Was it inevitable it that the 13-year-old fashion blogger phenomenon (Tavi Gevinson: Style Rookie) would be followed by a 10-year-old fashion designer? Meet Cecilia Cassini from Encino, California. She told me, “I am the youngest fashion designer in America” and said she was being filmed at Fashion Week by the "Today Show" for a piece slated to air in April.
Cecilia was wearing a sequined skirt of her own design, as well as one of her cardigans with sequins on the shoulder, although that piece was obscured by her faux-fur Miu Miu jacket.
The bow on her head is her signature. “The most famous dress I made is the bow dress,” she explained. “It has a big bow on it.”
Cecilia, who produced her first skirt at age six, is no relation to the famous designer Oleg Cassini. But the sister of her mother’s close friend “used to be the manager of Kim Kardashian, and now she’s my manager,” she said.
While her work is currently available only in one Southern California children’s boutique, Cecilia confidently predicted she would soon be in more stores nationwide.
