Rachel Zoe

Nonton Rachel Zoe di AXN memunculkan banyak bayangan imajiner yang mungkin bisa dinikmati industri kreatif di Indonesia bertahun-tahun yang akan datang.  Apa pasal?  menghidupkan industri kreatif tidaklah mudah, banyak hal yang harus dibenahi, dari hulu hingga ke hilir.  Mulai dari pembenahan sikap dan integritas semua pihak terhadap hak kekayaan intelektual hingga ke akar permasalahan utama yakni - perut -

Jika industri kreatif sudah terbenahi, lapangan pekerjaan akan muncul dengan sendirinya, yang diisi oleh orang-orang berkompeten di bidangnya.  Tengok saja, seorang artis seperti Anne Hathaway, mempunyai agen, asisten pribadi, dan lain sebagainya, yang tentu saja banyak tenaga kerja terserap di dalamnya. 

By the way, lepas dari itu semua, hal yang dilakukan Rachel Zoe untuk menyiapkan busana dan asesoris Anne Hathaway, yang terdiri dari dua gaun, yakni gaun red carpet dan gaun untuk sesi menari berpasangan dengan Hugh Jackman.  Rachel Zoe dan tim-nya memilih gaun dari Armani Prive yang wow banget.  hasilnya ...  sempat bingung dengan model ekor dari gaun armani prive ini, (yang toh akhirnya tidak digunakan), akhirnya Anne Hathaway tampil memesona baik di red carpet maupun di sesi menari berpasangan dengan Hugh Jackman.

sedikit kisah dari Rachel Zoe berikut ini cuplikannya

From $18,000 a year to $10,000 per job: The new issue of The Hollywood Reporter details her extraordinary ascent from stylist to star to brand name.

 

Five days after the curtain has dropped on the 83rd Academy Awards, the postshow congratulatory orchids are still arriving at Rachel Zoe’s home every few hours. The latest: a 4-footer from Giorgio Armani with a handwritten note thanking the celebrity stylist for showcasing the night’s “most spectacular red-carpet look … on stage.”

 

The revered designer is referring to Anne Hathaway’s off-the-shoulder cobalt-blue satin Armani Privé gown, No. 5 of eight total looks the actress wore on Oscar night (including a vintage Valentino on the red carpet, a stunning white, strapless Grecian Givenchy Haute Couture for the opening number and a metallic-beaded,  flapper-style Oscar de la Renta that begged to be shimmied) all curated by Team Zoe, a seven-member army that tends to their commanding officer’s every need.

 

Despite finding success among the masses, she still has the respect of fashion elites. “Rachel Zoe has become a great, great star,” Vogue’s Andre Leon Talley says. “She’s as famous, if not more famous, than the people she dresses. I only wish I could have Rachel Zoe’s salary, her house and a TV show.”

Straddling both ends of the fashion spectrum is Zoe’s specialty. “No one wants to stay in the tabloids, but it’s actually not a terrible place to start,” she once said. Indeed, getting her start outfitting the likes of Nicole Richie and Lindsay Lohan not just for movie premieres and parties but also for their afternoon Starbucks runs handed Zoe an express pass to fashion VIP, where she was met with skepticism. But there’s no doubt tabloid culture had a direct impact on the public’s sense of style. Who can forget the oversized sunglasses every starlet wore circa 2005? Or the Nouveau Boho uniform of hobo bag, maxi dress and wedge platforms?

“The secret to Rachel’s success is the absolute clarity of her taste and her uncynical passion for fashion,” Harper’s Bazaar editor in chief Glenda Bailey says. “You can immediately identify a Rachel Zoe look — retro, glamorous, bohemian — but she still makes her clients look like individuals. It comes as no surprise that Rachel has her own brand, because her best advertisement is herself.”

Yards away on her table is a reminder of just how visible she is: a 6-inch-high stack of magazines — People, US Weekly, Life & Style and the like — marked up with colored stickies pointing to Zoe clients. In this line of work, validation still comes in column inches, though having been on the receiving end of her share of gossip items — scrutinizing everything from her weight (too little) to her fee (too much) — a simple credit properly identifying the designer can sometimes be enough. And on page after page, the results of her work are there, from virtually every red carpet, every week.

So does Zoe feel powerful? “No,” she says with an audible snort. “Oprah is power — she is everything. Martha, she can make a house out of a piece of paper. I have incredible respect for women like that because it’s not easy. People fight you every step of the way — they pull you down as soon as you get up. And the reality is, it’s harder for women. It’s like if a girl has fooled around with a lot of guys, she’s a slut. But if guys do it, they’re cool.”