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  1. Posted about 3 years ago

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    Couture Fashion By a 10-Year-Old??

    Started about 3 years ago · Last post over 2 years ago · Displaying Post 1 - 30 of 35 in total
    check out this video! I guess she's making it big in the industry already!!!

    She cracked me up when she said she's "always" been inspired by Chanel. Always... as in, for the past 8 years? ;)

    So cute. :)

    http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/26184891/vp/36846555#36846555?from=en-us_msnhp>1=42007
  2. Posted about 3 years ago
    wow. thats crazy.
    I think her clothes r okay.

    I wish my parents would buy me chanel. :D
    ...or teach me to sew. lol
  3. Posted about 3 years ago · Edited about 3 years ago
    That's insane (in a good way).

    But she's already wearing make-up and styling her hair?! At TEN?! Jeez... she needs to act her age. It's amazing what she's doing, but really...
  4. Posted about 3 years ago
    Dang...when I was ten, I was still making mud pies. But then again, I was pretty sheltered and lived half in the woods. lol I'm soooo jealous.
  5. Posted about 3 years ago
    Haha, that's quite cute. I remember making bookmarks out of fabric at that age, that was probably as far as it goes! Lol. That has certainly set her up for a great career though!
  6. Posted about 3 years ago
    That is so amazing! 10 years old.. I feel a little.. less crafty after seeing her!
    Geez
  7. Posted about 3 years ago
    but we have to remember that in order to design, she needed training. Her parents helped her along, she has talent. Her mom is the one promoting her, although the fashion industry is hard on women, I think its great for her that she has this great talent, but for her parents to exploit her, thats just not right. Let her be a kid.
  8. Posted about 3 years ago · Edited about 3 years ago
    Very talented young girl. Just hope she has a hard shell. She's cute because of her age but may come up against a tough crowd when she grows up. As for her clientelle I'm thinking tears, tantrums and tieras!!! Hope her parents are making sure she has a chance just to be a kid too. Btw.....I got my first sewing machine when I was 7 and still have it in working order. I still rode my bicycle, messed about in mud and had picnics with friends :)
  9. Posted about 3 years ago
    yeah, her parents are really promoting her.
  10. Posted about 3 years ago
    I suppose all that really matters is that she is, and remains, happy. Good luck to her. :)
  11. Posted about 3 years ago
    Wow I'm 19 and I'm barely trying to learn how to sew.
  12. Posted about 3 years ago
    Gosh that is immense!! Like you all said, lets hope she is still being allowed to have a childhood. She's cute now, but when she's grown she'll be just another face in the coture crowd so it'll be even tougher for her later on in life.

    I'm with you Codex - I'm 21 and I can barely sew, trying to learn. I wish my mum would teach me how to sew :(
  13. Posted about 3 years ago
    I'm sure she's talented, full of confidence and obviously her parents have the time and resources to promote her....but there's something i find a little disturbing about these precocious young kids wearing make up and grown-up clothes with the pushy parents :S...and in many cases these " child prodigies" seem to come to grief when they reach late teens/early twenties, but let's hope she has a long and sucessful career ahead of her.

    I could knit and sew from an early age, about 5 or 6, and I could make fairly easy things like skirts on the sewing machine by the time I was 11 or 12....but that was probably through necessity, living in a remote area, and not much else to do! I also had a pen pal in London, and we used to send each other designs of dresses etc. we had come up with ourselves.

    I have tried to teach my daughter how to sew, but she's not really been interested :( I wish she was, because even if you don't make many clothes, I think it's a useful and necessary skill for life.
  14. Posted about 3 years ago
    it is, sewing is a great skill to have. even hand sewing
  15. Posted about 3 years ago
    Sewing is a great skill to have, you make not make clothing, but at least when your favourite something is torn you have the knowledge to fix it, rather than just throwing it away and buying a new one!! It also gives you the opportunity to stand out a little more by altering clothing... just love the idea of creating something I care about - clothing - with my bare hands, rather than buying them all the time. I go shopping and think, that could be made so easily I wish I knew how.

