Pretty On The Outside

The very pregnant yet pin-thin Rachel Zoe.

Are you watching the Rachel Zoe project on Bravo?  The show, now in its fourth season, typically follows the styling phenom as she creates red carpet looks for the likes of Demi Moore, Cameron Diaz, Anne Hathaway, and countless others as well as styling magazine editorials and ad campaigns, and and and creating/ launching her own fashion label.  Busy girl!  This season she's 20 months pregnant yet still looks like she weighs in at 80 lbs.  Ok, maybe 9 months prego and 85 lbs.  In my opinion the bit of weight she gained during her pregnancy really suits her well.  She's regularly way, way, way too thin and hopefully she'll keep some of the baby poundage on as it does favor her.  Really quick, the above illustration started out a little less flattering.....  I'd made her face a lot rougher and more weathered but as I started to color it, I kept smoothing out the surface and I may have gone too far.  ??? She's grown on me this season being pregnant and actually eating and I suppose I wanted to do a more flattering look. :)

Anyway, Rachel isn't a one woman show and that's really what I want to discuss.....

I'm on Bravo's website! You'll find my gallery on the Watch What Happens L!ve page.

Oh my goodness gracious.........  Bravo has given me my own gallery with 44 images of my drawn and painted Bravo-lebrities.  Please click here to have a look.  I'm having a hard time finding the right words to express my overwhelming gratitude......  I'll simply say thank you to Bravo and all those involved in making this happen.  I feel like I should be wearing a crown, clutching a bouquet of red roses, and waving as I walk to end of a stage while mascara-soaked tears stream down my face.  That might happen later this afternoon.  :) 

Thank you again Bravo! 

Oh, one other thing..... I have a facebook page if you'd like to like it please go here.  :)

Rachel Zoe is literally bananas. Literally.

In honor of tonight's return of the Rachel Zoe show on Bravo, I've created this bananas illustration of the styling whirlwind wearing, well.... a banana.  

Is she having a moment in this?  Does it make you want to die?  Does it makes you hungry?  This gown may be one of a kind but you can own a print of this.  At least 15 of you can as that's how many are signed, numbered, and available on my etsy shop.

I am quite fond of her show and happy it's returning.  I've missed that eternally blushing Brad too.  Welcome back!

Previous show recaps can be seen here.

Brad Goreski from The Rachel Zoe Project is looking good!

I was zipping around the web this morning and stumbled across some rather playfully appealing photos of Brad from bravo's reality TV show The Rachel Zoe Project.  Brad is the adorable assistant to the pin-thin stylist Rachel Zoe who's fond of wearing bow ties, quick to blush, and will cry if pushed too hard.  I share those last two traits by the way.  As I watched the premier of her show back in September of 2008, I did this quick (5 minute) sketch of him.

The appealing shots of him today came courtesy of photographer Terry Richardson's blog.

Here's a photo of Brad, Terry, and Rachel.

The photo which has forever changed the way I view Brad is after the jump.....

The Rachel Zoe Project: Addicted to Sunglasses and Owned by Starbucks?

Rachel Zoe and I live in sunny and fashionable Southern California.  Unfortunately not together.  I'd love to call her killer house my home.  Being a So Cal resident, I understand the necessity of sunglasses and the desire to have them be stylish.  What I don't get is wearing sunglasses inside.  Inside a home, a store, an office, etc.  Not Inside!  It's well.... silly.  And silly is not stylish.  As I watched the finale of The Rachel Zoe Project, aside from seeing all the over the top Starbucks placement, I was fascinated that they were all wearing sunglasses inside Rachel's home.  Did Bravo have to cut off the top of her home in order to get camera angles right?  That's the only conceivable excuse for all the inside the home sunglasses abuse that was going on.
Here's what I'm talking about.....

Are Rachel and that cute gay guy sitting on a bed outside?  No, they're in her bedroom!

Is Taylor throwing a fit out on the patio?  No, she's going crazy at the dining room table!

Is Rachel livid over heel pads outside in her drive way?  No, she's in her office!

Rachel wants you to remember her show is owned by Starbucks.  Yes!

Rachel Zoe really, really likes Starbucks.

