I know, I know. No one likes Rachel Zoe and no one cares about her opinions on anything. Except me! One of my closeted addictions is The Rachel Zoe Project, and I am capable of sitting around and watching like eight hours of a RZP marathon on Bravo whenever they do one. Rachel is crazy, she’s totally OCD, she’s a horrible manager and she’s a pretty horrible person to her family. But the clothes! And Rachel – even though she tends to dress some of her clients like crackheads, I never doubt that Rachel knows about the history of fashion, and that her one great passion in life is fashion. The Rachel Zoe Project’s third season begins next week, and I am so excited! Yay! Anyway, Rachel is already on promotional duties, and she’s given a decent interview to HuffPo about her favorite show (Mad Men), the first time she met Karl Lagerfeld, what she thinks is sexy, and her personal favorite celebrity style: Cameron Diaz:

Stylist Rachel Zoe fielded a range of questions on a conference call on Tuesday and she ended up discussing everything from “Mad Men” to Karl Lagerfeld to fall trends. Zoe admitted that she hardly sits down in front of the television but that if she had to style one series it would, in fact, be the AMC hit. “I’d have to say ‘Mad Men,'” she confessed. “But I wouldn’t change a thing. I think the styling is fantastic….The overall tone of it and the period it was in, it’s a period I’m a fan of.”

One reporter asked Zoe if she ever finds herself starstruck, and Zoe shared the story of when she was introduced to Karl Lagerfeld:

“I was the most starstruck the first time I met Karl and I just kind of–I couldn’t get words out. He was talking to me and I could hear him, but I wasn’t really absorbing anything. I just got so nervous that I became almost paralyzed for a minute. But I’ve met him several times since then and he’s wonderful.”

She added, “I think any of these designers, as someone who loves fashion so much, you think they are an inaccessible geniuses and you meet them and you’re just like, ‘Oh my god, they are that brilliant, they are that amazing,’ and, you know, my dreams haven’t been shattered yet.”

But someone as Zoe views as more relatable–at least style-wise–is actress Cameron Diaz. “She wears great mini dresses. She wears jeans and cute little jackets. She tends to be more casual.” Zoe explained, “I don’t think people should say, ‘Oh, only a celebrity can wear that,’ because it’s not true. I think that with what the fashion world is giving up right now at every price point, with all these fast fashion places and everything, you can pretty much find every trend everywhere within any budget. I think that’s what’s so great about the time we’re in right now.”

So what’s in for fall? According to Zoe, must-haves include a chunky knit sweater, a tailored tuxedo jacket, the perfect leather jacket, a trench coat and over-the-knee boots. And no overt sexiness. “I think that sexiness should be in the subtlety,” Zoe mused. “I don’t think people should wear dresses two sizes too small so that it’s tight and you have that much cleavage in your face. I think sexiness is better left to the imagination.”

[From HuffPo]

So basically, Rachel only is concerned with coats and boots for fall, the rest of the outfit be damned. No, she put a sweater on that list! But what about pants? A skirt? I need to know! And I find myself agreeing with Rachel that dressing with an eye on not being overtly sexy is much better, but in Rachel’s case, I think it’s a necessity. Whenever she tries to show some skin, her bony, anorexic little body freaks everyone out, including the people who work for her and her husband.

Header: Rachel on June 7, 2010. Credit: WENN.