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Joe Zee (born November 23, 1968) [1] is a Hong Kong-born Canadian fashion stylist, journalist, and producer, known for Entertainment Tonight (1981), FABLife (2015) and Celebrity Style Story (2012). Zee served as creative director of Elle for seven years. [2] He became editor-in-chief and executive creative officer of Yahoo! Style in April 2014. [3] [4] He resigned from Yahoo in June 2017. [5]
In the mid-1990s, Zee met stylist Lori Goldstein at an Allure party, and soon became her assistant. [6]
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—most visibly—television." [7]
Zee hosts All on the Line, a fashion series on the Sundance Channel. In each episode, Zee acts as a business consultant to a designer who is struggling. [8]
Zee was a recurring character as boss of the reality series The City . He has also appeared on episodes 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.
Zee has worked with notable photographers including Annie Leibovitz, Juergen Teller and Patrick Demarchelier. [9]
In 2010, he made an appearance on Gossip Girl as himself. In 2015, he released his book That's What Fashion Is: Lessons and Stories from My Nonstop, Mostly Glamorous Life in Style. [10]
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.[ citation needed ]In 2015, he released his book That's What Fashion Is: Lessons and Stories from My Nonstop, Mostly Glamorous Life in Style. [11]
Zee is married to Rob Younkers, host of Logo TV's Secret Guide to Fabulous. [12]