Top 50 Rachel Zoe Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Style is a way to say who you are without having to speak.”

— Rachel Zoe

2. “You don’t have to be famous to live out your own red carpet moment.”

— Rachel Zoe

3. “It’s better to have fewer things of quality than too much expendable junk.”

— Rachel Zoe

4. “In my mind, being overdressed is not a bad thing at all. What’s the worst case scenario? That you are the best-dressed person in the room? Who cares!”

— Rachel Zoe

5. “I always say that I don’t like it when people follow trends too much, just because it is on the runway. I think what you wear really does need to reflect what your own personal style is.”

— Rachel Zoe

6. “I think every woman should have leopard, but not every woman will wear leopard. You have to have courage to wear leopard.”

— Rachel Zoe

7. “I see BOLD accessories as a woman’s armor.”

— Rachel Zoe

8. “I’m a Virgo and I’m more – I don’t want to say ‘negative’ – but I’m the girl who thinks no one’s coming to my birthday party, no one’s buying my clothes, no one’s reading my book, no one’s watching my show – that’s just how I think.”

— Rachel Zoe

9. “I’m not trying to set the world on fire; I just want to make really beautiful clothes that women want to wear, can afford, and can really see themselves in.”

— Rachel Zoe

10. “Picking your favourite look is like picking your favourite child! I get so emotionally attached to each one.”

— Rachel Zoe

11. “You can’t get dressed without good hair.”

— Rachel Zoe

12. “Just throw me in my coffin now with these earrings on.”

— Rachel Zoe

13. “Accessories are everything. To me, they’re more important than the clothes.”

— Rachel Zoe

14. “I am a child of the ’70s, so I love classic rock – Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Van Morrison, and I also love Coldplay.”

— Rachel Zoe

15. “I love Fall Fashion Week because it means lots of layering, long sweaters and vintage coats.”

— Rachel Zoe

16. “I would do fragrance. I’m a fragrance fanatic.”

— Rachel Zoe

17. “The worst thing you could ever get is people who think they know everything.”

— Rachel Zoe

18. “I always carry a Tom Ford lipstick and Tachta face blotters to get me through the day.”

— Rachel Zoe

19. “My dad is an unbelievable entrepreneur who balanced his life as a father and a president of two very successful companies.”

— Rachel Zoe

20. “Here’s my rule about shoes, buy them.”

— Rachel Zoe

21. “As far as I can remember, every dime I ever had went to something extravagant. I would rather spend more, buy fewer items and have them forever.”

— Rachel Zoe

22. “Every other day there’s something – I’m dealing drugs, I’m starving people. I have never done a drug in my life.”

— Rachel Zoe

23. “I would wear a turban to Whole Foods.”

— Rachel Zoe

24. “You have to interpret what’s hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you’re not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.”

— Rachel Zoe

25. “I’m a textbook definition of that perfectionist girl who has huge expectations of herself.”

— Rachel Zoe

26. “I believe fantasy and dreaming can be made a reality. You don’t have to be rich. You don’t have to be a VIP.”

— Rachel Zoe

27. “I will always think of myself as that girl that is 22 starting and really excited about everything and wanting to be amazing at everything. I always wanted to be the best stylist. That was it.”

— Rachel Zoe

28. “Girls, to me, growing up were very, very petty and didn’t want me to succeed and didn’t want the best for me.”

— Rachel Zoe

29. “What happens style wise behind closed doors, in your home, shouldn’t be incidental. Home isn’t just where you stow your things or sack out for the night. It should be your private escape.”

— Rachel Zoe

30. “Everyone wants to be a stylist. If you know that’s your calling, then you need to intern as much a humanly possible. You need to go to fashion school if you can.”

— Rachel Zoe

31. “I don’t come from a family of slackers, but I do come from a family of doers.”

— Rachel Zoe

32. “All those things they say about a baby changing your perspective – it does!”

— Rachel Zoe

33. “I did not have a van, or wear Birkenstocks and tie-dyes.”

— Rachel Zoe

34. “I know some people say that high fashion should not be worn at synagogue. I, on the other hand, think that it is of the utmost importance that the Goldbergs from down the street see you in the new Chanel Fall 2010 Yom Kippur line.”

— Rachel Zoe

35. “I think that sexiness should be in the subtleties.”

— Rachel Zoe

36. “Every day I ask my husband, ‘Is it possible to over kiss your child?’ I literally think I kiss him 200 times in a day. It’s not normal!”

— Rachel Zoe

37. “You want to look great under your clothes and obviously without clothes.”

— Rachel Zoe

38. “When you look like you stepped out of a catalog, that’s never good. People shouldn’t succumb to trend, they should interpret trend.”

— Rachel Zoe

39. “We’ve had Audrey Hepburn, we’ve had Twiggy, we’ve had Veruschka, we’ve had Kate Moss. I’m trying to figure out why I am to blame for skinniness.”

— Rachel Zoe

40. “Truthfully, I’ve never seen myself as being too thin. Sometimes I’ll look at photos and be like, ‘Oh, that’s not a good look.’ But generally speaking, I’m not too thin.”

— Rachel Zoe

41. “Celebrities are just like us and like any of your friends. I love working with people.”

— Rachel Zoe

42. “I think in spring, we don’t want to wear makeup, we don’t want to wear a ton of clothes, we just want everything to be easier.”

— Rachel Zoe

43. “All of my clients have athletic or curvy, healthy bodies.”

— Rachel Zoe

44. “If my client calls me and says, ‘I’m going to a friend’s premiere,’ I’ll say, ‘Come over and let’s do something cute.’ And I won’t bill them for that.”

— Rachel Zoe

45. “I’m not a tough boss in that I don’t raise my voice, I don’t freak out, and I don’t have a temper most of the time.”

— Rachel Zoe

46. “My basics are black, white, or neutral, and I’ll wear a ton of jewelry or carry a brightly colored bag.”

— Rachel Zoe

47. “I keep saying I’m going to cut back on styling, but it’s hard to give up.”

— Rachel Zoe

48. “I started styling people when I was just eight years old, without even knowing what a stylist was.”

— Rachel Zoe

49. “No one wants to stay in the tabloids. But it’s actually not a terrible place to start.”

— Rachel Zoe

50. “Sexiness should not be overt. Something shapeless that drapes across your hip, hangs off the shoulder; something that cowls in the front, drapes low in the back, that’s sexy.”

— Rachel Zoe