By Drew Grant 9/23/11 9:04am

Fashion

Joe Zee, chicken-eater

Joe Zee Gets Whole Roast Chicken as Gucci Perk

Joe Zee is fashion director at Elle, and apparently one of the nicest guys in the business (even if more people recognize him more from The City or Project Runway than his own All On the Line). So it should be no surprise that he’s lavished with gifts wherever he goes…especially during Fashion Week. Though Gucci might have outdone itself with its present to Mr. Zee when they caught sight of him front-row during their Milan event this week. Read More

By Kat Stoeffel 8/29/11 2:15pm

Self-possessed

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Elle Creative Director Joe Zee Is Good at Everything, Says Joe Zee

Joe Zee and his violin were featured in “Posessed,” the Times Sunday Styles feature that gives free, tightly controlled publicity to bold face names with projects to promote (see Rose McGowan, Conan the Barbarian),  and Stephen Adly Guirgis, The Motherfucker With The Hat) under the pretense of writing about their favorite objets.

Joe Zee, whose Sundance reality show “All on the Line” starts up again in November, would like to tell us about his violin because it’s a symbol of how he’s good at… everything.

“I was good at everything,” said Mr. Zee. “I was like Tracy Flick, sitting in the front row and raising my hand for everything. English, math — anything with a textbook. I was good at consuming knowledge. And I was great at home ec!”  Read More

By Joe Pompeo 2/16/09 3:59pm

Calvin Klein’s Triumphant Return to New York

There we were, lurking the front row about 20 minutes before the start of the Calvin Klein men’s show at CK Inc.’s West 39th Street headquarters on Sunday afternoon, when a storm of flashbulbs signaled what appeared to be the arrival of the first A-List celebrity. Um, is that Kurt Cobain?! the Daily Transom wondered Read More

By Irina Aleksander 7/24/08 4:04pm

Stylista Judge Joe Zee Talks About His Role

Elle creative director Joe Zee will be making his reality TV debut this fall as a judge on CW’s Stylista, a show in which fashion hopefuls will compete to become senior fashion news director Anne Slowey’s assistant at Elle. Created by producers of Project Runway and America’s Next Top Model, Stylista promises to a be Read More