If you love Rachel Zoe, keep reading. If you don't know who Rachel Zoe is, keep reading. Holyshit is my initial thought after looking at these pictures. They're of Rachel Zoe's studio. She could lock me in there for centuries. Rachel Strugatz from the Huffington Post interviewed fashion stylist and guru Rachel Zoe on her go to outfits, style icons, and inspiration.
Rachel Strugatz: Describe your personal style.
Rachel Zoe: My personal style is deffinatley grounded in the 60's and 70's -- I can't seem to get out of it and it's what works best for me. I love the glam bohemian thing, the music from the 60's and 70's, everything about the women in this era: Marianne Faithful, Bianca Jagger, Edie Sedgwick, Briggite Bardot, Ali McGraw, the women of Halston and Yves Saint Laurent- there are so many. It's the whole time period that goes into Studio 54-- it's glamour, sexy glamour.
Rachel Strugatz:What is your go-to outfit?
Rachel Zoe: I would say a pair of bell bottom jeans- either wide leg or bell bottoms that are high wasted too- with a t-shirt or tank from Alexander Wang or Phillip Lim, and usually a Chanel or Louis Vuitton jacket- vintage or new. And always platforms-- those are either Louis Vuitton, Brian Atwood, Lanvin, Azzedine Alaia, or Christian Louboutin.
Rachel Strugatz: What are your must-have items this fall?
Rachel Zoe: A tuxedo jacket -- I love the one from Balmain. I also love the bags that Marc Jacobs did for Louis Vuitton for the fall- they are amazing. I am obsessed with leggings and I love the leather pair by Rag & Bone. When it comes to leggings I stick to black- black leather or the black stretch leggings. Any leggings for fall are great. I love the jewlery that Karl Lagerfeld did for Chanel with all the jade and the onyx. He did this thing that goes around your fingers like rings but it's sort of a bracelet into a ring. I love the color combination. The neon pieces Marc Jacobs' pieces are incredible- the yellow wrap coat in particular.
Rachel Strugatz: What inspires you?
Rachel Zoe: So many periods in fashion inspire me depending on the client I am working with. Primarily it's the designers and what they show on their runways that inspire me. That's why it's so important that I go to the shows because I leave with a ton of ideas- whether it's couture or ready to wear. That's what gets me excited to do the next project. When I see what designers are showing, it tells me what's happening now, this is what's going on now, this is what will work with that client, etc.
Rachel Strugatz: How do you stay relevant?
Rachel Zoe: It's not ever an intention -- I keep working harder and harder at my job and diversifying in the kind of work I do. We just launched my website on August 4th- it crashed on the first day because we had too much traffic but everyone kept saying it was a good thing. I update my site everyday. I personally pick what goes onto the site, and it takes alot of time- it's really important to me because I don't want to put something out there that I'm not excited about. From Monday to Friday there will be a key item and that will dictate a trend of an idea- and if it's an item that's super expensive, I'll always give an alternate that I call "parallel universe". You're in the same universe, you're just getting it for less money. What we're doing is the daily newsletter, and each day will be a different category: apparel, beauty, lifestyle, jewlery, etc. Theres a section called "Ask Rachel" and because I'm very infatuated with twitter, people can ask me questions through my site and link to twitter. I always give advice and things like that as we move foward. Ultimately, I want to sell products on the site and have an e-commerce component- it will be a resource for everything. Everything I put on the site links to a place you can purchase. But baby steps first- I want to get it right and then the people that are looking at it will give their feedback. I'm also launching a collection on QVC. It's a line of bags, jewlery, hats, scarves, outerwear, and sunglasses- so that's really exciting. It's a very accessible price point and everything is under $150. The jewlery is way under $100 and the bags are about $120 but almost everything is in that range.
5 Things about Rachel:
1. She loves to cook and bake. Her favorite thing to make is chocolate chip banana bread.
2. She's a good tennis player and a great skier.
3. She's obsessed with Warren Buffet.
4. She always has to watch Friends and Will & Grace before she goes to sleep. It's too hard for her to pick her favorite Friends character -- she loves them all.
5. The last book she read was The World of Coco Chanel: Friends, Fashion, Fame by Edmonde Charles-Roux
(huffingtonpost)
Season 2 of The Rachel Zoe Project premiers Monday on Bravo at 10pm!
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