GQ Style Correspondent? 8½ years old you say?

Wow it never ceases to engage us, the different angles fashion, media etc. will come from or the people they come from, but this is one I haven't heard until now, children telling grown-ups how to dress.

If you thought 13 year old Style Rookie blogger Tavi Gevinson; the recent toast of New York Fashion Week, was ludicrously young to be dishing out fashion advice, then meet 8½ Arlo Weiner–style correspondent for American GQ magazine. Hang on, is this a joke?

GQ appointed its youngest style correspondent, Arlo 'The Littlest Dandy' earlier this year; Arlo recently started third grade, attends summer Shakespeare camps and is the son of uber-stylish 'Mad Men' creator, Matthew Weiner (which has received critical acclaim, particularly for its historical authenticity and visual style, and has won multiple awards, including nine Emmys and three Golden Globes).

Many have detected a whiff of nepotism. But whether Arlo has any raw talent as a fashionisto, or not as the case may be, I do think its interesting that 'a child' has been drafted by GQ, a publication targeted predominantly at an adult-male demographic, to shed light on how essentially grown-ups should dress. Which then brings to question; what does 'a child' know about fashion, will grown-up men take style queues from an 8½ year old, and are online media sites growing so fast and hungry that they're looking for the most unlikely of places, like the playground, for content?

Interesting... he's endearing if not a little precocious (perhaps a modern-day Carl 'Alfalfa' Switzer), a little too eager to grow-up I think. And maybe a tad young to be jetting between New York-London-Paris-Milan fashion weeks, but you never know if he'll turn up front row alongside Suzy Menkes, Michael Roberts, Sally Singer, Anna Wintour and Hamish Bowles eventually.