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Friday, 09 December 2016

Instagram mini fashionistas: kids whose outfits you cannot but adore

Luisa Fernanda Espinosa’s son Alonso Mateo. Photo © @luisafere

Little fashionistas are one of the main Instagram trends. However, comments left under their photos are not always flattering. Some people believe, it is not acceptable to demonstrate children on social media, let alone earn money on it; others hint at the fact, that little models, who receive fancy things literally from the cradle, are spoiled. Superstitions, that it is not right to show children as they might be jinxed, add fuel to debates. Nevertheless, any normal person is happy to see a cute kid in their feed. The overall positivity is even more increased, if the child is also dressed in a way that makes you follow his example.

Stylist Luisa Fernanda Espinosa managed to get more than 600K followers on her Instagram account @luisafere by posting photos of her always impeccably dressed 8-year old son Alonso Mateo. Luisa and Alonso Mateo’s popularity started similarly to other successful insta-stories – the mom was posting photos of the highlights from their common trips. And ‘Who doesn’t like well-dressed children’ – as Luisa mentioned in one of the interviews. Even severe Anna Wintour could not help but smile, when she saw a serious little boy in a stylish suit and a very adult-looking fur-collared coat at Paris Fashion Week.

Parents literally become their kids’ agents by turning their Instagram accounts into a job. Little Lucia James from New York had become a GAP model and got caught on the lens of many street-style photographers during her first Fashion week. Besides casual outfits from GAP and Burberry, the girl is often seen in classic outfits from Ralph Lauren and sporty chic clothes from Moncler. Even grown up fashionistas could take after her gorgeous totally natural hair, beautifully framed by scarves and collars. She has just a little over 16K followers on her Instagram, but they all seem to have good taste in fashion.

Admirers subscribe to mini-bloggers’ accounts, while parents of the latter keep signing new contracts with famous brands of children clothing. 4-year old Ryan @ryansecret (130K followers) of Latino-Serbian origin from Orlando and 3-year old Taylen @taylensmom (131K followers) from Florida are famous for having already become models regardless of their young age: they advertize for the Kardashian Kids clothing line. Angelica, mother of Taylen, tells that her daughter works with more than 100 brands. By the way, Taylen’s 1-year old little sister Aleia also takes part in shootings, and Angelica made her own store POMP kids, whose slogan “Strength, confidence and style” proclaims three main qualities applicable not only to children clothing. This is, of course, no more just a kids’ success! As a result of her new job, Angelica brought to light numerous interesting brands of children clothing: Wrare Doll, Crew and Lu, Brass Rozoo, accessories by Modern Queen Kids. The mother assures, her daughter always takes part in the process of picking the look, and her first word was ‘shoes’. Angelica also says, she absolutely adores the style of her eldest daughter, who chooses flower patterned dresses pairing them with comfortable sneakers all by herself. However, Taylen’s mother insists, her daughter’s main interest is not fashion, but football and puzzles.

The main star of the @jennbrooklyn, 2-year old Harper lives in Southern California and, therefore sports only light boho-chic-like outfits. Harper’s mother Jenn, who runs the account, is responsible for photoshoots and her daughter’s style. She is rather modest and does not consider herself a fashion-pro, although admitting she was always attracted by fashion. Nevertheless, she manages to create looks that could easily make British Vogue stylists, who are known to be real boho-chic style pros, jealous. On of Jenn family members’ works in the movie-making and photo industry, so she always has someone to ask for advice. Jenn is not yet after a huge number of followers – she has got only 15K: Harper’s sister Saylor has just been born, and Jenn is fully devoted to pleasant charges of a new mom. However, she plans to continue fashion photo chronicle of her daughters’ childhood: Jenn sees her account mainly as her children lives’ photo album, and only then as a fashion-blog. Besides, Harper is one of those girls loved by the camera; she definitely has a model talent, to say nothing of the long legs. She likes to demonstrate new outfits in the ‘princess’ and ‘boho-start’ style; at the moment her most favorite piece is one of her tutu skirts. However, she is most fond of walking in parks and on beaches, and her favorite drink is a chia seed one.

Harper’s mother keeps her favorite outfits; all the others are sold through another Instagram account.

However, often not only moms become seriously involved in their kids’ outfits. Pete, father of 5-year old Harlow from Melbourne, whose Instagram account has an imposing name @thedaddyfashionstylist (123K subscribers), made his daughter a real fashion icon. The girl is equally radiant with Louis Vuitton purse and in Burberry poncho on the photos, and Pete says with tenderness, that his only job is “to be a good dad for Harlow”. Pete himself believes, that “sense of style cannot be acquired – you either have it or you don’t. Fashion cannot be taught”. The father is certain, his daughter and himself were born with love for fashion. “Although, if she chooses to become a teacher, I will support her aspirations”, – Pete adds. Pete prefers Mishka Aoki children clothing and their cute dresses over all other brands.

Isnta-baby boom did not pass round Moscow. Only recently we did an interview with Shahri Amirhanova @shakri (17K followers), formerly editor-in-chief of a fashion magazine, and now owner of the children’s store alisaandsonya.com, named after her daughter Alisa and Alisa’s friend Sonya. Similarly to other parents, Shahri’s fascination in children’s fashion rapidly developed from the wish to make her child acquire good taste to a professional interest. There is just one catch: we would surely want to see more of stylish Sonya and Alisa on the @alisaandsonyashop account. Fashion designer Alisa Ruban @alisaruban (54K subscribers) together with her sister Julia @jruban (60K subscribers) launched a clothing line for young women @pe_for_girls (115K subscribers) in honor of Alisa’s daughter Petra. Also, we all will be happy no doubt, if a popular hashtag #ПетраИванна becomes a full-scale account.

Unfortunately, fashion kids, whom we want to see most often, do not have their own Instagram accounts yet. It is really a shame, and we look forward to see personal pages of daring fashionistas: Misha – eldest daughter of stylist Natalia Goldenberg @ngoldenberg and restaurateur Alexander Oganezov @oganezov1, Alisa – daughter of model Alena Shishkova @missalena.92 and musician Timati @timatiofficial, and Michal – eldest daughter of a stylish couple, Tanya @tanya_liberman and Michail @mihabigfoot Liberman .

Editor: Evelina Khromtchenko

Info-research: Anna Sansieva

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