Style A To Zoe — a Fashion Guide
Successful Style Tips from Hollywood’s Famous Celebrity Stylist
Celebrity stylist Rachel Zoe offers sound style advice in this makeover book, taking you from plain-Jane to glamazon through her pages of beauty, fashion and home.
Rachel Zoe, (pronounced Zoh) has motivated many a would-be fashionista with her recent book, Style A To Zoe; The Art of Fashion, Beauty & Everything Glamour (Grand Central Publishing, October 2007). This DIY style guide to becoming a glamazon is both practical and entertaining. Says Zoe, "I've always been obssessed with style and glamor and if I want anyone to get anything out of my book, it's how we can all have them in our lives."
The world’s most sough-after stylist, (according to the Daily Mail, 5 October 2007 article "Don't Blame Me for Anorexia") provides women with an insight into creating instant glamour, both from updating wardrobes and improving their home. The book is full of useful tips like how to look your best in a photograph, building a glamorous wardrobe and how to use fashion accessories (or “excessories” as Zoe refers to them) to make your own style statement. It also proffers some harsh words for those who wear trainers and sweat pants as part of their everyday attire. In praise of the book, editor of Harper's Bazaar, Glenda Bailey, enthuses, “Rachel not only invites you into her fantasy world, she gives you a practical, no-nonsense map on how to get there.”
This (often) caftan clad, pint-sized, slender fashion guru is responsible for persuading many a celebrity into a couture gown (plus concealed body-shaping underwear), and oversized shades and floaty caftans or maxi dresses when off duty. She extols the virtues of remaining glamorous whatever the occasion and encourages her readers to take risks with fashion to glam up their lifestyle.
The Teenage Fashion Queen
Style A To Zoe also provides an insight into Zoe’s life and how she became a darling of the red-carpet set, working, at one time or another, with numerous high-profile celebrities such as Nicole Ritchie, Mischa Barton, Demi Moore, Jennifer Garner, Cameron Diaz, and Jessica Simpson.
Originally from New York, Rachel Zoe Rosenweig showed an interest in fashion from a very early age and garnered fashion memorabilia and edgy outfits like other girls collected dolls. Growing up in the New Jersey suburbs, as a young girl, her first purchases of a $200 mink coat (lying to her mother about the cost) and a Louis Vuitton messenger bag, gave this teenage fashion queen her first taste of designer glamour. She has never looked back since.
Success as a Celebrity Stylist
Having majored in sociology and psychology at George Washington University, at the tender age of twenty-one, she started working for YM magazine and became a successful fashion editor. She then branched out into celebrity styling, becoming a freelance personal stylist ,and later moved to L.A. In addition to dressing of the most famous women of the entertainment world, Zoe is exremelly well connected, and can count fashion designers such Valentino, Frank Zambrelli, Alberta Ferretti and Diane Von Furstenberg amongst her many friends. These have also contributed to her book, along with a number of Hollywood celebrities.
A Glamorous Style Guide
In her book, Zoe professes to be influenced by the clean, simple lines of vintage Halston, but also reveals some of her weakeness for "excessories," piling on the fashion accessories such as snake bangles and leopard print carves and belts. Style A To Zoe is an inspiritation for those who want to update their look and gain an interesting insight to the world of Hollywood glamor.
With its glossy color illustrations,sketches, and hardback cover, this style guide is more of a coffee-table book. In addition to fashion tips, is it is also jam-packed with useful hints on beauty, hair care, and creating a glamorous home. One annoying thing, however, is its lack of a comprehensive index, making it difficult to refer quickly to a particular point.