    I'm with you Nora, some child prodigies seem a bit pretensious (excuse the spelling error) particularly if she's wearing make up and dressing more like an adult than a kid... it's just not on, but it's not her fault, bless her, she probably doesn't know any better!!!
  16. Posted about 3 years ago
    I learnt to sew out of necessity, being short in height and body length with long legs meant that nothing fit right. I too lived in a rural area about 50 miles away from the main city. My mother was a seamstress so I was lucky. I spent some of my time drawing and designing patterns for clothes when I was a kid. I did my 'apprenticeship' making clothes for teddies as I never had enough fabric. I used my mother's off cuts. When I started earning my own money there was no stopping me. Although I still look for off cuts for my projects. It's a feel good thing that I don't think will ever leave me and has made me respect materials and recycle them
  17. Posted about 3 years ago
    I have a long body and average length legs, so I need to shorten legs on pants or take in some clothes
  18. Posted about 3 years ago
    I was taught to sew at age 6 by my grandma. If there were holes ion my clothes, she made me stitch them back up till they looked brand new again.
  19. Posted almost 3 years ago
    That is incredible. I do agree with hopefully her parents are letting her enjoy being a kid. My daughter is 8 and knows how to sew, she designs some of her clothing picks fabrics and is super crafty and creative. But its for her. She fully enjoys herself. If and when she want to do something like that, more power to her, but I would want her to do it and go out and get it on her own. Of course I'd help if she asked. But there is something about doing things for yourself on your own, learning the ropes of things makes it more meaningful and special. Proud. you know. Hey if you got it do it!
  20. Posted almost 3 years ago
    That's awesome. I agree with everyone else about hoping she doesn't fade away when she gets older. She already seems a little full of herself. But hey, she's got a right to be. She's got a friggin clothing line. :)

    @Miss Circus: Props to your grandma.
  21. Posted almost 3 years ago · Edited almost 3 years ago
    First thing that pops in;
    DENG !
  22. Posted over 2 years ago
    WOW!That is a pretty cool ten-year-old!!I love to sew and I haven't ever even made a dress!!@.@
  23. Posted over 2 years ago
    That's amazing she is able to do that, but like most on here I hope that she is enjoying her childhood too.

    I have a ten-year-old daughter and she got a sewing machine from her Grandma a couple of years ago. She uses now and then, but nothing like what that girl could do. She has recently been working on designing her own patterns. Lately she has been making Pokemon and zombie dolls
  24. Posted over 2 years ago · Edited over 2 years ago
    Wow, but really? The clothes are kinda cute don't you think that they're a little to showy for a ten year old? I mean, the girls got nothing there but when she gets older, what else is she going to make?

    She doesn't really seem to be a kid anymore. I think I'd rather spend 10 years enjoying the life as a little kid than designing clothes. I'd spend as much time on the standard T.V and PS2 until it all dies out (the PS3 killed my T.V a few weeks ago).

    When I was ten I was still wearing my Alice and Wonderland shirt, my friend would even call me a big baby. And I would always wear my hair in a ponytail, until now. And I STILL drink out of my baby cup...
  25. Posted over 2 years ago
    WOW i wish i could have had clothing line at 10! ... hello mary kate and ashley you've been replaced. but really, WOW, i mean Wow. reallly????? i make some amazing hand made gowns and i cant get a thing even close to that. im happy for her but wtf? and whats with all the make up> Does her paerents want her to be kid napped? this is america things like that happen alot. WOW. that takes talent though props to the kid. :)
  26. Posted over 2 years ago
    thats realy cookl although its kinda of to find someone younger than me to be into sewing and stuff as im (only 13) :P
  27. Posted over 2 years ago
    thats realy cookl although its kinda of to find someone younger than me to be into sewing and stuff as im (only 13) :P
  28. Posted over 2 years ago
    She should be worrying about being a child. There is probably so much that she'll miss. Yes, I'm sure she's having an amazing time, but I think she should have waited. The dress that she wears when you first see her (when she's walking up to the photo shoot) is so short. Holy geeze.

    I feel like her clothing would be better in a couple years.
  29. Posted over 2 years ago
    when i was 10 i used to draw outfits and make them
  30. Posted over 2 years ago
    Oooo a growing designer by 10?

    There is no doubt that Cecilia has the talent and drive, but I kind of was annoyed when she said "I have to have this..I can't live without it." It reminded me of my little hedonistic cousin, the one with the loud valley girl voice. BUT Cecilia is 10, and a little girl at that.

    Hopefully in a few years her clothes will have only but improved!

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