Taylen Biggs has close to 1.5 million followers across TikTok and Instagram, a wardrobe of designer clothes and 15 fashion weeks under her belt — and she is 10 years old.
Taylen arrived at last week’s Balmain show, one of the hottest tickets of Paris Fashion Week, in a luxurious white jacket and skirt combo by the French label, black boots and a bag by Karl Lagerfeld, and her favorite Vintage Frames shades.
She was followed, as always, by her cameraman. Also keeping a discreet distance was her “bodyguard,” as she calls him, who also happens to be her father.
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“I love fashion and I love meeting new people and interviewing them and seeing what they have to say,” she told reporters.
Taylen, who lives in Miami, has interviewed the likes of DJ Khaled, pop star Kali Uchis and National Football League star Patrick Mahomes, as well as a huge number of models, designers and fellow fashionistas.
She is practically a veteran of red carpets, appearing at everything from the MTV Music Awards to the Superbowl, a regular at New York and Miami fashion weeks, and all over Milan and Paris for the past fortnight.
“I really miss my family a lot,” she said. “And I miss Miami, but I don’t miss the food from Miami. I’m in love with the food here.”
Influencers are now the fashion industry’s favored form of media — a direct line to the public and happy to trade goodies for coverage — and age is no obstacle.
Taylen’s father, Josh Biggs, said he has largely given up his job as a construction contractor in Miami to work full-time as his daughter’s assistant.
“I travel with her everywhere she goes, I am her shadow,” he said.
Asked if his daughter has become a business, he says: “People see her through the camera lens ... but in real life she’s a child first and foremost.”
Taylen landed her first modeling gig when she was 18 months old after her fashion-loving mother, a Colombian who came to the US when she was 13, posted pictures of her on social media that were spotted by an advertising agency.
She now runs her daughter’s social media accounts and oversees home-schooling for Taylen and her two younger brothers.
“We take school very seriously, it’s priority number one,” Josh Biggs said.
Taylen’s father — who says he has little interest in fashion — said there is no pressure on his daughter to continue if she gets bored.
However, Taylen seems to enjoy her job.
“I’m really good with anyone,” she said. “I’m really good with kids. I loooove children, and I really love adults — I don’t even get annoyed.”
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