Joe Zee (born November 23, 1968) is a Hong Kong-born Canadian fashion stylist, journalist, producer, businessman and actor, known for Entertainment Tonight (1981), FabLife (2015) and Celebrity Style Story (2012). Zee served as creative director of Elle for seven years. He became editor-in-chief and executive creative officer of Yahoo! Style in April 2014.
Early life
Zee was born in Hong Kong and moved to Toronto at the age of one where he grew up. He stepped into fashion in 1990, at age 22 and ultimately moved to New York City enrolling at the Fashion Institute of Technology.
Career
In the mid 1990's Joe Zee meets stylist Lori Goldstein whose work is very iconic at an Allure party. He becomes her assistant and according to Joe, their meeting went something like this: “I said, ‘I have to work for you. I’m your biggest fan. I’m obsessed with your work. I love the last story you did’ â€" it was for Italian Glamour, with the girls in the bathing suits and knit hats with the blow-up pool. It must’ve been ’91 or ’92. That shoot was iconic for me.†â€" from Elle.com. This is how he got his start in the fashion field after attending school.
He was described in a New York Times profile as a leader in the mass market and digital transformation of fashion: "a chatty and approachable ambassador of fashion who has aggressively thrust himself in front of hoi polloi using Twitter, blogs, v-logs and â€" most visibly â€" television."
He was a recurring character as boss of the reality series The City.
Zee hosts All on the Line, a fashion series on the Sundance Channel. In each episode, Zee acts a business consultant to a designer who is struggling. He appeared on an episode of Ugly Betty, Mistresses, and General Hospital as himself. He was one of the co-hosts of the ABC daytime talk show The Fab Life.
In 2013 Goldstein who Zee once worked under as an assistant now Reports to him as Fashion Editor at Large for Elle magazine for which he is now the creative director of the publication.
Zee has worked with some of the fashion world’s most important image-makers, including Annie Leibovitz, Juergen Teller and Patrick Demarchelier. Zee also has versatility, offering his styling expertise to brands from Chanel to Banana Republic.
He is the author of the forthcoming book That's What Fashion Is: Lessons and Stories from My Nonstop, Mostly Glamorous Life in Style (2015).
In 2016, he was one of the guest judges in the final of Miss USA 2016 in T-Mobile Arena, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States.
Currently his clothing line "Styled by Joe Zee" can be purchased online on QVC.
Personal life
Zee is married to Rob Younkers, host of Logo TV's Secret Guide to Fabulous.
See also
- Chinese Americans in New York City
References
External links
- https://twitter.com/mrjoezee
- Joe Zee on Charlie Rose
- Joe Zee on IMDb
- New York Times profile, 17 March 2011h
- Zee_Met_gala_2015.jpeg
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