Tavi Gevinson recently moved into a new apartment in what real-estate developers would like you to call the Brooklyn Culture District and which is actually called Fort Greene, a historically black, middle-class neighborhood. The Rookie founder/editor-in-chief and actor has been posting to Instagram about her new digs,…
On Saturday morning, Teen Vogue published a sharp piece by the writer Lauren Duca entitled “Donald Trump Is Gaslighting America.” Described in the tagline as a “scorched-earth op-ed,” Duca laid out a clear and airtight argument about the way the president-elect used classic gaslighting tactics to secure his voter base…
Red carpet event coverage is some of the most love-to-hate television in our culture, the brouhaha and pomp of the glamorous people in fancy dresses and tuxedos imbibed from the comforts of our own homes, often with wine and sweatpants. The regular rotation of hosts—E!’s Giuliana and Terrence J, most reliably, if…
Broad City’s Abbi Jacobson, Tavi Gevinson, and Michael Cera will star in an adaptation of Human People. Variety reports that the ensemble drama is about “a variety of New York characters navigating personal relationships and unexpected problems over the course of one day.” It’s also proof that Gevinson, founder of the…
The notoriously nudie Pirelli Calendar—known for depicting models and their ilk in various states of pin-up-style undress and being shipped off to an exclusive list of high-end clientele who presumably smell like scotch and cigars and laugh maniacally in their top-floor corner offices—has undergone a revamp this year…
The Pirelli Calendar has long been known for its exclusive, seductive pictures of the world’s top models, shot by the world’s best photographers, as was celebrated last year in a book on the calendar’s 50-plus years of production. While the 2016 calendar was expected to be much of the same, it appears that this year,…
The premiere of Ryan Murphy’s Scream Queens is less than two months away, but the series’ casting announcements continue to trickle down like blood in the shower of a fictional sorority house where the sisters are being picked off one by one by a serial killer.
Clinique is hoping to transform its significance among the “millennial” set from the crusty old moisturizer your mom let you play with as a kid to products you might actually buy. And who better to convince us to open our sustainably-sourced wallets than Queen Millennial herself, Tavi Gevinson?
Joan Jett! Tracee Ellis Ross! Carrie Brownstein! A dancing ovary puppet! Everyone you ever thought was cool got together and remixed "Bad Reputation" to help you vote in next week's midterm elections on Nov. 4th. Why? The War on Women rages on and Republicans are trying to stop The Ladies from voting because we …
Tavi Genvinson — actress, fashion maven and beloved creator/Editor-in-Chief of Rookie — is all grown up and newly graduated from high school. And considering how Gevinson has always been incredibly mature, it makes sense that the 18-year-old is already looking back and dropping wisdom about her teen years.
In today's Tweet Beat, Tavi wants to make it clear that she doesn't necessarily support everything Miley Cyrus has ever done, Joe Budden has some ideas about safe sex and Liz Phair celebrates her birthday by lying about her age.
In the publishing world, Miley Cyrus is a hot ticket, so much so that magazines are fighting over her. This month, Elle and Seventeen are both releasing Miley covers — though only one was given the two-bun consent.
It'$ the end of an era! Following 60 days of treatment for disordered eating, Ke$ha has decided to reinvent herself by dropping the trademark dollar sign from her name. She shall hereby be known simply as Kesha! Congrats on this new phase of your life, lady!
Tavi Gevinson and some of her Rookie Magazine staffers think UK-based online fashion megastore ASOS's "Rookie" sweatshirt looks miiighty familiar. Is ASOS sneakily trying to rip off the teen-approved logo?
Last month, Buzzfeed's Katie Notopolous urged Twitter users to #followateen and report on what said teen is up to in a mockingly anthropological tone. (Examples range from "My teen thinks Anne Frank was 'a great girl'" to "My teen is lamenting the fact that she hates the taste of alcohol and cannot do shots like many…
Tavi Gevinson — high school junior, media baron, and Taylor Swift Number One Fan — talks in a new interview about her plans for Rookie, why she's going to college, and why she won't accept ads for "anti-aging, wrinkle shit."
Supermodel and musician Karen Elson popped up over at Rookie to answer advice questions from teen readers. Elson offered reassurance to one teen who was feeling self-conscious about her tooth gap, gave another advice about how to have a more constructive relationship with her mother (boundaries!), and helped out a…
We saw the trailer and heard the song — a sweet, winsome cover of Neil Young's "Heart of Gold" — and now it's here. Director Jonah Ansell's animated short Cadaver tells the story of a medical-school cadaver (voiced by Christopher Lloyd) who suddenly reanimates as a student (Tavi Gevinson) begins to dissect his body,…
Tavi Gevinson, the 16-year-old fashion and editorial wunderkind behind the über cool teen website Rookie, was on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon last night to promote her new book Rookie Yearbook One. As if she wasn't impressive enough, Gevinson managed to bowl Fallon and the entire audience over with her charm and…
Tavi Gevinson has landed a role in a forthcoming Nicole Holofcener film.