On last night’s season 2 premiere of The Rachel Zoe Project, it was a mad, catty dash to pull off head-to-toe styling for five A-list actresses for the 2009 Golden Globes. I could have lived without Taylor and Brad schlepping their desks to a more desired floor just to prove they’d not matured beyond the age of 7, not to mention the desperate-for-a-plot inanity of Rachel and Brad mercilessly ribbing Taylor for no longer being the best human clothes hanger in the studio (congrats, Jordan). But somehow, watching Debra Messing, Demi Moore, Eva Mendes, Anne Hathaway, and Cameron Diaz stomp around that red carpet, miraculously not nude, made the rest of the show worth it! (Rachel and Rodger’s blatant Bing commercial notwithstanding.)
The most surreal part of the hour somehow wasn’t the elaborately staged “day of the Globes hustle,” so obviously filmed well after the event itself (they should really emblazon “A Rachel Zoe Dramatization” on the screen when this occurs, perhaps in fancy script surrounded by buh-nanas), nor was it when Rachel described Diaz’s pink Chanel gown, which she had altered from Karl Lagerfeld’s original runway design (pictured), “that dress was like carrying it in my womb for nine months and birthing it out the Golden Globes.” Nope, the biggest WTF moment for me was realizing I’d sprouted two tiny tears witnessing Rachel and her merry band of supplicants watching footage of the red carpet. It was a life-changing revelation to see such colorful, bejeweled proof that extreme bitch-itude totally pays off. It’s a lesson reality TV teaches us every day, but sometimes we need genuine, after-midnight, mini bundt cake-accompanying tears to let it really sink in.
I’m gonna go tell Ausiello he looks fat today. Who else watched last night’s premiere, and how many times did you die/cry?
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Taylor and Brad need to remember that it’s not their business to do what they want or to “protest” working in a space the business owner is telling them she wants to see happen. Get a clue you two! I’m sure there are many guys and gals out there who can do the job just as well, and maybe even better, then you. So shut up and deal!
I think RZ had some brass o’s to even think of asking a designer to alter a hand-made garment. But I guess a gal has to do what a gal has to do!
I want a job with Rach! All these others are BABYS! Rach..get some professionals!
I wish Bravo and EW would stop shoving this useless hag down our throats.
Just don’t watch, then. Just like I refuse to watch any “Real Housewives.
the assistant needs a hair cut!! she would be taken more serious if she could see what she is doing!!
the poster child for hunger
LOVED IT!
Taylor needs to GROW UP or SHUT UP! I’m sick of her! She needs to move on if she hates her job so much. And good luck with that, finding someone to hire her with that immature bitch-tude she has. OMG, I can’t take it. Brad is entertaining to watch, he’s funny. And Rachel Zoe, GOD, please do something with that hair! Hate it. She looks a lot older than she really is, maybe it’s time to see a plastic surgeon for some help, and stop for a moment, and put that money she spends on clothes and shoes, to the plastic surgeon!!!! I don’t think I can watch another season of this crap….
LOVED IT!
I love seeing the behind the scenes stuff. Like, who can go into a Chanel or Armani and just point dresses out and say “deliver them to my office” or go into a vintage jewelry store and point at millions of jewelry to borrow. So amazing to see. I just can’t believe how Taylor treats Rachel. She’s curses at her and treats her like she’s her subordanant. Maybe she’s just not feel appreciated like she said…but still, she needs to smile more and be nicer.
Taylor really was annoying me last night. She seemed to act as though everything revolved around her. It surprises me that Rachel puts up with how she acts.
Taylor is the most ungrateful unprofessional I have ever seen…
taylor is very immature. i wouldn’t put up with her BS if she were my employee. the bing plug…give me a break. the best part of the show was watching the golden globes part!
it was great =D
I love the show – but might have to stop watching because of Taylor! She needs to remember that a thousand girls would love her job and act PROFESSIONAL.
I was so pissed off watching Taylor and Brad whine and fight, I had to stop watching. Never have I seen two more disorganized and unappreciative “assistants” or employees in my life.
RZ is so fonie and has such a high opinion of herself and her accomplishments. Way out of proportion to reality. She needs to get over herself.
Um hello? Let me to introduce you to every fashion personality in the business. They’re all like that. Rachel Zoe is talented at her job, extremely professional, and impossibly gracious towards her whiny, bratty employees. She actually seems a touch less narcissistic than what’s the norm.
and isn’t EVA MENDES pronounced with an E not as they all were saying AVA with an A!
It’s pronounced like an “A” in spanish (all ‘E’s’ are pronounced like ‘A’s” in spanish)
So, therefore, it’s pronounced “A-va” not “Eee-va”
it’s supposed to be Eh-va.