elle Fanning rules in Somewhere, teaching her movie star dad how to be cool, but it can't help make all of us real women long for the days before we had curves. Kids are the new adults... Are we regressing? Or are kids just catching up? Or is something weird going on in between? At least we're all out of our awkward phases.
