Do You Know Kiki?
If you’ve been reading this blog for very long, then you’ve heard me mention my work for Kiki magazine before. It’s my hope that by showing you what a bright and fun magazine it is, you might check it out for your daughter, granddaughter, or any other special girl in your life who is in her tween years.
As the magazine explains:
Kiki’s a girl who loves life, appreciates creativity, recognizes good ideas. Kiki is discerning. She thinks for herself. She has her own look. Kiki’s on her way to be being confident, strong, and smart. She’s a girl with style and substance.
This is a positive and inspiring magazine for girls that will never have articles with titles like, “How to Get a Boyfriend.” And it never talks down to girls. It assumes that they are intelligent and creative beings in their own right. I love that.
Remember the post I wrote about Coco Chanel’s Apartment on Rue Cambon? That was inspired by an article I was writing at the time about Chanel for Kiki. That issue just came out this week. I took a picture of it to show you how it turned out:
Kiki magazine is very creative and always beautifully laid out. I’m proud to have written so many articles for them. (I also wrote the one about Karl Lagerfeld on the opposite page. And I have a series of articles on South Africa that I just turned in for the Fall issue.)
When I showed my daughter Lily my name in the Summer issue, she gasped and said, “Are you FAMOUS?”
Here are a couple of articles I wrote in the Spring issue about Japanese designers. Kiki is geared especially toward girls who love art, design, and fashion:
Go to Kiki’s website for more information. I think this is the kind of magazine our girls need, and that we should support. And I’m not just saying that because I write for them!
You don’t just have to take my word for it, though. Ann Kroeker, who is the published author of The Contemplative Mom and the homeschooling mother of four loves this magazine so much for her daughters that she wrote an entire ode to it on her blog that you can read here.
June 12th, 2008 at 8:44 pm
Makes me wish my daughter were older. Very nice. I wish there’d been something like that back when I was 12 and reading Vogue magazine, wishing I were 6 ft. tall and 98 lbs.
June 12th, 2008 at 9:57 pm
What a great magazine, I will have to look into this for my god-daughter, who is 12 and thankfully not yet boy-crazy and still of the “anything is possible/and I don’t have to be a supermodel to do it” mindset.
Reminds me of “Cricket” magazine which I used to devour when I was that age, and which, thankfully, is still around.
June 13th, 2008 at 5:55 am
I’ve never heard of that magazine before but glad I know about it now! And to know that you write for it–all the better! Uh, I think you ARE famous!
Maya, if I may, I once WAS 12 years old, 6 feet tall, and 98 pounds. It is not all it’s cracked up to be…especially when all your friends and boys in class are hovering around five feet tall. But I had a good daddy who told me daily I was beautiful–and I started to believe it whether it was true or not and didn’t mind being the gargantuan girl.
I guess that was in the spirit of Kiki on his part!
June 13th, 2008 at 7:29 am
I KNEW you were famous!!!
I’ve never heard of Kiki magazine. I may have to check it out for my own daughter. She is really into magazines lately.
Congrats on your articles in the magazine. How exciting!
June 13th, 2008 at 9:41 am
I stumbled across your site a few months ago and have enjoyed being able to peek into other people’s homes. You do a wonderful job. Thank you so much.
Now I just went and checked out this magazine and I am completely thrilled. I have an 11 year-old daughter and I just ordered it for her. I love how it is geared to her age and doesn’t talk down to her but at the same time is all about creativeness, fun, etc. Thank you so much for sharing this. I can’t wait until she gets it
June 13th, 2008 at 10:03 am
Congrats Julia, I will be sure to check this out. I can always say I knew you when….lol
Have a nice week-end,
Kathy
ps Red Sox are playing the Indians, are you into baseball???
June 14th, 2008 at 10:01 pm
May I have your autograph ?