Rachel Zoe, Who Made Stylists Into Celebrities, Is Back on Reality TV

Rachel Zoe says she never meant for fame — “accidentally famous,” she called it — as she prepared in a Mercer Hotel room for the Michael Kors show at Lincoln Center, swathed in a white robe, under a ring light, with racks of dresses and vertiginous heels nearby.

She is widely credited as the first celebrity stylist, a profile cemented by The Rachel Zoe Project, which began on Bravo in 2008. Ms. Zoe ended that series in 2013 after the birth of her first son, then focused on motherhood, a now-defunct ready-to-wear line and building a brand that today licenses some 40 products sold on Amazon and at stores like TJ Maxx, Marshalls and HomeGoods.

Ms. Zoe has returned to television as a cast member on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills — no longer an executive producer, she agreed to join as her long marriage to Rodger Berman was ending.

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