Rachel Zoe is back!

I am so excited by this news, the Rachel Zoe Project is coming back for a second season on Bravo! That news is so bananas! For those of you who are not familiar, Rachel is a celebrity stylist for alot of hollywood a-list starlets, she has been given a lot of credit, or perhaps blame, for some of the fashion stylings of Nicole Richie and Lindsay Lohan. There have also been rumors in the past that she gave them drugs in order to keep them skinny enough to wear some of the clothes.

Her long suffering husband Brad, who seems to have lost his will to live at times and her two battling assistants round out the crew. Rachel has never met a problem that she could not turn inot an end of the world drama. You the viewer get to be there for all of it, including fashion week and the awards seasons.

Rachel has her own language including "shut it down", 'killed it" and "I die" watch just one episode and you will be sure to start using at least one of her catchphrases in your daily conversations.

and now a personal note to my friend Rachel: Rachel, I love you and your show, but just two things. First, if I dont recognize someone that you are dressing on your show , it may be kind of hrad to call her a celebrity. I know that you dress big celbrities and that they wont show up on a basic cable reality show, but dont try to pawn the nobodies who will show up as celebrities. Second: If wanted to hire a celebrity stylist, would I really want someone who went out in public dressed like that?

XOXO

Rocco Di Spirito is a media whore, and Tom Colicchio is my secret crush

We live in the era of the celebrity chef, Wolfgang Puck, Emeril, Rachael Ray, Bobby Flay, and the Food Network, etc. The worst has to be Rocco Dispirito. I was watching Top Chef on Wednesday and there he was again. It seems like every time that I turn on the TV, there is Rocco, commercials, Biggest Loser, Today show, Top Chef, advertisements, and he even had a really bad reality show, no not Dancing with the Stars, but his appearance on that only goes to Prove my point. Rocco go away, we dont need you anymore, you arent that interesting, at this point you are more well known for being on TV, than being an actual chef. The worst part was that as the guest judge for Top Chef, he got to give away copies of his signed cook book as prizes. Really?? It is a good thing that the winner got immunity, because if it had been just that damned cookbook... well I would have been in a room fulkl of knives, and someone would have been hurt. I love Bravo and I know that there is not a product placement opportunity that they won't agree to, ( I can almost hear Tim Gunn say "Loreal Paris Make-up Room and Tres-Seeme Hair Salon" in my sleep), but with Rocco it just bugged me some reason. The majority of the other guest judge chefs on Top Chef seem to be more about the cooking and less about the self promotion. And that is all that Rocco seems to be about.

Dear Producers of Top Chef, I love watching your show, and I am sad that my hometown bear Rich was eliminated so if you want to keep this viewer happy for the rest of the season, dont let Rocco anywhere near the "Top Chef Kitchen", and see if you can get Tom to do judges table shirtless, he is one sexy man. The shaved head, the eyes, the look he gives to the contestants. I know if that he just unbuttoned that shirt a few buttons we would see a sexy hairy chest. I know that he is married, but so am I.

so to recap, no more Rocco, lots more Tom

What Will Michelle Wear

Need less to say, I was very excited that Barack Obama was elected president last month. That was a good night, although the outcome of prop 8 in California dampened it a bit. My Husband and I were both sitting in front of the TV and watched his acceptance speech in front of a few hundred thousand people, and we knew that we were witnessing history. We knew that 50 years from now we would be still able to recall his historic address. So waht was my first response after the speech? What the hell is Michelle wearing? My husband agreed as well. I called my Green Party/Red State sister after the speech. I asked what she thought of the speech. Her response, what was Michelle wearing??

Michelle, I am so excited that you will be in the White House soon and that we are finally starting a new day, but please find yourself a gay or two who can check you before you go out in public. You are a new style icon and while I admire that you like to shop at J Crew and Banana Republic. It would not kill anyone to have some coutoure back in the White House, it has been a pretty off the rack building for the last 20 years or so.


Womens Wear Daily has a slideshow with a few ideas from major designers who have not necessarily been asked to submit anything to Michelle for an inaugaration dress. I like the Karl Lagerfeld and the Michael Kors most of all