Rachel Zoe's New Project: ShoeDazzle Chief Stylist

Nikki Novak here for Young Hollywood in Shoe Heaven at ShoeDazzle headquarters. We're here to talk to their new Chief Stylist, Rachel Zoe. I need to know how to get inside that box. I am here with Rachel Zoe. First of all, I'd love this is like Carrie Bradshaw's lit up closet from Sex and the City.

I mean it's kind of um I sort of have the best job in the world, don't I?

You do. Chief Stylist, congratulations.

Thank you very much.

So I know that you're sort of like you're here to choose and do the edit, but you're also here you've said to inspire women to take more chances with shoes. Right.

Yes. Yes. When I had my first meeting with ShoeDazzle, we kind of talked about I don't know, just our overall goals, our overall way of thinking, and it was so similar just how we feel that all women, you know, should and can live glamorously every day and how easy that can be. That's always what I've set out to do for women is try and make their lives easier and here with ShoeDazzle, it's sort of like, you know, it's so much fun. It's like playing dress up all the time.

Oh, what I love about what I'm seeing is I'm not a practical shoe shopper. I never buy the basic black booty that I'm supposed to buy. I buy the hot pink with the studs.

Oh, I like that about you then. That's really fun. Then we need to go shopping together, because I'm never the practical thing.

So, for somebody out there that is the opposite that always buys like the practical shoe that will go with everything. Right. Like a lot of color. Yeah. What sort of from the Spring collection would you sort of say inspires you the most? Is it a pastel that we're sort of seeing?

I mean I think you need to have something with studs. Okay. You have to have something with metallics. Um, I think embrace uh pastels for sure. Studs are everything right now. So I think there's there's forms of studs. There's tiny little studs that are kind of speckled and then there's kind of big pyramid studs that are a bit more kind of edgy and tough. So there there's kind of something for everybody in that trend. The Mary Jane, you can never go wrong with. Gladiators, sandals, you can never go wrong with. Um, have fun with color.

Well, we saw a lot of color on the Golden Globes carpet. We're sort of going back to pastel, and I know some of the Spring collection sort of has that pastel. Are we going to still see that in the Oscars, do you think?

Um, I think so, sure. I think people really like to stand out on the carpet most of the time. And I think with a pastel, I don't know. It's it's funny. I have this funny relationship with pastels. It's like I'm a little scared of them and apprehensive and then

Why?

I like strong, bold color. More than I like a baby soft color. And at the same time, whenever I see it, it's so fresh and new to me, that I'm like I start to embrace it more and I actually get to really love it. So we're going to see more of that. We're going to see more white.

Are we going to see there's a lot of things. I love seeing white. I never get sick of seeing white.

I don't either. So, um, I think white on a carpet as long as it's not in any way bridal, I I love it.

A lot of, you know, actresses are now going back to sort of the old Hollywood look.

I know. Which I know you love. I love it.

Do you have an all-time favorite carpet look?

Sophia Loren, Audrey Hepburn, um, Brigitte Bardot is my ultimate icon. Grace Kelly. I mean, but I also have seventies icons. Diane von Furstenberg, Iman. And by the way, they still are today. My heroes, by the way, which is kind of amazing.

Right. What's the sort of most starstruck you've been in meeting, like either one of your design icons or a

Designers was the first time I met Karl Lagerfeld. I mean I literally was like I was shaking. I was in like a cold sweat.

What did you say to him?

Um, not a lot. I actually didn't say a lot. And

Did he talk a lot?

He said a lot of things that I I almost like couldn't hear. I was just kind of looking at him and kind of just trying not to fall. I would say the only time I really ever went up to an actor, like celebrity was um Sophia Loren. I literally like ran up to her and I was like, I'm so sorry, I'm not crazy, but I just have to say hello and you're my hero, and if I don't say hi, I'm just going to hate myself forever.

And what did she say back?

She couldn't have been more incredible. She just kind of looked at me like oh. You know, and she was like, hello. I mean I feel like she's probably so used to that. Right. Um but I think when it comes across in a genuine way, when people aren't just saying it.

Yeah.

I was trying to not sound like a crazy fan, you know. So.

So your collection. Yes. There are some pastels in your collection this spring.

There are. But again, I mean it's one of those things I have this funny relationship. And I find that when I when I design with pastels and I look at it, I'm like is it bridesmaids? No. It's really fresh and new and clean and pretty and feminine and so I embrace it.

And I know you wore one of your own dresses to the Globes after party.

I did. I did. Um it was funny. I was going to wear something else, and I ultimately went with that because it was incredibly comfortable.

So that's important. Still important when you're styling people, comfort is important.

I have to be. I was just tired and overworked and I just said, I want to go out and have fun and I don't want to be fussy. I don't want to be self-aware. I just want to wear something really comfortable.

And The Rachel Zoe Project is coming back.

Yes, it is.

This spring.

Yes, it is.

So I've heard there's going to be less drama. And it's going to be more sort of behind the scenes what your life is like as being a mom and being, you know.

Yeah. I'm really proud of it this season, to be honest. Um I I really It's it's a much more savvy, intelligent show that I think people will enjoy watching for the right reasons. Not because they want to see petty drama but because they actually want to see sort of inside business and fashion and

And what else

dynamic within a company and and but really how people should behave within a company.

Okay. And last but not least, we want to know the recipe for your salami. Are you going to share it?

Never.

Because I've heard it's like crack. I've heard it's fantastic.

Listen, this is what they say. Um Joey can speak to it. Every time I make one, I swear to God I leave the room for a minute and I come back and there's one piece. So now I started making like three at a time.

So you'll tell Young Hollywood the recipe, right?

I don't know. I can. It's from my grandma to my mom, to me and

Oh, it's a family recipe.

It's it's weirdly simple, but incredibly delicious. It can't be made on that.

Well, thanks for chatting with us. We'll bribe you for that later. For sure. And for some fabulous ShoeDazzle shoes. Thank you so much.

Thank you. Nice to see you. Thanks.