A review by pwbalto
Rookie Yearbook One by Tavi Gevinson

5.0

In the end though, what kept me reading, what I kept not being able to get over, was this uncompromising, very specific expectation of and demand for consideration and respect. Tavi and her ladies understand what it is to be female in this culture - they embrace the girliness (to varying degrees), and they articulate very clearly how girls can enjoy their femininity while maintaining a firm grasp on the nature of true beauty. While they acknowledge that watching fashion can be a really fun hobby (oh it is - I have bought and kept every September issue of Vogue since 1978), they remind girls that each model has spent three hours in a makeup chair and been Photoshopped all the way to Jesus and back.

Full review on Pink Me: http://pinkme.typepad.com/pink-me/2012/08/rookie-yearbook-one-edited-by-tavi-gevinson-review.html