Trend could have its latest star, however the world must wait a couple of years till Kaia Aragon finishes faculty — elementary faculty, that’s.
9-year-old Kaia Aragon has gone viral on TikTok for her beautiful unique style creations. Her mother, Tonya, boasts a TikTok account of her daughter’s unique designs, @middle.mom, with 582.9K followers and 22.6M likes. Amongst these followers? Well-known grownup style icons, together with Vera Wang, who despatched the younger expertise a handwritten be aware.
Wang commented on considered one of Tonya’s TikTok movies and later despatched Kaia a handwritten be aware, together with a purple backpack. “So excited to see you might be already pursuing your dream of changing into a clothier! Congratulations and all good luck,” Wang signed the be aware.
Kaia informed The Submit she’s been designing “for some time now,” and simply began stitching in November 2021. Her first mission was a cat mattress. However she shortly escalated to finishing her personal outfits.
“I like that relying on what you’re carrying it may make you are feeling assured and courageous,” the teenager from Colorado informed The Submit.

Kaia’s profession started final Christmas when she was gifted a gown kind. Straight away, she grabbed a chunk of scrap material, went into her room and pinned it to the shape, sewed it collectively and walked out in her personal design about an hour later.
“It sort of blew me away,” Kaia’s mother Tonya stated. “I believed the gown kind was for adornment. I didn’t understand she was really going to make use of it.”
However the expertise didn’t come from nowhere. Tonya stated her daughter has all the time had a knack for model.
“Since she was younger sufficient to pick her personal garments she was all the time very meticulous in regards to the objects she would decide,” the proud mother stated. “She would all the time go excessive with equipment and she or he would combine and match issues that didn’t make sense to me however would make sense after she put it on.”

“And he or she didn’t get that from me,” Tonya stated, eliciting giggles from Kaia. “That’s all distinctive to Kaia.”
Kaia nonetheless creates most of her designs alone, however she has a big workforce supporting and dealing together with her: The Aragon household has fostered 14 youngsters and nonetheless stay “very, very shut” with 10 of them. “I depend all 10 of them as organic,” Kaia made certain to make clear.
She has goals of beginning her personal style firm together with her siblings and buddies.
“My buddies and my large sister can be the designers as a result of that’s what we wanna do after which my brother stated he would do hair for our enterprise,” she defined.
The requests have already come pouring in from buddies asking for outfits and strangers placing in orders for marriage ceremony and promenade attire. However for now, Kaia nonetheless prefers to design for herself.
Whereas Tonya likes to see her daughter’s expertise develop, she doesn’t need to lock her daughter into the style enterprise anytime quickly, she stated.

“She does this as a result of it makes her comfortable, and the minute you flip it right into a enterprise it’s one thing she has to do. She’s solely 9, she’s in third grade, she ought to completely have the chance to vary her thoughts if this isn’t one thing she desires to do eternally.”
“She’s on the level in her life the place she ought to discover one million different issues that she enjoys,” she added.
And whereas she’s been receiving quite a lot of encouragement, Kaia isn’t letting it get to her head.
“Proper now I’m simply doing this for enjoyable,” the little fashionista stated.