WERE YOU ALWAYS DRAWN TO THE
FASHION WORLD? I didn’t know
what I was going to do with my life.
At George Washington University,
I majored in psychology and sociol-
ogy. I was always into fashion, but
I didn’t know you could make a
career out of it. People can go to
school for it now, but that wasn’t
the case then. I was just trying to
find my way after I graduated. I got
a job from a friend of a friend as
a fashion assistant at a magazine
called YM, and started styling in the
fashion department.
YOU’RE CREDITED WITH LAUNCH-
ING THE “BO-HO CHIC STYLE.”
HOW DID THAT COME ABOUT?
The truth is, I always had my own
style, whether people liked it or not.
Whether it was a good or a bad
thing, I didn’t care. I just wanted
to look different from the others.
I always wore a lot of accessories
and jewelry, and I always wanted
to counter what other people were
doing. If others were in jeans, I was
in a dress; if they were in dresses, I
wore a tank top. I was attracted to
the glamour of the ’60s and ’70s,
and wanted to emulate the disco
era. I found it the most beautiful. It
worked with my style and body type,
it was effortless yet glamourous, and
not too formal.
AS A STYLIST, YOU’VE WORKED
WITH NICOLE RICHIE, CAMERON
DIAZ, KEIRA KNIGHTLY, JENNIFER
LAWRENCE, JENNIFER GARNER AND
OTHER CELEBRITIES. WHAT GUIDES
YOU WHEN YOU TAKE ON A
CLIENT? I’ll ask: What are you trying
to achieve? Are you trying to change
what you look like, or is there one
style that you love and identify with?
If you’re going to be seen while
you’re working on a movie, what’s
the message that you want to put out
there? Somber? Subdued? Outside
your comfort zone? It’s the mission
of my business to educate women so
they’re not afraid of fashion. They
can style themselves easily and look
like the right version of themselves.
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READY FOR THEIR CLOSEUP (Clockwise) Rachel Zoe, Rodger Berman, Kaius Jagger and Skyler
Morrison Berman at a 2017 event for The Honest Company.
PICTURE PERFECT (Above) Emmy Rossum,
Derek Blasberg, Rachel Zoe, Karolína Kurkova,
Christina Ricci and Nicky Hilton Rothschild
attend Carolina Herrera Collection during
New York Fashion Week in 2017; (Left) with
Kate Hudson at Bravo’s The Rachel Zoe Project
series launch party in 2008.
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