Joe Zee | |
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Born |
Hong Kong |
November 23, 1968
Occupation | Fashion stylist |
Partner(s) | Rob Younkers |
Joe Zee (born November 23, 1968) is a Hong Kong-born Canadian fashion stylist, journalist, and businessman. Zee served as creative director of Elle for seven years. He became editor-in-chief and executive creative officer of Yahoo! Style in April 2014.
Zee was born in Hong Kong and moved to Toronto at the age of one where he grew up. He stepped into fashion in 1990, at age 22 and ultimately moved to New York City enrolling at the Fashion Institute of Technology.
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."
He was a recurring character as boss of the reality series The City.
Zee hosts All on the Line, a fashion series on the Sundance Channel. In each episode, Zee acts a business consultant to a designer who is struggling. He appeared on an episode 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.
He is the author of the forthcoming book That's What Fashion Is: Lessons and Stories from My Nonstop, Mostly Glamorous Life in Style (2015).
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.