Rachel Zoe created her style being a teenager!

Rachel Zoe has confessed that her glamorous style was created when she was a poor teenager. The fact she didn’t have much money forced her to make up ideas on how to dress nicely but spend little.

The answer was easy and Rachel understood that the best and most affordable style for her was vintage.

She says:

As soon as I was old enough to shop I fell in love with vintage. When I was younger, as a teenager, I used to ask myself how I could get this glamour for, like, not thousands and thousands of dollars.

Ultimately, that answer kept coming back up as vintage. How could I get those vintage fur coats, that peasant dress or kaftan. That’s when I fell in love with vintage. For me, it became the way that I could get that unique piece that no one else could have.”

Her inspiration came from fashion of the 60s and 70s. This is how she explains this:

Who are my style icons? I think it has always been the icons from the 60s and 70s. You know, Twiggy, Edie Sedgwick, Penelope Tree. They were all so glamorous in such an effortless way. With all the tassled hair and sequins and Yves Saint Laurent – I just became obsessed. Fashion is moving into the 80s. Me? I’m staying in the 60s!”

Now Rachel is a successful stylist herself and has helped stars such as Mischa Barton, Nicole Richie and Keira Knightley to develop their chic wardrobes. She wrote a book called ‘Style A to Zoe: The Art of Fashion, Beauty and Everything Glamour’ which immediately became a best seller as well as her own reality TV show, ‘The Rachel Zoe Project’.

She said:

It’s hard every single day. I find it a constant struggle to balance building the brand to where I want it to be and maintaining my clients to keep styling.”

Yes, poverty sometimes is a good thing, it makes people who they are!

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