Rachel Zoe on Her ‘Limitless Journey Disasters’—and Her High Journey Suggestions

Rachel Zoe made a reputation for herself as a star stylist within the early aughts with a consumer roster that included Nicole Richie, Lindsay Lohan, Kate Hudson, and Jennifer Garner, whereas additionally establishing her iconic boho-chic aesthetic. She went on to reshape the style business, had a Bravo present, The Rachel Zoe Venture, and based The Rachel Zoe Assortment and Rachel Zoe Ventures. And although numerous her profession as a stylist concerned packing beautiful designer robes for her shoppers and organizing them for journeys, in terms of packing for herself, she admits she struggles. The brand new castmate on The Actual Housewives of Beverly Hills spoke with Journey + Leisure about how she actually travels—and the way she suits all these caftans in a suitcase. 

Zoe stated she will rely on one hand the variety of occasions she has efficiently used solely a carry-on suitcase for a visit. “If it have been as much as me, I might take every part I personal on the airplane. Admittedly, I’m an over-packer,” she instructed T+L. “It is also simply being a stylist for my complete grownup life, you recognize? All I ever consider is having choices and never having the factor you need or not having the factor you want. However once I’m packing for shoppers or pals, I am very strategic, and once I’m packing for myself, I am not strategic in any respect.”

You possibly can think about that an over-packer’s worst nightmare is just not having your baggage whenever you arrive at your vacation spot. Properly, the world bought to look at Zoe have that precise subject in actual time throughout her first journey on this season of the Bravo sequence. She determined to strategically ship her baggage forward of time for a visit to Sedona, however her baggage was delayed by virtually a complete day, which meant she confirmed up within the dry warmth carrying a black suede jacket, black pants, and a black cowboy hat in 110 levels with nothing to alter into. “That was not ideally suited. Undecided what I used to be considering there,” she stated. Fortunately, her baggage made it by the following morning, and he or she was again in a white, ethereal gown. 

And that wasn’t Zoe’s first baggage mishap. “I’ve had baggage stolen, I’ve had baggage not make it. I’ve had countless journey disasters in my life, and this was extra simply wild, as a result of we’re form of in the course of nowhere, and I used to be like, okay, cool, I assume I am carrying black suede for the following three days, and it is 110 levels.”

She’s additionally had loads of objects confiscated at safety, comparable to facial merchandise: “They have been brand-new and unopened issues, and I used to be so upset!” Although even scarier was the time Zoe was getting back from Paris with plenty of baggage and was flagged by customs. “They positively needed to cease me, and so they really confiscated one thing as a result of they thought that I purchased it and was attempting to not declare it, and it really was mine. They usually held me! They might not consider me; it was terrible. It was actually terrible.”

So although she could also be an over-packer, she does have a number of nice hacks. Zoe says she tends to pack every part on skinny velvet hangers. “It is an enormous time saver. I additionally put every part in a garment bag.” One other packing hack? “I will even put plastic or some form of skinny protecting over one thing that is beaded or sequined as a result of the sequins or the beading will catch on the lace, and so they’ll catch on one another, and then you definitely take it out, and it rips.”

If it’s an merchandise that gained’t wrinkle or snag, like Zoe’s signature leather-based pants, she’ll roll them up. And she or he’s packing all of it away in Rimowa baggage, her go-to baggage model. 

As soon as she’s all packed up and on the airplane, Zoe says staying hydrated with tea is essential to her: “I drink numerous tea on the airplane, like numerous chamomile tea.” And she or he likes to maintain her pores and skin hydrated, too, saying, “I really like Barbara Sturm. I exploit numerous her serums. I am lately obsessive about Keren Bartov merchandise. I really like placing issues on my face that really feel like a defend, like a hydrating defend. I really like the Tremendous Hydrator from U Magnificence, and I additionally love the YSE Magnificence Lip Masks.”

As for sudden objects she brings on most journeys, she says a bathrobe from house is an important, particularly if she is anxious she goes to a spot that gained’t have a good gown. One other must-have merchandise? “I all the time convey an enormous fake fur or classic, even when I am going someplace scorching, as a result of I am all the time chilly! And I put on it on the airplane as a result of it looks like a blanket,” she instructed T+L.