Hashtag princess!
The four-year-old daughter of PR personage Roxy Jacenko, 35, can’t read yet, but she just got a letter from a real-life princess.
Little Pixie Curtis has achieved a lot in her short life: 109,000 Instagram followers, the enviable characterisation as a “tastemaker” and, of course, her own accessories brand, accurately named Pixie’s Bows.
Pixie herself, with her newly-acquired conversational English, really wanted to go with Hurty Hair Dangles but, like most things in her life, her mother made the executive decision.
It was this last endeavour (the bows) that scored the little girl, whose life is probably a lot more extravagant than most young royals’, a letter from Princess Mary and Prince Frederick of Denmark.
Well, close enough, anyway. On official royal stationery, the Chief of the Court of Their Royal Highnesses The Crown Prince and Crown Princess of Denmark thanked Pixie for her thoughtful gift of hair-bows to the Princesses Isabella and Josephine on behalf of the royals.
“Ahh yep – a letter from a proper Prince and Princess – all the way from Denmark to say thank you for the Princesses #pixiesbows ! Wearing two of the Danish colours in my hair to celebrate!” her overbearing mother Pixie wrote on her account.
She then went on to spruik her wares (bows). And these little scraps of material don’t come cheap, either. For two small bows, Pixie will charge you $18. For medium-sized ones, it’s $24.
The tiny tycoon is represented by her mother’s management arm called Ministry of Talent.
In her mother’s Ministry of Talent’s words:
When most toddlers pout it’s a temper tantrum – when Pixie pouts it’s #thelipsthelips and a few hundred Instagram likes.
Sydney’s best-dressed toddler and sassiest selfie-poster is indisputably Pixie Curtis. With a bevy of brands at her disposal, a wardrobe coveted by fashionistas across the nation and razor-sharp wit, Pixie’s digital presence is irresistible.
AAHAHAHAHA! Razor-sharp wit! Oh, God. Sorry, I peed a little. She is funny.
It continues:
Pixie has an uncanny ability to elevate a brand simply by association, drawing mass interaction from luxury and budget-friendly products – who else wears Gucci sandals one day and CROCS the next?
Style-savvy beyond her (four) years, Pixie is fast becoming the voice of her generation – it’s a natural ascension, she seems to be the only one who can spell faux fur Prada…
You heard it here, folks. Pixie Curtis, like Lena Dunham before her, is the voice of her generation. If her generation is interested solely in self-adulation, social media and conspicuous consumption, then yes, yes, I think she could be.
Check out the most well-connected kid in Australia’s Instagram account…
Top Comments
Despite a good old instagram stalk a few months back of these guys I still don't actually know who they are. What I did learn however, was that the child has and I can assume still gets dressed in traditional Indian American head dress. The issue here - Native Indian Americans have expressed their issue with the head dress as they find it disrespectful. 5, or even 2 years ago you could get away woth 'not knowing' about this. But to continue to do so shows further disrespect.
To make matters worse, all her 'followers' are actually insane and jump to the 'defence' of the child wearing it as 'just kids dressing up', without for one moment considering the very real issue, they would rather defend an excuse 'just because it's cute and they like the kid' who they don't even know.
Before anyone else jumps on the 'it's just dress up, PC police about' - ask yourself this - would you dress your non-indigenous child in cultural face paint, would you dress your non-religious child in a hijab?
Oh and side note - when I pointed this out before some crazy actually said 'but the school will paint my child in aboriginal face paint for fun' - well individual idiot and anyone else with this thought, be aware that schools do and have collaborated with their local Aboriginal communities to make this part of the childs education and not 'just for fun'.
This makes me sad. Let the kid be a kid, not a product.