I am sticking by my recent assertion that The Rachel Zoe Show is somehow owned by Starbucks.  Why else would there be a Starbucks cup with the logo aimed perfectly towards the camera in most scenes?  All I focus on anymore is trying to spot the darn Starbucks cup.  Oh sure there's plenty of other fluffy fun stuff to enjoy as I scour the screen for a to go cup like: Taylor's endless bitching, Brad's forehead constantly wrinkling in disbelief, that cute New York makeup artist, Rachel's love of purses which are bigger than her and grossly her affinity towards fur, as well as her husband Roger who seems completely out of place on that show.  I think it's just a matter of time until Rachel wears a "I Love Starbucks" baby tee or Taylor in one of her confessional rants about Brad will drop in that she lives for Starbucks.  By the way, I love in the sneak peak for next week's episode when Taylor throws down the ultimatum that, "It's either Brad or I."  Which should be, "It's either Brad or me." :)  But I digress.
What was the point of this posting...... oh yeah, Starbucks owns this show and as such I'm sure in the final episodes we'll see Rachel in a kicky Starbucks cup party dress. 

A Venti glamorous gown!

Photo of Rachel's face, hand, and fur from Bravo with a googled Starbucks cup and lots and lots of photoshop fun.    

The Rachel Zoe Project: Owned by Starbucks?

When it comes to most Reality TV programs, I'd say probably less than half of what's going on is truly reality.  The rest of it would be scripted and creative editing.  After watching the third episode of The Rachel Zoe Project last night, I'm going to say it's 100% scripted and its sole purpose is to sell Starbucks drinks. 

Crazy?  Perhaps.  As I watched last night's show I couldn't help but notice the heavy, make that Venti, Starbucks placement.  Now I've got nothing against Starbucks.... far from it.  I'm drinking a tall coffee right now and the cup's logo is facing my computer screen out of respect for this posting.

I wonder if the relentless product bombardment helped Starbucks today?  Did they notice a spike in unbelievably skinny women in over-sized accessories this morning?  Hmmmm.....

Were there more cute gay stylists/ hair & makeup artists/ assistants than usual stopping by Starbucks to get the latest must have accessory after last night's show.  That's it--- this season's must have item isn't an orange faux fur vest or horn rimmed glasses.  N0!  The all the rage--- rush out and get it right now--- it goes with everything adornment is a Starbucks coffee cup.  Thank you Rachel Zoe.  You've validated my addiction.

So I got out my Canon PowerShot (which sounds like a gay porn title) and documented just some of the Starbucks drink placements.   

The Rachel Zoe Project.

Wonder if any of you saw the premier of Bravo's The Rachel Zoe Project Tuesday night?  After catching the series sneak preview a few weeks ago, I knew I had to give the first show a watch.  I want to say straight away, that usually when I do my TIVO, wine, and line drawings, I spend about 15 to 30 minutes on each sketch.  But as I watched this collection of mostly unlikable people, I decided to spend no more than five minutes on each depiction.  That's all I could take.

Meet Rachel Zoe:

Oh NO! It's Rachel Zoe!

I have had all kinds of jobs: hand model, foot model, underwear model, fitness model, spokes model, and of course role model.  Ok, none of that's true.  I did have a restaurant job though years ago and my favorite person who worked there was a man named Alfonzo.  Alfonzo was a short, heavy set, mid fifties mexican gentleman who worked in the kitchen and barely spoke english.  When he would get mad at me for whatever reason he'd call me a Chupacabra.  I had no idea what that was or what it meant, but I liked the sound of that word.  One day I asked him to draw me a Chupacabra and I wish I'd kept it.  He sketched a hairy, big eyed, creature with fangs.  I hugged him and asked that he never call anyone else that but me.  So I've always had special love for that word. 
Whenever I read about Rachel Zoe, stylist to the undead stars, she is often referred to as a Chupacabra.  I really don't know much about that woman except that her clients are usually very skinny and she often looks mad in  photos.  Just knowing that she has been given that title was enough to make me want to draw her.  I give you....... Chupacabra Stylist.

Pen and ink on paper with photoshop color on her eyes.