Joe Zee

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| name = Joe Zee

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1968|11|23}}

| birth_place = Hong Kong

| occupation = {{Hlist|Stylist, journalist, producer}}

| spouse = Rob Younkers

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Joe Zee (born November 23, 1968){{cite web|url=http://www.fashionweekdaily.com/chic-report/article/happy-birthday-joe-zee|title=The Daily Celebrates Joe Zee's Birthday|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120317234530/http://www.fashionweekdaily.com/chic-report/article/happy-birthday-joe-zee|archive-date=2012-03-17|url-status=dead}} 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.{{cite web|last1=Clehane|first1=Diane|title=So What Do You Do, Joe Zee, Creative Director, Elle?|url=http://www.mediabistro.com/So-What-Do-You-Do-Joe-Zee-Creative-Director-Elle-a10250.html|website=MediaBistro|publisher=MediaBistro Inc.|access-date=4 November 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141105005104/http://www.mediabistro.com/So-What-Do-You-Do-Joe-Zee-Creative-Director-Elle-a10250.html|archive-date=5 November 2014|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}} He became editor-in-chief and executive creative officer of Yahoo! Style in April 2014.{{cite web|last1=Duggan|first1=Leeann|title=Joe Zee Leaves Elle For Yahoo|url=http://www.refinery29.com/2014/04/66192/joe-zee-joins-yahoo|website=Refinery 29|access-date=4 November 2014}}{{cite magazine| url=http://wwd.com/business-news/media/joe-zee-to-join-yahoo-7641758/| title=Joe Zee Exiting Hearst to Join Yahoo| first=Alexandra| last=Steigrad| date=April 14, 2014| magazine=Women's Wear Daily| access-date=February 23, 2017}} He resigned from Yahoo in June 2017.{{Cite web|url=https://fashionista.com/2017/06/joe-zee-leaves-yahoo-style|title=Joe Zee Is Out at Yahoo Style|last=Bobila|first=Maria|website=Fashionista|date=27 June 2017 |language=en|access-date=2019-01-10}}

Career

In the mid-1990s, Zee met stylist Lori Goldstein at an Allure party, and soon became her assistant.{{cite news| url=http://schoolofstyle.com/blog/career-timeline-lori-goldstein/.html | work= School of Style Blog | title= Career Timeline: Lori Goldstein}} {{dead link|date=February 2019}}

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."{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/17/fashion/17upclose.html | work=The New York Times | first=Alex | last=Williams | title=Fashion's Ambassador: Joe Zee | date= March 16, 2011}}

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.{{cite web|last=Feiereisen |first=Sharon |url=http://www.thefashionspot.com/runway-news/news/161092-joe-zee-is-back-with-new-reality-tv-show#ixzz1LuOUPeEL |title=Joe Zee is Back with New Reality TV Show |publisher=The Fashion Spot |date=2011-03-29 |access-date=2012-08-04}}

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.{{cite news| url=https://www.businessoffashion.com/community/people/joe-zee/.html |work=business of fashion|title= Joe Zee BoF 500 the People Shaping the Global Fashion Industry}}

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.{{Cite book|title=That's What Fashion Is: Lessons and Stories From My Nonstop, Mostly Glamorous Life in Style|last=Zee|first=Joe|publisher=Thomas Dunne Books|year=2015|isbn=9781250042941|edition=First|location=New York|oclc=910073110|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/thatswhatfashion0000zeej}}

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|date=February 2020}}In 2015, he released his book That's What Fashion Is: Lessons and Stories from My Nonstop, Mostly Glamorous Life in Style.{{Cite book|title=That's What Fashion Is: Lessons and Stories From My Nonstop, Mostly Glamorous Life in Style|last=Zee|first=Joe|publisher=Thomas Dunne Books|year=2015|isbn=9781250042941|edition=First|location=New York|oclc=910073110|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/thatswhatfashion0000zeej}}

Personal life

Zee is married to Rob Younkers, host of Logo TV's Secret Guide to Fabulous.{{cite magazine|url=http://www.people.com/article/joe-zee-is-engaged-rob-younkers |title=Joe Zee and Rob Younkers Are Engaged! |magazine=People |date=December 4, 2015 |access-date=February 17, 2016 }}